v. t. | 1. | To twitch; to pull; to tweak. | |||||||||
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1. | To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me? | ||||||||||
2. | To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. | ||||||||||
n. | 1. | A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
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v. t. | 1. | To beat with twigs. |
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Verb | 1. | twig - branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions" |
2. | twig - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" |
TWIG - Tree-Walking Instruction Generator. A code generator language. ML-Twig is an SML/NJ variant. ["Twig Language Manual", S.W.K. Tijang, CS TR 120, Bell Labs, 1986]. |