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How to pronounce twig in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble
Type of apprehend, savvy, get the picture, grasp, grok, compass, comprehend, dig
Type Words
Synonyms branchlet, sprig
Type of branch
Has types brier, wand, withe, withy
Derivation twiggy
Type Words
Type of separate, branch, fork, furcate, ramify


The lightning bolt twigged in several directions.

Examples of twig

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They then attached these molecules to the nanotubes like pine needles on a twig.
From the newscientist.com
McTeer plays a grieving mother whom viewers quickly twig is completely deranged.
From the guardian.co.uk
A chrysalis will attach to a twig or the top of the box for about two weeks more.
From the kentucky.com
Twig anoles, as their name implies, are generally found on narrow woody surfaces.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
These birds build cup-shaped twig nests in trees, which are lined with grasses.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They would attach a piece of its fruit, together with a flower as bait, to a twig.
From the latimes.com
He gingerly lifts it from the glass enclosure in which it was posed on a twig.
From the timesunion.com
Uh, it's about to snap like a twig from 100 pounds of commemorative ornaments.
From the pe.com
The disease-causing fungus, Geosmithia, is transmitted by a small twig beetle.
From the scienceblogs.com
More examples
  • Branchlet: a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
  • Branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions"
  • Catch on: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
  • A twig is a small thin terminal branch of a woody plant. Twigs are critically important in identification of trees, shrubs and vines, especially in wintertime. The buds on the twig are an important diagnostic characteristic, as are the abscission scars where the leaves have fallen away. ...
  • This is an incomplete list of recurring segments featured on The Daily Show: Your Moment of Zen is a segment that occurs at the end of every show. The segment was introduced when the show began. In it, Kilborn would end the show and a random selection of humorous videos would be shown. ...
  • The Edge Chronicles is a young-adult fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It consists of three trilogies and three additional books. Originally published in the United Kingdom, this bestseller series has since been published in the United States, Canada and Australia as well. ...
  • Twig (ISBN 1-930900-05-8) is a 1942 book by Elizabeth Orton Jones. It features Twig, a little girl who turns a tomato can into a house for fairies.
  • Twig is an open source object database built on Google App Engine's low-level Datastore API. It is an alternative to the standard JDO and JPA interfaces, built specifically to make the most of the datastore's unique abilities such as asynchronous non-blocking operations.
  • (Twigs (play)) Twigs is a play by George Furth, with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim.