Jar vs Twitch - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between jar and twitch

is that jar is to shock or surprise while twitch is to spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

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jar

English

(wikipedia jar)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of glass or clay, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.

Synonyms

* pot

Derived terms

* cookie jar * jam jar, jamjar * mason jar * spice jar

Etymology 2

Unknown; perhaps imitative.

Verb

To knock or strike sharply.

He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.

To shock or surprise.

I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn't gotten back in a car since.

To look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.

To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly.

The notes jarred on my ears.

* Shakespeare:

When such strings jar , what hope of harmony?

* Roscommon:

A string may jar in the best master's hand.

To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.

* Spenser:

When those renowned noble peers Greece / Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar .

* Milton:

For orders and degrees / Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

Noun

(en noun)

A shake.

A sense of alarm or dismay.

Discord, contention; quarrelling.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:

He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yet his peace is but continuall iarre [...].

* 1612 , John Smith, Proceedings , in Kupperman 1988, page 122:

To redresse those jarres and ill proceedings, the Councell in England altered the governement and devolved the authoritie to the Lord De-la-ware.

Synonyms

* (knock sharply) (l)

Derived terms

* (l)

Anagrams

* (l) ----

twitch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) twicchen, from (etyl) twiccian, from (etyl) ).

Noun

(es)

A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.

I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.

(informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.

(farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.

Derived terms

* nervous twitch

Verb

To perform a twitch; spasm.

* (rfdate) — [http://www.mindspring.com/~randyhoward/new_page_6.htm]

"Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?"

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

*:Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...

To jerk sharply and briefly.

to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention

* Alexander Pope

Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.

To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

* 1995 , Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:

"The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."

* 2003 , Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe [http://books.google.com/books?id=tv-Noj1Fvc0C], ISBN 0802139965, page 52:

"But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it."

* 2005 , Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time [http://books.google.com/books?id=fWLmpqL4EMsC], ISBN 1741145287, page 119:

"I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen- year-old kid. "

Usage notes

When used of birdwatchers by ignorant outsiders, this term frequently carries a negative connotation.

Derived terms

* atwitch

Etymology 2

alternate of quitch

Noun

(-)

couch grass, Elymus repens ; a species of grass, often considered as a weed.