Offshoot vs Twig - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between offshoot and twig

is that offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree while twig is a small thin branch of a tree or bush.

As a verb twig is

to beat with twigs.

offshoot

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(wikipedia offshoot) (en noun)

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

Synonyms

* spinoff

External links

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Anagrams

twig

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) twigge, from (etyl) . More at two.

Noun

(wikipedia twig) (en noun)

A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}

Derived terms

Verb

(twigg)

To beat with twigs.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) and (etyl) .

Verb

(twigg)

(colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on.

:* He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.

* {{quote-web

, date=2012-05-30 , year= , first= , last= , author=John E. McIntyre , authorlink= , title=A future for copy editors , site=Baltimore Sun citation , archiveorg= , accessdate= , passage= Well, with fewer people doing two or three times the work, you may have already twigged to this. }}

To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.

Do you twig me?

To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

* Foote

Now twig him; now mind him.

* Hawthorne

as if he were looking right into your eyes and twigged something there which you had half a mind to conceal

Etymology 3

Compare tweak.

Verb

(twigg)

(obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

(Webster 1913)