Twister vs Twitter - What's the difference?
twister | twitter |
One who twists.
# One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
* Wallis
(colloquial) A tornado.
(carpentry) A girder
(dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
(British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
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, passage=“I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”}}
The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
twitter
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
* 1986 , IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)
To utter a succession of chirps.
* Gray
(transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
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To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
(neologism, Internet) To use the microblogging service .
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As a proper noun twister
is a party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in random positions without falling.As a verb twitter is
(ambitransitive|internet) to post an update to ; to twitter or tweet.twister
English
Noun
(en noun)- He, twirling his twister , makes a twist of the twine.
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "twister")Derived terms
* titty twister * tongue-twisterSee also
* dust devil * water spout * willy-willyAnagrams
* English agent nouns ----English
Noun
(en noun)- I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
- Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
Verb
(en verb)- The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
- it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me.
