Youtube vs Twitch - What's the difference?
youtube | twitch |
(neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly itself.
* {{quote-book, 2007, title=Academic librarianship by design, author=Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank
, passage=None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,
* {{quote-book, 2008, title=Web 2.0 Heroes, author=Bradley L. Jones
, passage=There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.}}
(neologism) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on .
* {{quote-book, 2007, IPhone Fully Loaded, author=Andy Ihnatko
, passage=Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,
* {{quote-journal, 2009, title=Bring me the Horizon, journal=Revolver, date=March, author=Valerie McQueen
, passage=Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?}}
(neologism) To upload a video of something to .
* 2007 , "Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry", Guardian Unlimited , Feb 5, 2007
A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
(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.
To perform a twitch; spasm.
* (rfdate) — [http://www.mindspring.com/~randyhoward/new_page_6.htm]
* 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.
* Alexander Pope
To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
* 1995 , Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
* 2003 , Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe [http://books.google.com/books?id=tv-Noj1Fvc0C], ISBN 0802139965, page 52:
* 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:
couch grass, Elymus repens ; a species of grass, often considered as a weed.
As nouns the difference between youtube and twitch
is that youtube is (youtube) while twitch is a brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm or twitch can be couch grass, elymus repens ; a species of grass, often considered as a weed.As a verb twitch is
to perform a twitch; spasm.youtube
English
(wikipedia YouTube)Alternative forms
* youtubeNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Youtuber * YouTubularVerb
(YouTub)- The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "YouTube") ----twitch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) twicchen, from (etyl) twiccian, from (etyl) ).Noun
(es)- I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.
Derived terms
* nervous twitchVerb
- "Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?"
- to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention
- Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
- "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
- "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."
- "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. "
