Tra từ twig - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
VERB
snap
▪ She snapped a dry twig from a juniper bush and used it to finish the tourniquet.
▪ Clean. Snap like a twig.
▪ If you do snap a twig then freeze and wait for several minutes before continuing.
▪ Aenarion's ribs snapped like twigs under the awesome stress.
▪ They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And again in what directions do the branches and smaller twigs grow?
▪ Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
▪ As in other bowerbirds, the male builds an elaborate bower of twigs and ferns and therein tries to seduce females.
▪ He found a not very effective twig and scraped.
▪ I saw a little glazed brown ring of tent caterpillar moth eggs on a chokecherry twig.
▪ Maybe in the bleak light of dawn Kathy arranged a pile of twigs on the beach.
▪ So I gradually amassed armfuls of small twigs, which I carried back to my cave.
▪ They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At last I twigged that I was pregnant
▪ It took him about two minutes to twig what I was going on about!
▪ Oh, I get it, I've twigged at last. How much do you want?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I never twigged what the gold rush was.
▪ It was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before he married her.
▪ People don't twig she's ten.

twig

I. twig¹ /twɪɡ/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[Language : Old English; Origin : twigge]
a small very thin stem of wood that grows from a branch on a tree

—twiggy adjective

II. twig² verb (past tense and past participle twigged, present participle twigging) [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
British English informal to suddenly realize something about a situation:
　 ▪ It took ages before he twigged.