kink vs twitch

kink

verb
  • To form a kink or twist. 

  • To laugh loudly. 

  • To be formed into a kink or twist. 

  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. 

noun
  • A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. 

  • A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. 

  • A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. 

  • An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. 

  • A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. 

  • Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. 

  • A person with peculiar sexual tastes. 

twitch

verb
  • To perform a twitch; spasm. 

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

  • To jerk sharply and briefly. 

  • To cause to twitch; spasm. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one. 

  • A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it. 

  • The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore. 

  • A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird. 

  • couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed) 

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