Meaning of Twiddle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slight twist with the fingers.
2. A wiggling movement.
3. A small decorative embellishment.
4. A small musical flourish.
5. A tilde.
6. A drawn line that is curvy or twisted.
7. A tiny bit.
8. A tizzy.

Equivalents

Examples

“He put⟳ away the receiver with a twiddle of pudgy fingers.”

“The hero, who must have⟳ been only a very few years older than Tom himself, gave a cursory nod and a twiddle of his fingers, then turned to his left to address Daniel Lysons who did not answer⟳ but caught Tom’s eye and raised his own⟳ eyebrow at this rudeness.”

“Why should I agree⟳ that a twiddle of skirts from right to left and pointing a toe in one direction mean⟳ “He loves me,” while the reverse twiddle and the toe pointed in the opposite direction “He loves me not”?”

“Instead, flagellar motion causes the bacterium to swim⟳ smoothly (called a run⟳), then stop⟳ and tumble (a twiddle), followed by another period of smooth swimming”

“A raised white brow in my direction, and a twiddle of the pipe stem toward the trail indicated that his wife was at our house, if that's who I was looking for.”

“A great many fidgety occupations will come⟳ to an end⟳: we shan’t put⟳ a pattern on a cloth or a twiddle on a jug-handle to sell⟳ it, but to make⟳ it prettier and to amuse ourselves and others.”

“Literally construed the Act would allow⟳ design⟳ right to be claimed in the design⟳ of an insignificant part—a mere ‘twiddle’, as it was put⟳ in argument.”

“That’s Mara’s usual line, you know⟳—three curves and a twiddle, label⟳ it “Object,” and bob’s your uncle.”

““Oh, auntie,” she exclaims, “these great Goths of Englishmen put⟳ a twiddle into the last⟳ bar of the ‘Minstrel Boy,’ just fancy that!””

“That opening little flutter down the scale evokes an atmosphere when played by the flute; on the pianoforte it is a mere twiddle.”

“With a toot on the flute and a twiddle on the fiddle, O!”

“The band came in with a basic rock arrangement, Cropper’s triplets stamped by Jackson’s metronomic snare and cymbal, and Jenkins added neat little twiddle flourishes.”

“For those places which feed⟳ input arcs leading to more than one transition, a “twiddle” symbol (e.g., ‘~’) may be used as the enabling predicate for one of the transitions.”

“The twiddle symbol indicates that a node has a particular distribution. For example, x ~ dbin(p,n) means that “x is distributed like⟳ the number⟳ of successes in n observations of a Bernoulli process⟳.” Inadvertent use⟳ of an “=” sign⟳ instead of a twiddle or an arrow is one of the most common reasons for a compilation error message.”

“It will then be seen that the inscriptions are very nearly alike, but an expert in Arabic or Vedic writing would recognize at once that they differ⟳ in more respects than in having a “twiddle too much or a twiddle too little.””

“But D’s flourish was not generally a simple curl but a twiddle, as seen in the words of (35, 37, 70, 79, 94), sealf (85, 146) and yf (95, 142); this twiddle, which also appears in the Mistress Poem (p. 256), was however not an exclusive feature of f₁ but a striking personal habit, […]”

“Professional scribes (French, Burgundian, what you will) must sometimes have⟳ spoiled a copy⟳ – duplicated a word, misplaced a twiddle.”

“Trying to tune⟳ in on your own⟳ face⟳ color is a bit like⟳ that: a twiddle too red, a twiddle too pale, and the whole image goes haywire.”

“But I don’t care a twiddle if I offend Danny DePuzo or not.”

“It should give⟳ you, somewhere, deep down a twiddle of respect⟳.”

“Hey, diddle, diddle, we’re all in a twiddle, / Although we’re cuffed and we’re cuffed, / To be quite exact we cannot act, / For, you see⟳, we are all of us stuffed.”

“Your mother’s going to have⟳ a twiddle fit if you dumped a perfectly good lord in the river.”

“In addition, nowhere in the article did I sense⟳ that anyone is angry at Serrano or blaming the school for lax security or getting their tighties in a twiddle about this or that.”

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