Crossword clues for twiddle
twiddle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twiddle \Twid"dle\, v. i.
To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
--Halliwell.
Twiddle \Twid"dle\, n.
A slight twist with the fingers.
A pimple. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
Twiddle \Twid"dle\, v. t. [Probably of imitative origin. Cf.
Tweedle.]
To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to
twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key. [Written also
twidle.]
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "to trifle," of unknown origin, said to be probably imitative; of the fingers, "to twirl idly," first recorded 1670s. Figurative phrase twiddle one's thumbs "have nothing to do" is recorded from 1846; to twirl one's thumbs in the same sense is recorded from 1816. Related: Twiddled; twiddling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A slight twist with the fingers. 2 (context UK dialect English) A pimple. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around. 2 (context transitive computing English) To flip or switch two adjacent bits. 3 (context transitive mathematics English) To be in an equivalence relation with. 4 (context intransitive English) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
WordNet
n. a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
v. turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, whirl]
manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner; "He twiddled her thumbs while waiting for the interview" [syn: fiddle with]
Wikipedia
Twiddle or Twiddling may refer to:
- Twiddle (band), an American rock band
- Twiddle factor, in Fast Fourier Transforms in mathematics
- Thumb twiddling, action of the hands
- Twiddly bits, English idiom
- Tilde character ( ~ ), sometimes referred to as "twiddle" or "squiggle"
- Mr Twiddle, zookeeper character in Wally Gator animated TV series
- Victor Twiddle, a fictional character, assistant to Captain Paul Montford in The Wolf Man
Twiddle is an American rock band. They are a jam band, and utilize extensive instrumental improvisation in their live performances. They incorporate influences from a wide variety of music genres, including rock, jazz, bluegrass, reggae, and funk.
Twiddle formed at Castleton State College in Vermont in 2004. The current members of the band are Mihali Savoulidis (guitar, vocals), Ryan Dempsey (keyboards, vocals), Zdenek Gubb (bass, vocals), and Brook Jordan (drums, percussion, vocals).
Fans of the band sometimes refer to themselves as Twiddiots. While Twiddle has released several albums, they are best known for their live concerts.
Usage examples of "twiddle".
All Foaly could do was twiddle his thumbs and wait for contact with the surface team.
Pompey and Metellus Nepos had utterly eclipsed him, had commandeered his fleets and left him to twiddle his thumbs in Tarsus.
So now he was qualified to sell used cars, dig ditches, twiddle his thumbs, or do as Sarah Lou Dickerson Grinolli Vizzard, a.
As I lay wondering over the matter I heard a shuffling step which I recognized, and, turning, saw Hans twiddling a new hat made of straw in his fingers.
Catholicism in its Sunday-best garb, twiddling the knobs of mechanism via the pineal, but he left a clockwork human for the remaining six days of the week, debiologized as well as desacralized and open to treatment as a mere bete machine within the developing industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
So at one moment I would be twiddling with my fingers as on the frets of a viella, and the next I would be using my lips in the manner of playing a dulzaina, and the next I would be flutter-tonguing in the way a flutist blows his flute.
And here he sat, twiddling his thumbs with make-work yard projects, babysitting the sexiest woman alive.
Dorcas pegged her jockey cap on the head of a marble statue of the great local hero, Smuggler Jim Biggins, and jamming her red hair behind her ears, squared her shoulders and got down to the serious business of twiddling dials.
Sometimes he could be as still as cast bronze, as motionless as marble, forgetting even to blink, but more often than not, he flicked or twiddled his fingers for hours on end or jiggled his legs, or tapped his feet.
Maybury was hunched over, shoulders tense, her fingers flying over the lightboard, her bare toes twiddling in unconscious rhythm.
He twiddled the autozoom on his electrobinoculars, to flip the enhanced image back and forth between a wide-angle overview and tightly focused close-ups of individual plants.
Dull boomings from beyond: Oliver, naked, is kneeling before the television set, twiddling dials.
Sylla kicked the fix pedal, twiddled his calibrator and dropped the fist.
I twiddled my fan delicately toward the trees where the necessary facilities lurked, separated from the main house by an aesthetic distance and a screen of small white pines.
Seeing the feather, she made the most agitated movements of her head, then arched her back as I sat beside her and carefully twiddled the feather tip about her spot.