What's the difference between tingle and twinge?

Tingle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
  • (v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
  • (v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
  • (2) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
  • (3) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
  • (4) The patient developed subacute symptoms over a 1-month period consisting of progressive pain, tingling, and weakness of the lower extremities.
  • (5) But I reckon Laura Tingle is dead right on the substantive challenge - the statement just shows the country can no longer coast.
  • (6) During the study, patients were asked about subjective neurologic symptoms such as tingling and numbness.
  • (7) Following routine inferior alveolar nerve block anesthesia, time is allowed for subjective signs of "tingling" of the lower lip.
  • (8) Similarly, the prevalence of numbness and tingling in the hands and fingers in the three exposure groups was 84%, 50%, and 17%.
  • (9) Side-effects with delmopinol were transient tingling and numbness of the tongue in some subjects.
  • (10) Another agent was benzocaine, a local anaesthetic used by dentists that produces a tingling sensation in the nose akin to that produced by cocaine.
  • (11) Among the exposed workers, the members of paediatric surgical staffs reported a higher rate of neurological complaints (tingling, numbness, cramps) and tiredness than the members of the other surgical staffs.
  • (12) A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of tingling numbness in the trunk and upper extremities.
  • (13) Complaints of weakness and tingling in hands and feet, together with low-grade changes in nerve conduction, suggest the possible influence of agents with a neurotoxic esterase-type activity independent of cholinesterase activity.
  • (14) A good answer on hot flushes and "irritability, anxiety, depression" was obtained by Trazodone, while Veralipride showed to be more active on all neurovegetative symptoms (hot flushes, sweatings, tinglings, palpitations, astenia).
  • (15) The sensory changes include burning pain, numbness, tingling, and loss of sensation, while the motor changes range from weakness to complete paralysis.
  • (16) The commonest symptoms were numbness or tingling in the legs and feet and gait disturbance.
  • (17) The most common sensation was a numbness and tingling in the ipsilateral arm when the chest was being treated.
  • (18) The pain intensified and numbness, tingling and paraesthesia developed over 24 hours.
  • (19) The academic Ross Garnaut, who advised the former Labor government about climate policy, responded to a call for concrete ideas from participants from the summit moderator, Australian Financial Review journalist Laura Tingle, by suggesting Australia could adopt an economy-wide carbon price and use the revenue raised to repair the budget deficit.
  • (20) With subcutaneous sumatriptan (4-8 mg) similar events were observed, but certain distinctive symptoms variously described as heaviness, pressure sensation, tingling, feelings of heat or warmth, were more common and affected various parts of the body.

Twinge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
  • (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
  • (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
  • (n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
  • (n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The archive goes back to how Vietnam began to embarrass the US ("a twinge in the public relations nerve" - Mary McCarthy), the womens' liberation movement (illustrated by a tense, and often hilarious, debate between Norman Mailer and Susan Sontag in which she pulls him up on his use of the word "ladies") and George W Bush's invasion of Iraq (the NYRB was the only major publication to oppose the war from the off).
  • (2) He’s not able to play three games in a week.” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe signs contract extension Read more Agüero damaged the left hamstring representing Argentina against Ecuador , nine days after feeling a twinge following the Champions League win in Mönchengladbach .
  • (3) Certainly Paris Saint-Germain – aside from being encouraged by the twinge to the right thigh suffered by John Terry which forced him prematurely from the fray and will require a scan on Sunday – will have learned little other than that the Premier League champions can still be expansive when permitted to revel.
  • (4) The funny things I remember all have a twinge of sorrow to them.
  • (5) But when future generations download the recordings, and listen to skylarks and nightingales, cuckoos and turtle doves, will they feel a twinge of sadness that these species are no longer with us?
  • (6) The Belgian, sufferer of a calf twinge against Southampton last week, was introduced for the final quarter – another boost for Guardiola before Barcelona visit the Etihad.
  • (7) Reading Scotland's Future, I couldn't at first account for a faint twinge of melancholy, a recognition.
  • (8) We’re having lunch in Winzavod, a fashionable ex-factory art space in Moscow where they have their office, and I almost feel a twinge of pity for those prison officials.
  • (9) You had to feel a twinge of pity for Lord Stevenson, who was the chairman of HBOS when it went down the khazi in 2008.
  • (10) To stay at a club where the fans love you is really important to me.” He is adamant he will not feel even a twinge of jealousy for Klopp.
  • (11) As I sit in the sun in the little peace garden finally eating my lentil dhal and nursing what is no more than a twinge in the small of the back, I can see what she means.
  • (12) Just as Ree Dolly is at her most beguiling when her mask momentarily slips, and her face briefly twinges with trauma and adolescent uncertainty, the usually formidable Lawrence's childish vulnerability is her most affecting quality.
  • (13) Touré was substituted before the end because of a slight twinge in his groin but Pellegrini did not seem too concerned it might prevent his midfielder from playing against Chelsea on Sunday.
  • (14) Some people may feel a twinge of sadness at some of the items that went the other way – VHS video players, MiniDisc players, local newspapers, nests of tables, bread bins, and jigsaw puzzles have all been removed from the basket in recent years.
  • (15) The tragedy is, just as not a single doctor in India who helped pregnant women get rid of their girl children will ever be held accountable for what has become an enormous social problem, it is doubtful if any UK doctors will ever feel a twinge of guilt over sex-selective abortion either, regardless of the consequences.
  • (16) Walker says he had "little twinges" when he saw the Mercury, but says that strikingly his health was good in the days afterwards: if he had made a big mistake, the stress would have manifested itself in stronger symptoms.
  • (17) Now the veil has been ripped away and we know there are a sizeable number of Tory MPs who are willing to do serious damage to David Cameron and feel no twinge of disloyalty."
  • (18) Part of me was really annoyed because he hadn't called me back for, like, a month and then I saw him and had this tiny burned twinge of hurt, but it disappeared within a minute because that sort of family bond is so much deeper than any other bond.
  • (19) Occasionally, however, disturbing sensations, such as "metallic taste", "twinging or stabbing" and "minute electric shock" are reported.
  • (20) The slightest twinge and I wonder if that's it, if I'm dying right there and then.