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Tweak vs Tweet - What's the difference?

tweak | tweet |

As nouns the difference between tweak and tweet

is that tweak is a sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch while tweet is the sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

As verbs the difference between tweak and tweet

is that tweak is to pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch while tweet is to make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.

tweak

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
    • a tweak of the nose .
  • Trouble; distress; tweag.
  • A slight adjustment or modification.
    • He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.
  • (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
  • * 1638 , , Barnabae Itinerarium: or Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England : In latin and english metre , Thomas Gent (1852), page 113:
    • […] Thence to Bautree, as I came there, / From the bushes near the lane, there / Rush'd a tweak in gesture flanting / With a leering eye, and wanton : / But my flesh I did subdue it / Fearing lest my purse should rue it.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
  • (informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • To twit or tease.
  • (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
  • (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability; possibly a blend of twitch and freak.
  • (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement or other authority (e.g., customs agents, border patrol, teacher, etc.), mimicking methamphetamine abuse symptoms.

    • Derived terms

    * (drug abuser) tweaker, (US) * (drug abuse) tweaking

    References

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    tweet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  • (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service .
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, April 22, Jason Pontin, Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme, International Herald-Tribune citation
    • , passage=Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.}}
  • * 2008 , Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications
    • For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.
  • * 2008 , Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks
    • A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone...

    Verb

  • To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
  • (ambitransitive, Internet) To post an update to .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.}}

    Derived terms

    * retweet * tweetup * tweeter

    External links

    * '>citation

    See also

    * twitter * English onomatopoeias ----