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tween | child |

As nouns the difference between tween and child

is that tween is (animation) an action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening or tween can be a person who is neither a young child nor an adolescent, one of an age in the range of 8 to 12 years old or a similar range while child is a daughter or son; an offspring.

As a verb tween

is (cinematography) to generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.

tween

English

(wikipedia tween)

Etymology 1

Contraction of between.

Noun

(s)
  • (animation) An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
  • * 2004 , Andy Anderson, Mark Del Lima, Steve Johnson, Show Me Macromedia Flash MX 2004 , page 237,
    • Because the results of a shape tween' can be unpredictable, you can set shape hints to let Flash know how to proceed with the ' tween .
  • * 2009 , Keith Butters, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Flash CS4 Professional , page 186,
    • A tween' is a method of creating animation, where you tell Flash where to start and where to end, and Flash does all the work in the middle. There are three types of ' tweens : Classic, Shape, and Motion.
  • * 2009 , Rich Shupe, Learning Flash CS4 Professional , page 129,
    • If you select the frames first, they will be replaced by the copied tween .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cinematography) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.
  • * 2004 , D. P. Mukherjee, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics and Multimedia , page 117,
    • The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.
  • * 2005 , Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies , page 191,
    • Simple motion tweening' moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with ' tweened animation.
  • * 2012 , Christopher Griffith, Real-World Flash Game Development , 2nd Edition, page 113,
    • The first parameter is the object that you want to tween , and the second parameter is the amount of time you want it to take in seconds.
    Derived terms
    * tweener

    Etymology 2

    .

    Cardinal number

    (s)
  • (nonce word) A number in the twenties, or from 23 to 32.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=The Fellowship of the Ring , author=JRR Tolkien , page=44 , year=1955 (1974) , passage=At that time Frodo was still in his tweens , as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and the coming of age at thirty-three.}}

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (s)
  • A person who is neither a young child nor an adolescent, one of an age in the range of 8 to 12 years old or a similar range.
  • * 2002 March 2, Billboard , Volume 114, Number 9, page 70,
    • When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
  • * 2004 , Lisa Johnson, Andrea Learned, Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy--And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market , page 5,
    • This grade school thinking forgets that tweens are one of the most sophisticated groups of consumers in the marketplace, and that kids this age have zero tolerance for being treated like children.
  • * 2011', Hollie Smith, ''You and Your '''Tween : Managing the years from 9 to 13 , Netmums, unnumbered page,
    • However, if we worry too much about feeding our tweens , and if we show them we're worried, we could be passing on some unhealthy messages.
    Derived terms
    *
    Synonyms
    * pre-teen

    Anagrams

    *

    child

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A daughter or son; an offspring.
  • (figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
  • * 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:
    • For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
  • (figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
  • * 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:
    • Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants
  • (figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
  • * 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)
  • A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
  • * 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
    • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  • (obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A boy or a child , I wonder?

    Synonyms

    * (daughter or son) boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring * (young person) bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass * See also

    Antonyms

    * (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parent

    Derived terms

    * boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with child

    Related terms

    * chield, chiel * childe * Childermas

    See also

    * orling

    References

    * Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (accessed November 2007). * American Heritage Dictionary , Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003). English nouns with irregular plurals 1000 English basic words