Tween vs Span - What's the difference?
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(animation) An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
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(cinematography) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.
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(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.}}
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,
* 2004 , Lisa Johnson, Andrea Learned, Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy--And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market ,
* 2011', Hollie Smith, ''You and Your '''Tween : Managing the years from 9 to 13 , Netmums,
The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
* Alexander Pope
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* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
(nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
(obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
(mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something
To traverse the distance between.
To cover or extend over an area or time period.
* Prescott
To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
* Bible, Isa. xiviii. 13
(mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations
(intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
(archaic, nonstandard) (spin)
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*:a giant pick-up truck span out of control during a stunt show in a Dutch town, killing three people
As nouns the difference between tween and span
is that tween is an action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening while span is the space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.As verbs the difference between tween and span
is that tween is to generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement while span is to traverse the distance between.As an acronym SPAN is
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English
(wikipedia tween)Etymology 1
Contraction of between.Noun
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- 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 .
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- 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.
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- If you select the frames first, they will be replaced by the copied tween .
Verb
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- The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.
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- 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.
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- 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
* tweenerEtymology 2
.Cardinal number
(s)Etymology 3
Noun
(s)- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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* pre-teenAnagrams
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English
Etymology 1
(etyl) spannNoun
(en noun)- Yet not to earth's contracted span / Thy goodness let me bound.
- Life's but a span ; I'll every inch enjoy.
- The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans ,
Etymology 2
Old English spannanVerb
(spann)- The suspension bridge spanned the canyon as tenuously as one could imagine.
- The parking lot spans three acres.
- The novel spans three centuries.
- World record! 5 GHz WiFi connection spans 189 miles. [http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/27/world-record-5ghz-wifi-connection-spans-189-miles/]
- The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
- to span''' a space or distance; to '''span a cylinder
- My right hand hath spanned the heavens.
