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Tweened vs Tweeped - What's the difference?

tweened | tweeped |

As verbs the difference between tweened and tweeped

is that tweened is past tense of tween while tweeped is past tense of tweep.

tweened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tween)

    • 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

    *

    tweeped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tweep)

    • tweep

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chirp or beep.
  • * 1995 , John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles , Fireside (1995), ISBN 0684802392, page 321:
    • The readers are Star Trek'' cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, ''Enterprise -sounding beeps and tweeps .
  • * 2008 , Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey , Oyster Moon Press (2008), ISBN 9781435714281, page 106:
    • Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence
  • *

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To chirp or beep.
  • * 1996 , , A New Day Rising , Bethany House Publishers (1996), ISBN 9780764201929, unnumbered page:
    • A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
  • * 1999 , , Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family , Bard (1999), ISBN 9780380977673, page 103:
    • No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.
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    • Etymology 2

    From TWEP , acronym of (terminate with extreme prejudice), a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
  • * 1997 , , Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers , John Wiley (1997), ISBN 9780471184560:
    • Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.
  • *

    • Etymology 3

    .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Internet, slang) A user.
  • * 2011 , (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir , Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9781451640182, page 305:
    • As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber";
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    • English onomatopoeias