TWEET

tweet

(noun) a weak chirping sound as of a small bird

pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch

(verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers; “He pinched her behind”; “She squeezed the bottle”

tweet, twirp

(verb) make a weak, chirping sound; “the small bird was tweeting in the tree”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

(Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

Verb

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past (internet, very rare) twote or tweeted, past participle (internet, very rare) twoten or tweeted)

(intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.

(ambitransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.

Interjection

tweet

An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

23 November 2024

THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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