different between tweet vs bloop

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twi?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

tweet (plural tweets)

1. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
2. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [from 2007]
   • 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.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
2. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter. [from 2007]

Conjugation

Derived terms

• quote tweet
• retweet
• tweetup
• tweeter

Translations

Interjection

tweet

1. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

Translations

See also

• twitter
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Further reading

• tweet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[5], American Dialect Society, 2010-01-08

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English tweet.

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. tweet

   Synonyms: piulada, tuit

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tweet.

Noun

tweet

1. tweet (Twitter)
   • 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN

     ... og at du lyver i dine tweets / ... / jeg skriver et tweet med våde fingre / ... / og der er 7 personer der citerer tweeten ...

   • 2015, Anna Erelle, Forklædt som jihad-brud, Art People ?ISBN

     David Thomsons kontakter synes, hans historie er for tyk, og han har trukket tweetet tilbage.

Declension

Verb

tweet

1. imperative of tweete

French

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. a tweet (a message on Twitter)

Synonyms

• (Twitter): twit

Polish

Etymology

From English tweet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twit/

Noun

tweet m inan

1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) tweetowa?

Related terms

• (noun) Twitter

Further reading

• tweet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tweet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tuíte

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)

Spanish

Noun

tweet m (plural tweets)

1. tweet

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

1. (baseball) To make a hit just beyond the infield.
2. (informal) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
3. (television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
   • 1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography (page 96)

     Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.

Derived terms

• unblooped

Noun

bloop (plural bloops)

1. (informal) A low-pitched beeping sound.

   The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.