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tweet
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)
- The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
- (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.
- 2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications
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)
- (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
- (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter. [from 2007]
Conjugation
Derived terms
- quote tweet
- retweet
- tweetup
- tweeter
Translations
Interjection
tweet
- An onomatopoeic of bird singing.
Translations
See also
- 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)
- tweet
- Synonyms: piulada, tuit
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English tweet.
Noun
tweet
- 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.
- 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN
Declension
Verb
tweet
- imperative of tweete
French
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
- a tweet (a message on Twitter)
Synonyms
- (Twitter): twit
Polish
Etymology
From English tweet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twit/
Noun
tweet m inan
- (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)
- (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
Spanish
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
- tweet
tweet From the web:
- what tweet got trump banned
- what tweet has the most likes
- what tweet has the most retweets
- what tweets were banned
- what tweets are trending
- what tweets got deleted
- what tweets violated twitter
- what tweet has the most comments
mutter
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
- Hyphenation: mut?ter
Etymology 1
From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin. Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin mutt?re, mut?re.
Noun
mutter (plural mutters)
- A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
- The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.
Translations
Verb
mutter (third-person singular simple present mutters, present participle muttering, simple past and past participle muttered)
- To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
- You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
- The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
- To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
- The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
- To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
- April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.
Synonyms
- (speak under one's breath): growl, grumble, mumble
- (speak incoherently): babble, mumble, murmur, ramble, stutter
- (make a low sound): growl, putter, rumble
- See also Thesaurus:mutter
Derived terms
- mutterer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Hindi ??? (ma?ar)
Alternative forms
- matar
Noun
mutter
- (Indian cuisine) Peas.
Derived terms
- mutter paneer
Danish
Etymology
From German Mutter (“mother”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?t?r/, [?m?d??], /mut?r/, [?mud??]
Noun
mutter c (singular definite mutteren, not used in plural form)
- mommy, mummy, ma
- old woman
- missus
References
- “mutter” in Den Danske Ordbog
Estonian
Etymology
From a Germanic language, compare Finnish mutteri.
Noun
mutter (genitive mutri, partitive mutrit)
- nut (that screws onto a bolt)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From German Mutter
Noun
mutter m (definite singular mutteren, indefinite plural muttere or mutre or mutrer, definite plural mutterne or mutrene)
- a nut (for bolts)
- skrue og mutter - nut and bolt
References
- “mutter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Mutter
Noun
mutter m (definite singular mutteren, indefinite plural mutterar or mutrar, definite plural mutterane or mutrane)
- a nut (for bolts)
References
- “mutter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From or at least cognate to German Mutter.
Noun
mutter c
- a nut (for bolts)
Declension
Noun
mutter n (uncountable)
- mutter; obscure utterance
Declension
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