different between tweet vs sing

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

From Middle English singen, from Old English singan, from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *seng??-. Cognate with German singen (“to sing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?ng, IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)

1. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

2. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
3. (transitive) To soothe with singing.

4. (transitive, intransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
   1. (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
   2. (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
5. (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
6. (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
7. To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure

     Bid her […] sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

8. (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.

9. (ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
   • 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)

     No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.

Synonyms

• (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

Related terms

• song

Translations

Noun

sing (plural sings)

1. The act, or event, of singing songs.
   • 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:

     Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.

Derived terms

• singsong

See also

• singe

Anagrams

• IGNs, Ings, NGIs, gins, ings, nigs, sign, snig

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zingen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Verb

sing (present sing, present participle singende, past participle gesing)

1. to sing

Derived terms

• gesonge (verbal adjective)

German

Pronunciation

Verb

sing

1. singular imperative of singen

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German. First attested in 1368.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i??]
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

sing (plural singek)

1. (archaic) cubit (a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm)

Declension

Derived terms

• singcsont

References

Further reading

• sing in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC ?i??).

Noun

sing 

1. sound

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thii?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kja?. Cognates include Burmese ????? (hkyang:) and Chinese ? (ji?ng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si???/

Noun

síng

1. ginger

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thi?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si?. Cognates include Burmese ??? (sac) and Chinese ? (x?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si???/

Noun

síng

1. tree

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45