different between tweet vs squeak

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

squeak (plural squeaks)

1. A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals.
2. (games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
3. (slang) A narrow squeak.
   • 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

     "I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]

Translations

Verb

squeak (third-person singular simple present squeaks, present participle squeaking, simple past and past participle squeaked)

1. (intransitive) To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
2. (intransitive, slang) To inform, to squeal.

   • If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.

3. (transitive) To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
4. (intransitive, games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
5. (intransitive, informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.
   • 1999, Surfer (volume 40, issues 7-12)

     […] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.

Synonyms

• (to inform): drop a dime, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

• bubble and squeak
• squeakish
• squeaky
• squeak by
• squeak through

Translations

Anagrams

• quakes