different between tweet vs tweep

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

• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps)

1. A chirp or beep.
   • 1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside (1995), ?ISBN, page 321:

     The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps.

   • 2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 106:

     Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

Verb

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

1. To chirp or beep.
   • 1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers (1996), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.

   • 1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard (1999), ?ISBN, page 103:

     No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

Etymology 2

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

Verb

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

1. (US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
   • 1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley (1997), ?ISBN:

     Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

Etymology 3

Blend of Twitter +? peep (“person”).

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps or tweeple)

1. (Internet, slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

   Synonyms: Twitter user, Twitter blogger, tweeter, twitterer

Anagrams

• pewet, wepte