different between tweet vs whimper

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 dialectal whimp (“to whine”) +? -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?mp?(?)/, /???mp?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?mp?(?)

Noun

whimper (plural whimpers)

1. A low intermittent sob.

Translations

Verb

whimper (third-person singular simple present whimpers, present participle whimpering, simple past and past participle whimpered)

1. To cry or sob softly and intermittently.

   The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering; and the cook, crying out "Bless God! it's Mr. Utterson," ran forward as if to take him in her arms.

2. To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
   • March 22 1549, Hugh Latimer, third sermon preached before King Edward VI

     Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him?

3. To say something in a whimpering manner.

   "Master, please don't punish me!" he whimpered.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Derived terms

• whimperative

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