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twitter

English

Etymology

From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English twiterian, from Proto-Germanic *twitwiz?n? (to chirp; twitter). Cognate with German zwitzern, zwitschern (to twitter) and Low German twitteren (to twitter). Compare also Dutch kwetteren (to twitter), Danish kvidre (to twitter), Swedish kvittra (to twitter), dialectal Swedish tittra (to twitter).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tw?t'?r, IPA(key): /?tw?.t?(?)/
  • (General American) enPR: tw?t'?r, IPA(key): /?tw?.t?/, /?tw?.t??/, [?t?w?.??]
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)

Noun

twitter (countable and uncountable, plural twitters)

  1. The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
    I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
  2. A tremulous broken sound.
  3. A slight trembling of the nerves.
  4. Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
    • 1986, IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)
      Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

Translations

Verb

twitter (third-person singular simple present twitters, present participle twittering, simple past and past participle twittered)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
    • 1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1825, The Works of Thomas Gray, Volume I, page 114,
      The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, / The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
  2. (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
  3. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Fletcher to this entry?)
  4. To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To twit; to reproach or upbraid.
    • I have repented of it many’s the good time and oft. And if he was so good to forgive me a word spoken in haste or so, it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me. He was a husband to me, he was; and if ever I did make use of an ill word or so in a passion, I never called him rascal []
  6. Alternative form of Twitter

Synonyms

  • (internet neologism): tweet

Derived terms

  • atwitter

Translations


French

Alternative forms

  • tweeter

Etymology

From English Twitter

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twi.te/

Verb

twitter

  1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (to post to Twitter)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • twit (a tweet (a message on Twitter))
  • tweet (a tweet (a message on Twitter))
  • twittosphère
  • twitteur

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  • what twitter lists am i on
  • what twitter stan are you
  • what twitter symbols mean
  • what twitter icons mean
  • what twitter time zone am i in
  • what twitter is saying about the debate


squeak

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

squeak From the web:

  • what squeaks
  • what squeaks on a bed
  • what squeaky means
  • what squeaks in suspension
  • what squeaks at night
  • what squeaky brakes mean
  • what squeaks when going over bumps
  • what squeaks at night outside
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