different between weep vs tweep

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?p, IPA^(key): /wi?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English wepen, from Old English w?pan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?pijan, from Proto-Germanic *w?pijan? (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh?b- (“to call, cry, complain”).

Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).

Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or (poetic, otherwise nonstandard) weeped)

1. To cry; shed tears.

   • They wept together in silence.

2. To lament; to complain.

   • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

3. (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

   a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
   • 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove

     Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
     Of having lost her favorite dove.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A session of crying.

   Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

Etymology 2

Imitative of its cry.

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

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