tweet
See also: Tweet
English
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Etymology
Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter.
Pronunciation
Noun
tweet (plural tweets) Template:examples-right
- The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
- (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
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- 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.
- 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:
- A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]
Conjugation
Conjugation of tweet
infinitive | (to) tweet | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | tweet | tweeted | |
2nd-person singular | |||
3rd-person singular | tweets | ||
plural | tweet | ||
subjunctive | tweet | tweeted | |
imperative | tweet | — | |
participles | tweeting | tweeted |
Translations
sound
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internet: entry
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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)
- (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
- (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian[1]:
- In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.
- 2017 Jan 25, BBC World Service, "Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'", http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38740717 (Retrieved 2017-01-25)
- Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
Derived terms
Translations
to make a short high-pitched sound
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internet: to post an update to Twitter
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Further reading
- “'Tweet' 2009 Word of the Year, 'Google' Word of the Decade, as voted by American Dialect Society”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], American Dialect Society, 2010 January 8
Interjection
tweet
- An onomatopoeic of bird singing.
Translations
Translations
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See also
Danish
Etymology
Noun
tweet
- 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.
- 2014, Caspar Eric, 7 / 11, Gyldendal A/S →ISBN
Declension
Declension of tweet
Verb
tweet
French
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
Synonyms
- (Twitter): twit
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Noun
tweet m (plural s)
Spanish
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
Categories:
- English onomatopoeias
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːt
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Internet
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English interjections
- en:Animal sounds
- en:Twitter
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish terms spelled with W
- Danish nouns with multiple genders
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish verb forms
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms spelled with W
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Twitter
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with W
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- pt:Internet
- pt:Twitter
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with W
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- es:Twitter