tweet
See also: Tweet
English
Alternative forms
- (Twitter post): Tweet
Etymology
Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twiːt/
- Rhymes: -iːt
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
tweet (plural tweets)
- The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
- 1934, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, April 7 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 104):
- [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
- 1934, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, April 7 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 104):
- (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. [from 2007]
- 2007, April 22, “Jason Pontin”, in Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme:
- Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.
- 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 […]
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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, rare, humorous) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, rare, humorous) twoten)
- (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
- 1934, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, April 7 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 104):
- [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.
- 1934, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Saturday, April 7 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 104):
- (transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter. [from 2007]
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
- 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 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service, retrieved 2017-01-25:
- Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"
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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 |
Derived terms
- quote tweet
- retweet
- subtweet
- tweetup
- tweeter
Translations
to make a short high-pitched sound
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internet: to post an update to Twitter
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Interjection
tweet
- The sound of a bird twittering.
- 1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
- I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds
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Translations
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See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
References
- Craig Hockenberry (June 28th, 2013), “The Origin of Tweet”, in furbo.org, archived from the original on 2013-07-02
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), American Dialect Society, 2010-01-08
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English tweet.
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
- tweet
- Synonyms: piulada, tuit
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English tweet.
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 ...
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Declension
Declension of tweet
either gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tweet | tweeten tweetet | tweets | tweetsene tweetene |
genitive | tweets | tweetens tweetets | tweets' | tweetsenes tweetenes |
Verb
tweet
- imperative of tweete
French
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
- a tweet (a message on Twitter)
- Synonym: twit
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twit/
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: tweet
Noun
tweet m inan
- (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
Declension
Declension of tweet
singular | plural | |
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nominative | tweet | tweety |
genitive | tweetu | tweetów |
dative | tweetowi | tweetom |
accusative | tweet | tweety |
instrumental | tweetem | tweetami |
locative | tweecie | tweetach |
vocative | tweecie | tweety |
Derived terms
verb
- tweetować
Related terms
noun
Further reading
- tweet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tweet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- tuíte
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
- (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
Spanish
Noun
tweet m (plural tweets)
- tweet
Turkish
Alternative forms
- twit
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English tweet.
Noun
tweet (definite accusative tweeti, plural tweetler)
- (Internet) tweet (entry posted on Twitter)
Declension
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Definite accusative | tweeti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | tweet | tweetler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | tweeti | tweetleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | tweete | tweetlere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | tweette | tweetlerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | tweetten | tweetlerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | tweetin | tweetlerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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