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Definition of Tweet

1. Verb. Make a weak, chirping sound. "The small bird was tweeting in the tree"

2. Noun. A weak chirping sound as of a small bird.

3. Verb. Squeeze tightly between the fingers. "They tweet the trees"; "She squeezed the bottle"

Definition of Tweet

1. Noun. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. ¹

2. Noun. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter; can be a post or status update. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. ¹

4. Verb. (ambitransitive Internet) To post an update to Twitter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tweet

1. to chirp [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: chirp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweet

tweenings tweens tweeny tweenybopper tweenyboppers tweep tweeped tweeping tweeple tweeps

tweer tweered tweering tweers tweest tweet (current term) tweetable tweetdom tweeted tweeter

tweeters tweetheart tweeting tweetings tweets tweetup tweetups tweeze tweezed tweezer

Literary usage of Tweet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harmonic Primer by Frederic Herbert Ripley, Thomas Tapper (1903)
"tweet! tweet! 2. tweet! tweet! tweet! May ev - 'ry hour be sweet! tweet! tweet! s tweet! May ev - 'ry hour be sweet! God loves us, and tweet! ..."

2. The Birds of New Jersey by Charles Anthony Shriner (1896)
"Their song is a lisping tweet-tweet-tweet, very short. Their food consists of grass seeds, wild oats and insects. Sparrow.. Tree, or Winter Chippy. ..."

3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"Mr. Brewster records the song as "peet, tweet, tweet, tweet." (BNOC 3, pp. 153-162). The food is reported to consist largely of various species of insects. ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... tweet for our country to dit I —Л". У. Tribune, June 21. TO THE THIRD REGIMENT OF MAINE. BY WC BAKER. When the robber and assassin Stealthily at ..."

5. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"... ind tweet Moral DETERMINATION, is one which proceeds troni a caule -д hxh ops- rates morally, ie by commanding, ..."

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