Tweak

Definition: Tweak

Tweak

Noun

1. A squeeze with the fingers.

Verb

1. Pinch or squeeze sharply.

2. Pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush".

3. Adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tweak" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tweak

Pain

Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).

Physical Pain

Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound).

Crosswords: Tweak

Tweak! Tweak! (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

I just want a day where I can build missiles and tweak fire control in peace. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

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Books

• Karma Tweak (reference)

• The Book of Overclocking: Tweak Your PC to Unleash Its Power (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "tweak": to tweak ♦ tweak smb.'s nose. Additional references.

Albanian

shkulje (exaction, extraction, yank), shkul (deracinate, drag out, extort, extract, grub, hank, jerk, pluck, pull, pull out, rip out, root up, skein, tear, tear down, wring, yank). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قرص (bite, jab, nip, nip out, nipping, pill, pinch, sting). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щипване (pinch), щипвам, ощипване (nip, pinch), ощипвам (nip, pinch), откъсване (avulsion, breakaway, detachment, intercept, interception, tearing off), откъсвам (break away, break off, dissociate, island, pick off, prescind, pull, pull off, rend, rip off, tear away, tear off, tear out, uproot, win away), пощипване, дръпване (hitch, jerk, pluck), дръпвам (hitch, jerk, pull, pull at, pull away, pull down, pull in, retract, strike, suck at, tug, twitch, withdraw). (various references)

Chinese 

扭动 (Squirmed, squirming, Wiggle, wiggles, Wrenched, Wrenching). (various references)

Czech

zatahat (tug), zatahání, štípnutí (bite, nip, pinch, sting), štípnout (nip, sting). (various references)

Danish

trimme (alignment, to tweak). (various references)

Dutch

fijn afstellen (to tweak). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), پیچ دادن (Flex, Hurtle, Screw, Strain, Wrench), نیشگون گرفتن وکشیدن , نیشگون تیز. (various references)

Finnish

optimoida (optimization, to tweak). (various references)

French

pincer, parler de nez. (various references)

German

kneifen (back out, chicken out, crap out, duck out, get out, hedge, nip, pinch, pinching, to nip), hochfrisieren (soup up), frisieren (comb, cook, curl, do, do smb.'s hair, doctor, fiddle, hairdressing, hot up, manipulate, soup up, to dress the hair). (various references)

Greek 

τσιμπώ δυνατά, τσιμπώ (bite, nab, nibble, nip, pinch, sting, stung, twinge), τσιμπιά (pinch). (various references)

Hungarian

csípés (bite, dig, Peck, pinch, sting, tingle). (various references)

Indonesian

merenggut (snatch, tug), mencubit (nip), cecak (dot, fleck, lizard, nip, spot). (various references)

Italian

pizzicare (be hot, bite, nip, pinch, pluck, sting, tingle). (various references)

Pig Latin

eaktway

Portuguese

torcer (bend, contort, convolute, kink, screw, spin, sprain, strain, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, warp, wind, wrench, wrick, wring, writhe), torcegão, torcedura (laying, sprain, twist, winding, wriggle), puxão (jerk, jumble, lug, pluck, pull, tug, twitch, wrench, yank), dar um puxão em, beliscar fortemente, beliscão forte, beliscão (nip, pinch, twitch), astúcia (art, artfulness, astuteness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dodge, double, invention, ruse, slyness, stratagem, trick, trickery, wile), artimanha (cunning, guile, jape, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wile). (various references)

Romanian

pişcãturã (nip, sting), pişca (bite, nip, pinch, sting), ciupiturã (nip, pinch, pit), ciupi (filch, goose, nip, pick, pinch, pit, pluck, twang). (various references)

Russian 

ущипнуть (pinch), щипок (nip, pinch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

štipnuti (nip, pinch), štipanje (nip, tingle). (various references)

Spanish

pellizcar retorciendo. (various references)

Swedish

nypa (nip, peg, pinch). (various references)

Turkish

çimdiklemek (nip, pinch, pinch off), çimdik (nip, pinch). (various references)

Turkmen 

зьmmьklemek (pinch), зirtmek (pinch). (various references)

Ukrainian

ущипнути (nip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái vặn, cái véo (nip, pinch). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tweak": tweaked, tweakier, tweakiest, tweaking, tweaks, tweaky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tweak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teaky, tewa, theak, treak, tseuc, twae, tweac, twead, tweaj, tweaky, twean, tweat, tweeb, tweef, tweeg, tweek, tweel, tweep, Twisk, twoa, tzedaka. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: take, teak, twae, wake, weak, weka.

-2 letters: ate, awe, eat, eta, kae, kat, kea, tae, taw, tea, tew, twa, wae, wat, wet.

-3 letters: ae, at, aw, et, ka, ta, we.

+1 letter: tweaks, tweaky.

+2 letters: tweaked, weakest, wetback.

+3 letters: gawkiest, knitwear, pawkiest, seatwork, swankest, takeaway, takedown, teakwood, teamwork, thwacked, thwacker, twankies, tweakier, tweaking, wackiest, wartlike, wetbacks, workmate.

+4 letters: awestruck, backswept, backwater, buckwheat, earthwork, jerkwater, kittiwake, metalwork, newmarket, outwalked, seatworks, swankiest, takedowns, teakwoods, teamworks, thwackers, tweakiest, wapentake, waterbuck, watermark, weakliest, whackiest, workmates, worktable.

+5 letters: autoworker, awkwardest, backwaters, basketwork, blackwater, breakwater, breastwork, buckwheats, earthworks, kittiwakes, makeweight, masterwork, metalworks, newmarkets, sweepstake, swoopstake, tomahawked, wapentakes, watchmaker, waterbucks, watermarks, waterworks, workbasket, worktables, wraithlike.