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Definition: Tweed |
TweedNoun1. Thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland. 2. (usually in the plural) trousers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tweed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1628. (references) |
Note: Tweed \Tweed\, noun. [Probably corruption of twills. See Twill.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Originally a coarse, heavy-weight, rough-surfaced wool fabric, for outerwear, woven in Southern Scotland. The term is now applied to fabrics made in a wide range of weights and qualities from woollen-spun yarns in a variety of weave effects and colour-and-weave effects. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1869 tobacco label featuring Boss TweedWilliam Marcy Tweed a.k.a. "Boss Tweed" (April 3, 1823 - April 12, 1878), American politician, was the first political "boss" of Tammany Hall, which had formerly been controlled by committees.
Tammany Hall had existed since 1789 but it gained its notoriety under Tweed, a chairmaker by trade who used his popularity as a volunteer fireman to advance himself. He became an alderman in 1851 and he built his power through the election and appointment of his friends, which became known as the "Tweed Ring," to numerous offices in New York City, and even to the state legislature and judges' seats, often through illegal means. From 1860-1870, Tweed controlled all Democratic Party nominations for the city and the state.
Tweed himself was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1852, the New York City Board of Advisors in 1856, and the New York State Senate in 1867.
In April 1870, Tweed secured the passage of a city charter putting the control of the city into the hands of the mayor, the comptroller, and the commissioners of parks and public works. He then set about to plunder the city. The total amount of money stolen was never known, but was estimated at between $30 and $200 million. Over a period of two years and eight months, New York City's debts increased by $81 million, with little to show for the debt.
They generally worked by presenting excessive bills for work performed. Ostensibly the bills were paid in full, but in reality only part of the amount was paid, with Tweed retaining the remainder and dividing it between his followers in proportion to their importance. For example, the city was billed $13 million to build a courthouse, which was several times the actual cost of construction; and $3 million for city printing and stationery over a two-year period.
The end came when one of the plunderers was dissatisfied with the amount he received and gave The New York Times evidence that conclusively proved the stealing was going on. In a subsequent interview about the fraud, Tweed's only reply was, "What are you going to do about it?" However, accounts in The New York Times and political cartoons drawn by Thomas Nast and published in Harper's Weekly resulted in the election of numerous opposition candidates in 1871. Tweed is attributed with exclaiming, "Stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers say about me. My constituents can't read. But, damn it, they can see pictures!"
The efforts of political reformer Samuel J. Tilden resulted in Tweed's trial and conviction in 1873. He was given a 12-year prison sentence, which was reduced by a higher court and he served one year. He was then re-arrested on civil charges, sued by New York State for $6 million, and held in debtor's prison until he could post $3 million as bail. On December 4, 1875, Tweed escaped and fled to Cuba and then to Spain, where he worked as a common seaman on a Spanish ship. He was identified, purportedly recognized from one of Nast's cartoons, and was extradited to New York (he was delivered to authorities in New York City on November 23, 1876), where he died in debtor's prison two years later.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boss Tweed."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The River Tweed (156 kilometers long) flows primarily through the Borders region of Scotland. Its lower reaches mark the Scots border with England for 27 kilometers near Berwick-upon-Tweed.Tweed affluents include the River Gala, the River Ettrick and the River Teviot.
See Tweeddale.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "River Tweed."
Synonyms: TweedSynonyms: flannel (n), gabardine (n), white (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tweed |
| English words defined with "tweed": Harris Tweed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tweed": Abbotsford. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tweed" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Tweed), German (tweed), Hungarian (tweed), Italian (Tweed), Portuguese (tweed), Spanish (Tweed), Swedish (Tweed). |
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Screenplays | Homer thats supposed to be leather patches on a tweed jacket, not the other way around, you've ruined a perfectly good jacket (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) His diapers were tweed. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) If only I had the guns Mr Tweed I'd shoot each and every one of them before they set foot on American soil (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks) New York loved William Tweed and hated him but for those of us trying to be thieves, we couldn't help but admire him. (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks) It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants (Sleeper; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Friend in Tweed (1964) Boss Tweed (1933) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The spirit of Tweed is still mighty : and even yet you don't know what you are going to do about it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Jamian Advertising Co. Tweed, table set-up. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Leather & Tweed, business at 575 Madison Ave., New York City. Detail of entrance. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Peter De Vries | Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy. |
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| "Tweed" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.48% of the time. "Tweed" is used about 522 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50.48% | 264 | 18,152 |
| Noun (singular) | 48.18% | 252 | 18,696 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 522 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tweed" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tweed | Last name | 1,000 | 8,685 |
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Expressions using "tweed": harris tweed ♦ scotch tweed. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "tweed": tweed-coated, tweed-covered, tweed-skirted, Tweed-solway, tweed-suited, tweed-upholstered. | |
Ending with "tweed": Berwick-on-tweed, Berwick-upon-tweed, Gillis-tweed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
shannon tweed | 1,913 | leeann tweed | 16 |
tweed | 172 | shannon tweed image | 15 |
shannon tweed nude | 130 | shannon tweed movie | 15 |
shannon tweed picture | 63 | tweed fabric | 15 |
shannon tweed pic | 61 | interior tweed | 14 |
milbank tweed | 51 | tweed head | 14 |
boss tweed | 49 | leann tweed | 14 |
tracy tweed | 47 | mpg shannon tweed | 13 |
ontario tweed | 36 | tweed jacket | 13 |
shannon tweed gallery | 33 | scorned shannon tweed | 13 |
shanon tweed | 27 | sharon tweed | 12 |
greene tweed | 23 | shannon lee tweed | 12 |
shannon tweed naked | 21 | milbank tweed hadley mccloy | 11 |
shannon tweed photo | 20 | shannon tweed clip | 10 |
shannon tweed pic nude | 19 | picture shannon shannon tweed tweed | 10 |
berwick upon tweed | 18 | airport tweed | 10 |
airport haven new tweed | 18 | william tweed | 10 |
shannon tweed mpeg | 18 | oops tweed | 9 |
berwick kingdom tweed united upon | 17 | gallery photo shannon tweed | 9 |
harris tweed | 17 | river tweed | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "tweed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Stof Leshi Me Cirka. (various references) | |
Arabic | التويد نسيج صوفي خشن, بذلة تويدية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Туийд, Спортен Костюм От Туийд. (various references) | |
Chinese | 花呢, 斜紋軟呢 . (various references) | |
Czech | Tvíd. (various references) | |
Danish | tweed. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Berviko ĉe la Tvido (Berwick upon Tweed). (various references) | |
Farsi | پارچه پشم ونخ راه راه مردانه , نوعی فاستونی . (various references) | |
French | Tweed. (various references) | |
German | Tweed. (various references) | |
Greek | tweed, μάλλινο σκωτικό ύφασμα, "ίχρωμο όάλινο όαλακό ύφασμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ְרי' ָוי". (various references) | |
Hungarian | Tweed Gyapjúszövet, tweed, skót gyapjúszövet, gyapjúszövet (drab, ottoman, serge, stuff, wool, woolen, woolens, woollen). (various references) | |
Italian | Tweed. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ツーバイフォー工法 (double, tool, tooling, tour, touring, tourist, twin, two piece suit, wood frame construction). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ツイード . (various references) | |
Manx | eaddagh olley (wool cloth), cloh mooar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eedtway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tweed. (various references) | |
Romanian | Stofã Cu Picãţele, Costum De Tweed, Costum De Tuid. (various references) | |
Russian | твид твидовый, Твид. (various references) | |
Scottish | ciseart (a light tweed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvid. (various references) | |
Spanish | tweed. (various references) | |
Swedish | Tweed. (various references) | |
Turkish | Tüvit, Yün Kumaş (worsted). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Твід. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tweed": tweedier, tweediest, tweediness, tweedinesses, tweedle, tweedled, tweedles, tweedling, tweeds, tweedy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tweed": carpetweed, knotweed, smartweed. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tweed": carpetweeds, knotweeds, smartweeds. (additional references) | |
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"Tweed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atween, Lwyd, tawied, tewd, tewe, tewes, tewet, tewte, theed, tseef, twad, twae, twe, twead, tweaj, twed, tweeb, tweef, tweeg, tweek, tweel, tweep, twegen, twer, twere, t'were, twet, twid, twide, twier, twild, twod, twoe, twy, Twyi, Tzedec. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tweed" (pronounced twē"d) |
| 3 | -w ē" d | swede, weed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tewed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-t-w" | |
-1 letter: deet, teed, twee, weed, weet. | |
-2 letters: dee, dew, ewe, ted, tee, tew, wed, wee, wet. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, et, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-t-w" | |
+1 letter: stewed, tweeds, tweedy, weeted, welted, wetted. | |
+2 letters: dewater, dewiest, lewdest, strewed, sweated, tarweed, toweled, towered, tweaked, tweedle, tweeted, tweezed, watered, whetted, wrested. | |
+3 letters: antiweed, bestowed, dewaters, entwined, knotweed, rewetted, tarweeds, towelled, troweled, tweedier, tweedled, tweedles, unwetted, waterbed, wedgiest, weediest, weighted, weirdest, weldment, weltered, westered, whitened, wintered, withered, wreathed, wrestled, wretched, wuthered. | |
+4 letters: bedwetter, bestrewed, bestrowed, bewitched, deepwater, delftware, dewatered, dewaterer, endowment, enswathed, entwisted, headwater, knotweeds, networked, retwisted, shrewdest, smartweed, statewide, stewarded, stickweed, stinkweed, storewide, sweetened, sweltered, swithered, tidewater, towheaded, trowelled, tweediest, tweedling, twittered, underwent, wadsetted, waterbeds, watershed, waterside, waterweed, weathered, weldments, whitehead, wickedest, wieldiest, witchweed, witnessed, woodenest. | |
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