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Tweak vs. Twit — What's the Difference?

Tweak vs. Twit — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tweak and Twit

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Tweak

Twist or pull (something) sharply
He tweaked the boy's ear

Twit

A silly or foolish person.

Tweak

Improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it
Engineers tweak the car's operating systems during the race

Twit

A state of agitation or nervous excitement
We're in a twit about your visit

Tweak

Become or cause to become agitated or excited, typically from taking amphetamines or another stimulant
I just about went crazy yesterday—I was totally tweaking out
Caffeine is a natural mood elevator but if you're stressed to begin with it can kind of tweak you out
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Twit

Tease or taunt (someone), especially in a good-humoured way
Her playmates could not twit her about her pigtail

Tweak

A sharp twist or pull
An affectionate tweak

Twit

(Informal) A foolishly annoying person.

Tweak

A fine adjustment to a mechanism or system
No tweaks were required

Twit

A reproach, gibe, or taunt.

Tweak

To pinch, pluck, or twist sharply
Tweaked her sister's ear.

Twit

To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults
"The schoolmaster was twitted about the lady who threw him over" (J.M. Barrie).

Tweak

To adjust; fine-tune
Tweaked her computer setup.

Twit

(transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.

Tweak

To make fun of; tease.

Twit

To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).

Tweak

To behave in an agitated or compulsive manner, especially when under the influence of a stimulant drug.

Twit

A reproach, gibe or taunt.

Tweak

To be under the influence of a stimulant drug, especially methamphetamine.

Twit

A foolish or annoying person.

Tweak

A sharp, twisting pinch.

Twit

A person who twitters, i.e. chatters inanely.

Tweak

A small adjustment
Made a few tweaks to the sound system.

Twit

To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
This these scoffers twitted the Christians with.
Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss.

Tweak

A teasing remark or action; a joke.

Twit

Someone who is regarded as contemptible

Tweak

(transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
To tweak the nose.

Twit

Aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

Tweak

To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.

Twit

Harass with persistent criticism or carping;
The children teased the new teacher
Don't ride me so hard over my failure
His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie

Tweak

(transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).

Tweak

To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.

Tweak

To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.

Tweak

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
A tweak of the nose

Tweak

A slight adjustment or modification.
He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.

Tweak

Trouble; distress; tweag.

Tweak

A prostitute.

Tweak

(cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.

Tweak

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

Tweak

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.

Tweak

Trouble; distress; tweag.

Tweak

A prostitute.

Tweak

A squeeze with the fingers

Tweak

Pinch or squeeze sharply

Tweak

Pull or pull out sharply;
Pluck the flowers off the bush

Tweak

Adjust finely;
Fine-tune the engine

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