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tweet

sostantivoverbointeriezioneattestato nei dialoghi

  • //ˈtwiːt//
  • /[ˈtʰwɪi̯t]/

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

sostantivo

  1. 1

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

    [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.

  2. 2

    An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

    Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.

    For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.

    A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]

  3. 3

    An entry on any microblogging service.

    He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

Etimologia

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).

verbo

  1. 1

    To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.

    [Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.

  2. 2

    To post an entry to Twitter.

    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.

    =Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

    First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.

  3. 3

    To post an entry to any microblogging site.

    In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social

    As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”

interiezione

  1. 1

    used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.

    I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds

Forme

plurale
tweets
passato
tweeted, twote
participio passato
tweeted, twote, twoten
participio presente
tweeting
3ª persona singolare
tweets
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

Posizione tra le parole del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — sottotitoli di film e serie, quindi lingua parlata e non scritta (CC BY-SA 3.0).