Definition of tweet
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: a chirping note
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: a post made on the Twitter online message service
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Recent Examples of tweet from the Web
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The motherhood line serves another, older purpose: These tweets and op-eds and statements are also venerations of the nuclear family.
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Friday afternoon, the tweets and Facebook posts by Undefeated containing the logo had been deleted.
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The announcement was made with no advance warning, something that won’t happen very often in this age of instant tweets and ubiquitous text messaging.
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The Carters often position themselves as equals to institutions and corporations, willing to take on the N.F.L., Spotify and a presidential tweet.
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And those without access to the streaming service got a little creative by scrolling through tweets to learn what the album was all about.
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None of this can be solved by angry tweets or by using these families as leverage.
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Another Hartford Line tweet announced the line could no longer accept new customers that day.
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All of which might explain this cryptic tweet from Lakers owner Jeanie Buss this week.
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Origin and Etymology of tweet
imitative
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First Known Use: 1768
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of tweet
tweeted;
tweeting;
tweets
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: to make a chirping sound
- birds tweeting in the trees
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: to post a message to the Twitter online message service
Recent Examples of tweet from the Web
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One Uber employee discovered this new feature when ordering a ride and tweeted about it, as first reported by Quartz.
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McCain spoke highly of the company throughout 2015, promoting Theranos’s work in Arizona and tweeting a photo of himself with Holmes on the very day the Wall Street Journal’s first exposé went to print.
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Trump most recently met with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and tweeted this message: The World has taken a big step back from potential Nuclear catastrophe!
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Jan Hutchinson, Director of Programs at Centre for Mental Health, tweeted a couple of photos of Middleton at the function.
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Larson was one of the first actresses to weigh in on the study when it was published a few days ago, tweeting a link to it on Monday and using the hashtag #InclusionCrisis.
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Sanford, by contrast, has been critical of Donald Trump, provoking the president to tweet in favor of the congressman’s opponent just hours before voting ended.
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The photo was tweeted by Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert.
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The photo, released Saturday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Instagram account and later tweeted by Trump national security advisor John Bolton, fast became a Rorschach test for an increasingly troubled relationship.
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First Known Use of tweet
1851
TWEET Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of tweet for English Language Learners
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: a short, high sound
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: a brief message that someone writes on the Internet using a service called Twitter
tweet
Definition of tweet for English Language Learners
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: to make a short, high sound
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: to write a brief message (called a tweet) on the Internet using a service called Twitter
TWEET Defined for Kids
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