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tweaktweak /twiːk/ verb [transitive] tweakOrigin: Old English twiccian ‘to pull out’ VERB TABLEtweak |
Present | I, you, we, they | tweak | | he, she, it | tweaks | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tweaked | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tweaked | | he, she, it | has tweaked | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tweaked | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will tweak | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tweaked |
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Present | I | am tweaking | | he, she, it | is tweaking | | you, we, they | are tweaking | Past | I, he, she, it | was tweaking | | you, we, they | were tweaking | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tweaking | | he, she, it | has been tweaking | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tweaking | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tweaking | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tweaking |
- Matthew tweaked her nose and laughed.
- He had tutted and twitched and tweaked, then proceeded to do more for her than she had thought possible.
- He lay in bed and relished the pleasure of happiness, tweaking his fingers and toes with joy.
- Henry leaned forward and tweaked my ear playfully.
- Perhaps you should tweak that line or paragraph that throws the structure off.
- She tweaked Thérèse's earlobe: slow down!
- Then you have to tweak, evaluate, and see what works.
- To make sure, it goes round corners rather than through the hedge, its chassis has been tweaked by Lotus.
1to suddenly pull or twist something: She leant forward and tweaked both ends of his moustache.2to make small changes to a machine, vehicle, or system in order to improve the way it works: Maybe you should tweak a few sentences before you send in the report.—tweak noun [countable usually singular] |