Crossword clues for tweedle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tweedle \Twee"dle\, v. t. [Cf. Twiddle.] [Written also twidle.]
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To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.
--Addison. To twist. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context obsolete UK dialect English) to twist 2 (context obsolete English) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward fiddle. 3 (context obsolete by extension English) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. 4 (''mistakenly?'') to twiddle vb. 1 (context obsolete UK dialect English) to twist 2 (context obsolete English) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward fiddle. 3 (context obsolete by extension English) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. 4 (''mistakenly?'') to twiddle
WordNet
v. sing in modulation [syn: chirp]
play negligently on a musical instrument
entice through the use of music
Usage examples of "tweedle".
And pathos and bathos delightful to see, And chop and change ribs, a-la-mode Germanorum, And high diddle ho diddle, pop tweedle dee.
Meli now had half a dozen of them twining about her arms and shoulders and throat, while she herself did an undulating, serpentine, suggestive dance to the tweedling cornet music.
A band of twenty instruments whomped and umpawpawed and tweedled as the crowd milled into place.
Within this region, space and time recoupled and contracted inward with the imploding core to simulate for an instant the bizarre, inverted conditions of an antiuniverse, and in that instant a large portion of the tweedles liberated in the process transformed into antitweedles which, under the prevailing high-energy conditions, combined preferentially into antiquarks and antileptons rather than radiation.
And it was the duality of universes, each exhibiting a spacetime decomposed into two discrete dimensions, which gave rise to the two-way duality manifested by tweedles and antitweedles: Dums, dees, antidums, and antidees were simply spacelike, timelike, antispacelike, and antitimelike projections of the same fundamental entity existing in the timeless, spaceless domain of tweedlespace.
First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the direful bone, Him the pleasant banks of sweetly-winding Stour had nourished, where he first learnt the vocal art, with which, wandering up and down at wakes and fairs, he cheered the rural nymphs and swains, when upon the green they interweaved the sprightly dance.
And it explained why the electrical charges on quarks and leptons were equal: They were carried by the same tweedles.
As Tim Trimm variously tweedled softly and blasted rollickingly, Monsieur Roulette did leaps and twists and turnovers that seemed to gainsay his having any bones in his body or any obligation to the law of gravity.
It followed that “antitweedles” didn’t necessarily give an antiparticle, and tweedles didn’t always make a particle.
There were grounds for supposing that if an expanding nodule of disentangled space and time were introduced arbitrarily through some mechanism—pictured by some people as a bubble appearing in soda water, although this wasn’t really accurate—the reduced “pressure” inside the bubble would trigger the condensation of raw tweedlestuff out of “tweedlespace” as an explosion of tweedles and antitweedles, the tweedles preserving the “timelike” aspect, and the antitweedles the “antitimelike” aspect of the timeless domain from which they originated.
The way to obtain antimatter, they therefore reasoned, would be to make a small part of the universe look like an antiuniverse so that tweedlespace could be “fooled” into projecting antitweedles instead of tweedles into it.
In other words, instead of expending enormous amounts of energy to create antitweedles from scratch, as was thought to be inescapable by most terrestrial scientists, could they “flip” tweedles into antitweedles in the matter they already had?