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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tween

also 'tween, c.1300 as an abbreviation of between. As a noun meaning "child nearing puberty" (approximately ages 9 to 12), attested by 1988, in this case by influence of teen. Tolkien uses it in "Lord of the Rings" for "the irresponsible twenties between [Hobbit] childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Earlier in this sense was subteen (1952). Related: Tweens. Tweenie or tweeny was a term (late 19c.-early 20c.) for "between-maid, a servant who assists two others" and was used in reference to other persons or objects in intermediary situations. And 'tween-age (adj.) was used in descriptions of clothing from 1937. Tween-ager is attested from 1946.

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tween

Etymology 1 n. (context animation English) An action of '''tweening''' (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening. vb. (context cinematography English) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement. Etymology 2

n. A person who is neither a young child nor an adolescent, one of an age in the range of 10 to 12 years old or a similar range.

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Tween (disambiguation)

A tween is a human in the stage of preadolescence, between early childhood and adolescence.

Tween may also refer to:

  • Tween (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature in the Dungeon & Dragons series
  • Tween (software), a Twitter client for Microsoft Windows
  • Tween Brands, a store brand targeting the preteen market owned by Ascena Retail Group
  • Tween, a sequence of frames in inbetweening animation that gives the appearance of motion
  • Brand name of several laboratory detergents:
    • Tween 20
    • Tween 40
    • Tween 60
    • Tween 80
Tween (software)

Tween is a Twitter client for Microsoft Windows, and written in Visual Basic .NET. It is one of the most popular Twitter clients in Japan, and it is Open Source.

Tween (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the tween is a type of extraplanar creature.

Tween (Wye Oak album)

Tween is the fifth studio album by indie band Wye Oak. It was released digitally on June 9, 2016 by Merge Records in the United States. The physical album will be officially released on August 5, 2016.

Tween is unique in that all the songs were "written, scrapped, and re-purposed" by Wye Oak in between the years 2011 and 2014. Therefore, the tracks for the album are all remnants from their past albums Civilian and Shriek.

Usage examples of "tween".

He was groomed from cubhood to take over for one of his parents, according to his talents and interests, but something went wrong when he was a tweener.

Inside this, a young male Ykx in his late tweens packing for his wingride, a nursling cub crawling about on the floor dragging with her a much chewed rubbery grubber doll.

The individual either responds to the training and becomes a Shadow or does not respond and so gams only the educational benefits that enable him to become a Tweener.

At an early date the mealworms also pave the way for the crucial interview be tween Messrs.

As soon as you understand the situation you will be returned to the Tweener capital, and events will proceed as before, except that we hope you will understand that it is absolutely vital that the Tweeners be victorious over the Shadows.

Tween us and the frogs and the limeys and the Bodies, we musta done fired every artillery shell in the world 'bout ten times over.

She shook herself awake and headed downslope after Deymorin and the boy, who were once again swinging along the trail, carrying the encapsulator on a sling be tween them.

I made me a fine profit offn them two contrac's, and there's two less moufs to be fed to boot What all thet fine, upstanding merchant does oncet he's out'n this dang Confedrashun's tween him and his burklord.