Crossword clues for tweeter
tweeter
- Speaker's pretty terse before start of speech
- Speaker's dainty half-sister
- Speaker who gives brief messages
- Speaker taking to social media?
- Rather cute, short word for loudspeaker
- High frequency loudspeaker
- Woofer's counterpart
- Woofer's partner
- Woofer's opposite
- Small speaker
- Modern poster
- Active Twitter user, or a chirpy bird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"loudspeaker for high frequencies," 1934, agent noun from tweet (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound. 2 (cx internet English) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.
WordNet
n. a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds; "the sound system had both tweeters and woofers"
Wikipedia
A tweeter or treble speaker is a special type of loudspeaker (usually dome or horn-type) that is designed to produce high audio frequencies, typically from around 2,000 Hz to 20,000 Hz (generally considered to be the upper limit of human hearing). Specialty tweeters can deliver high frequencies up to 100 kHz. The name is derived from the high pitched sounds made by some birds, especially in contrast to the low woofs made by many dogs, after which low-frequency drivers are named ( woofers).
Tweeter, formerly Tweeter Etc. and Tweeter Home Entertainment, was a specialty consumer electronics retailer providing mid and high end electronic equipment, including flat panel TVs, plasma TVs, car radios, home theater systems, GPSs and more. It also focused much of its business on custom installation of electronics for homes and automobiles.
The company had more than 100 stores in 18 U.S. states, mostly along the east coast, but also including Illinois, Texas, California, Nevada and Arizona, operating under the names Tweeter, HiFi Buys, Showcase Home Entertainment and Sound Advice.
The company was founded by Sandy Bloomberg who opened the first store in the Boston area in 1972, and the company quickly expanded throughout New England.
Tweeter continued expanding largely through acquisitions, the first of these being Bryn Mawr Stereo in 1996. It then added Atlanta-based HiFi Buys in 1997, San Diego based DOW Stereo/Video in 1999, Chicago-based United Audio Center and Douglas TV stores in 2000 and Florida-based Sound Advice in 2001. These acquisitions gave Tweeter an instant presence in the Southeast and Midwest during a booming housing market.
In March 2007, Tweeter announced the closing of 49 stores and the layoffs of 650 employees, and shuttered all of its stores in California and most of its stores in the Southeast. In June 2007 Tweeter Home Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and its assets were purchased by Schultze Asset Management at auction on July 13, 2007, after a failed reorganization plan. Schultze reformed the company as Tweeter Opco LLC.
After an attempt to revive the company, Tweeter Opco filed for Chapter 11 on November 5, 2008. Prior to filing the company had started going out of business sales in anticipation of the holiday season. However, a dispute among creditors regarding operating cash to continue the sales forced the closure of all stores on December 3, 2008, the firing of all 600 employees and the company filed a conversion of its Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation. Customers reported paid goods and deposits were part of frozen assets which eventually forced them to file as creditors in the liquidation.
A tweeter is a loudspeaker designed to produce high frequencies.
Tweeter may also refer to:
- Tweeter, an active user of the website Twitter
- Tweeter (store), a defunct electronics retail chain in the United States
- Tweeter Center (disambiguation), the former name of several buildings
- Tweeter, name of Karen Baldwin's pet bird in Mundanes in Xanth
Usage examples of "tweeter".
The truth was that Tweeter was comforting her as much as she was comforting him.
And Tweeter had warned them about the approach of the flying monsters, back at the rest stop.
I hope you will remain close by, when we go out of the RV, and will also warn us, as Tweeter did, when the situation warrants.
Karen had managed to impress on Midrange that any bite out of the bird would swiftly lead to a worse bite out of the cat, so Tweeter was tolerated unmolested.
So maybe Tweeter figured the cat would understand his concerns better than human beings would.
Midrange batted at those that approached Sean, and Tweeter flapped his wings with annoyance.
But that should improve when Tweeter left his associate and went with Woofer.
So Woofer, the big male idiot, had followed her, and Tweeter had had to go along lest they be separated.
It had been fun meeting Roxanne Roc and playing with Sim Chick, and Tweeter had taught Sim some dirty bird jokes that no nonbird would understand.
He had not liked losing possession of Woofer and Tweeter, or getting disconnected by the reverse wood, or losing his windbreaker jacket.
The berries looked good to Tweeter too, so he stayed with her, riding on her head.
But Tweeter knew she was braced for possible trouble, with her crossbow near at hand.
But as its burning snoot oriented, a monstrous image of Tweeter appeared before them.
Chlorine put some peanut butter on her finger for Tweeter to eat, and it was good, because there were some peanut chunks in it.
Then she sat on Nimby dragon, and Tweeter perched on her hair, and she invoked the crime against nature.