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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tweak
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Matthew tweaked her nose and laughed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tweak

Tweak \Tweak\, v. t. [OE. twikken, originally the same word as twicchen; cf. LG. twikken. See Twitch.] To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
--Shak.

Tweak

Tweak \Tweak\, n.

  1. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
    --Swift.

  2. Trouble; distress; tweag. [Obs.]

  3. A prostitute. [Obs.]
    --Brathwait.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tweak

"pinch, pluck, twist," usually to the nose, c.1600, probably from Middle English twikken "to draw, tug, pluck" (mid-15c.), from Old English twiccian "to pluck," of obscure origin; perhaps related to twitch. Meaning "to make fine adjustments" is attested from 1966. Related: Tweaked; tweaking.

tweak

c.1600, "a twitch, a pluck," from tweak (v.). As "a fine adjustment" by 1989.

Wiktionary
tweak

n. 1 A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. 2 trouble; distress; tweag. 3 A slight adjustment or modification. 4 (context obsolete slang English) A prostitute. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. 2 (context transitive informal English) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.

WordNet
tweak
  1. n. a squeeze with the fingers [syn: pinch]

  2. v. pinch or squeeze sharply

  3. pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush" [syn: pluck, pull off, pick off]

  4. adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine" [syn: fine-tune]

Wikipedia
Tweak (band)

Tweak was an Alternative rock band from South Africa. Members of the band formed Crashcarburn after members parted ways in 2006 to pursue personal projects.

Usage examples of "tweak".

We found that when we manipulated the tweaker, we were actually choosing a descriptor, pulling it from the cloud, and changing it directly.

That means storing some results in the unused descriptors within the tweaker.

She smoothed on a layer of makeup and erased the more prominent lines, applied mascara and lip gloss, tweaked and ruffled her hair into an approximation of what Dick Dart had accomplished.

None of this is as obvious as it sounds, since the entire stack is slowly rotating in rotisserie mode during the entire time, occasional tweaks aligning the stack for better heating or cooling purposes.

She lifted her hips, taking his cock deeper as he continued to flick her clit lazily, tweaking and tugging on it until she was whimpering and straining.

Ryan, plumply incongruous in his green glitter suit, was snorting with effort before he had taken a dozen paces, and Benger, who was still tweaking himself, kept leaping in the air and emitting yelps of pain.

Gradually, the claws on my sash, the milkweed pods, everything else prodding between our tightlocked bodies tweaked into more comfortable positions and drifted out of my consciousness.

With some internal rerouting of signals, he had tweaked another millisecond or two off the blocking field buildup time, but it was still essentially half a second too slow.

Though the sound quality was poor, by tweaking the parametric equalizers, and pumping up the compressors, most of the conversation became audible.

Having busted Dawn twice when she was a tweak monster on crystal meth, and hearing that she was now, heavy into speedballs, Letch figured she was ripe to roll over on her pimp.

The secret, sustaining garden, my illicit fantasy having nothing to do with lucre or lust, was that by tweaking a few knobs, by having just these two friends, by clearing a space as wide as possible in my unstretched heart, the last living woman in Brooklyn Heights might contain multitudes, might grow to fill the dense bruise of killer buildings carefully designed to eat me.

From this budget came money to build a larger laboratory in Melas Dorsa, for research on constructing larger versions of tweaker mirror matter drives.

Terman tweaked his test to close a gender gap but not the interethnic differences.

It was exiled before the others tweaked their neurochemistry into more sensitive modes.

She leered at Plautus and he reached to tweak one of her prominent nipples as she laughed and swung away.