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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tweet

1845, imitative of the sound made by a small bird. As a verb by 1872. Related: Tweeted; tweeting. As the word for what one does on the Twitter microblogging service, by 2007.

Wiktionary
tweet

n. 1 The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. 2 (context Internet English) An entry posted on the microblogging service http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Twitter. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. 2 (context ambitransitive Internet English) To post an update to Twitter.

WordNet
tweet
  1. n. a week chirping sound as of a small bird

  2. v. make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting in the tree" [syn: twirp]

  3. squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge, nip, twitch]

Wikipedia
Tweet (singer)

Charlene Keys (born January 21, 1972), better known by the stage name Tweet, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Tweet

Tweet may refer to:

  • Tweet (bird call), a type of bird vocalization
  • "Tweet", a message sent using Twitter

Usage examples of "tweet".

As the couple walked up to their Buick, two mockingbirds flew away from its grill, one of them tweeting in a little-known dialect of the goldfinch, the other mixing a catbird cry with a raspy chord borrowed from a woodpecker.

Tweet recrowned himself with his new Stetson, turned, and strolled impressively toward his tent, disappearing between its lazily flapping portals.

Lucy Dalles had left him, tingling blissfully in every vein, the mundane thought that Tweet was probably awaiting him in the lodging house had obtruded itself and hurried him up the street.

I heard lots of yowling and tweeting, and then the black-haired man threw back his left arm and plunged the stake into my waist on my right side.

There was another whistling, tweeting conversation, then Ben-e turned and faced the two men.

It was only when Ben-e had recited a long list of his underground contacts, complete with names, places and dates, followed by a lengthy dialogue in tweeting android-speak, that they grudgingly admitted that they might just possibly know something about the Life Game.

The android handlers had also hooked in to each other and were tweeting and warbling in a low, almost secretive fashion.

Chase knew what he was hearing: the ghostly hoots and avian chirrups, the whistles and tweets, the lovely, lilting conversation between leviathans.

The whispering grew, and was suddenly shot through with myriad tweets and twitters.

While the little bird upon the leafless branches Tweets to its mate a tiny loving note.

First hymn and she imitated the others, standing when they stood, sitting when they sat, praying when they prayed but always to the Blessed Mother, listened to the sermon that the Reverend Tweet stuttered, completely undone by her presence.

She never complained though, just tweeted rather limp-sounding thanks when Dane caught her just as she was about to trip or fall.

He watched every bird, every stir in the trembling grass, answered the whinneying of the pee-wits and tweeted to the wrens.

If he could, he also would have whinnied and tweeted and whistled, in a native language that was not human.

Bees buzzed, birds tweeted and I felt glad for travelling light with only my vanity case.