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tweet
(encz) | tweet,pípání n: Zdeněk Brož |
tweet
(wn) | tweet
n 1: a weak chirping sound as of a small bird
v 1: make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting
in the tree" [syn: tweet, twirp]
2: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind";
"She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge,
tweet, nip, twitch] |
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tweeter
(encz) | tweeter,vysokotónový reproduktor n: [tech.] Jan Blažek |
weet-weet
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
[1913 Webster]
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
[1913 Webster]Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [So called from its piping cry when
disturbed.] (Zool.)
(a) The common European sandpiper.
(b) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [Native name in Victoria.]
A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines,
consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a
flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is
about two feet long.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Weet-weet
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
[1913 Webster]
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
[1913 Webster]Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [So called from its piping cry when
disturbed.] (Zool.)
(a) The common European sandpiper.
(b) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Weet-weet \Weet"-weet`\, n. [Native name in Victoria.]
A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines,
consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a
flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is
about two feet long.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
tweeter
(wn) | tweeter
n 1: a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency
sounds; "the sound system had both tweeters and woofers" |
tweeter
(foldoc) | woofer
tweeter
(University of Waterloo) Some varieties of wide paper
for printers have a perforation 8.5 inches from the left
margin that allows the 3.5 inch excess on the right-hand side
to be torn off when the print format is 80 columns or less
wide. If done with sufficient aplomb this makes a sound like
the "woof" of a dog. If the large part is the "woofer" then
the small part must obviously be the "tweeter", following the
names for the large and small cones in a hi-fi loudspeaker.
These terms have been in use at Waterloo since 1972, but are
unknown elsewhere.
Compare chad.
[Jargon File]
(1997-03-21)
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