tweeter
See also: Tweeter
English
Alternative forms
- (Twitter user): Tweeter
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtwitɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtwiːtə/
- Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Noun
tweeter (plural tweeters)
- (electronics) An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
- One who or that which makes a tweeting noise.
- 2017, Melody Styles, Heart of the Messenger (part 1)
- The little tweeter birds that had kept her company this morning were now absent, leaving nothing but the whisper of the trees as a light breeze gently wandered by.
- 2017, Melody Styles, Heart of the Messenger (part 1)
- (social media) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.
- 2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.
- (social media, by extension) A poster on a microblogging social networking service.
Translations
An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound
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One who posts tweets on Twitter
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See also
Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (verb)
- IPA(key): /twi.te/
Audio (Paris): (file)
- (noun)
- IPA(key): /twi.tœʁ/
Audio (Paris): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Verb
tweeter
- (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (post to Twitter)
- 2009, Francis Pisani, “Le futur « hybride » des médias”, in Le Monde Blogs:
- J'ai tweeté les idées essentielles et vous pouvez les retrouver sur @transnets.
- I have tweeted the essential ideas and you can find them on @transnets.
- 2014, Hugo Pascual, “Vite, mes gants ! Il faut que je tweete”, in Libération:
- Quatre étudiants américains viennent de mettre au point une paire de gants équipée d'un micro vous permettant de tweeter à toute heure du jour et de la nuit [...]
- Four American students have just developed a pair of gloves fitted with a microphone allowing you to tweet at any time of the day or night [...]
Conjugation
Conjugation of tweeter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tweeter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tweetant /twi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tweeté /twi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tweete /twit/ |
tweetes /twit/ |
tweete /twit/ |
tweetons /twi.tɔ̃/ |
tweetez /twi.te/ |
tweetent /twit/ |
| imperfect | tweetais /twi.tɛ/ |
tweetais /twi.tɛ/ |
tweetait /twi.tɛ/ |
tweetions /twi.tjɔ̃/ |
tweetiez /twi.tje/ |
tweetaient /twi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tweetai /twi.te/ |
tweetas /twi.ta/ |
tweeta /twi.ta/ |
tweetâmes /twi.tam/ |
tweetâtes /twi.tat/ |
tweetèrent /twi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tweeterai /twi.tʁe/ |
tweeteras /twi.tʁa/ |
tweetera /twi.tʁa/ |
tweeterons /twi.tʁɔ̃/ |
tweeterez /twi.tʁe/ |
tweeteront /twi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tweeterais /twi.tʁɛ/ |
tweeterais /twi.tʁɛ/ |
tweeterait /twi.tʁɛ/ |
tweeterions /twi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tweeteriez /twi.tə.ʁje/ |
tweeteraient /twi.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tweete /twit/ |
tweetes /twit/ |
tweete /twit/ |
tweetions /twi.tjɔ̃/ |
tweetiez /twi.tje/ |
tweetent /twit/ |
| imperfect2 | tweetasse /twi.tas/ |
tweetasses /twi.tas/ |
tweetât /twi.ta/ |
tweetassions /twi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tweetassiez /twi.ta.sje/ |
tweetassent /twi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tweete /twit/ |
— | tweetons /twi.tɔ̃/ |
tweetez /twi.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Noun
tweeter m (plural tweeters)
- tweeter (high-frequency speaker)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English tweeter.
Noun
tweeter n (plural tweetere)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | tweeter | tweeterul | tweetere | tweeterele |
| genitive-dative | tweeter | tweeterului | tweetere | tweeterelor |
| vocative | tweeterule | tweeterelor | ||