tweak

大学 FREQ #24590

n. 拧, 扭, 焦急 vt. 扭, 开足马力

发音

AU /twiːk/

词形变化

tweaks 复数 tweaks tweaked tweaking tweaks 三单 tweaking 现在分词 tweaked 过去式 tweaked 过去分词

别名

tweague tweag tweek

教材释义与例句

名词

扭;拧;焦急

动词

扭;用力拉;开足马力

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.

    a tweak of the nose

  2. 2.

    A slight adjustment or modification.

    改进

    调整

    微调

    He is running so many tweaks it is hard to remember how it looked originally.

  3. 3.

    Trouble; distress; tweag.

  4. 4.

    A prostitute.

    废旧 俚语
  5. 5.

    Methamphetamine.

    俚语
  6. 6.

    A single inhalation of cocaine.

    俚语
  7. 7.

    An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.

    计算机 工程 数学
v.
  1. 1.

    To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.

    及物

    to tweak the nose.

  2. 2.

    To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.

    调整

    改进

    非正式 及物

    If we tweak the colors towards blue, it will look more natural.

  3. 3.

    To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).

    及物

    Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say.

  4. 4.

    To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.

    美国 不及物 俚语
  5. 5.

    To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.

    美国 不及物 俚语
  6. 6.

    To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is happening.

    不及物 俚语 引申义

    Am I tweaking or does 2020 feel like 6 months ago?

  7. 7.

    From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.

    工程 政治 军事

词汇关系

相关短语

词源

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

来源:wiktionary