What's the difference between frob and tweak?

Frob


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bankia needed a further €4.5bn emergency injection of capital from Spain's state FROB rescue fund on Monday as it prepared itself for the eurozone bailout.
  • (2) Spain already had a restructuring fund for its banks – known as FROB – which will provide the resources for the recapitalisation of Bankia.
  • (3) "While the restructuring process is completed, the Frob intends to inject capital shortly," it said.
  • (4) The judge has also summoned the former governor of the Bank of Spain , the president of Stock Market National Commission, the Deloitte partner who worked for Bankia and the legal representative of the Frob (Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria) to testify.
  • (5) The decision to use the Frob to inject capital into Bankia rather than an emergency facility set aside by the eurozone rescue fund, came as the finance ministry failed to give full details of what losses would be born by shareholders and small investors who bought hybrid preference shares in banks that receive eurozone money.
  • (6) The Fund for the Orderly Bank Restructuring (Frob) said Bankia's restructuring plan should be ready by October, allowing eurozone rescue money to arrive in November.
  • (7) Lisp combined with the FROBS expert system shell permitted a declarative representation of each of the components of the experiment, resulting in a transplant specification of the problem within a maintainable system.
  • (8) A single intravenous introduction of prospidin-C14 was found to be followed by its quick (in 2 hours) disappearance frob the blood.
  • (9) However, De Guindos said Spain's most troubled bank, Bankia, will get urgent aid and the country's bailout fund, the FROB, said it was injecting €4.5bn into the ailing lender.
  • (10) The money will be funnelled through Spain's existing bailout fund, called the Frob, and will add to the country's modest but quickly growing national debt with the government "retaining the full responsibility".
  • (11) Spain asked for the money to go to its FROB bank rescue fund, increasing the national debt.

Tweak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
  • (n.) A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
  • (n.) Trouble; distress; tweag.
  • (n.) A prostitute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
  • (2) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
  • (3) That's likely to mean a tweak in set-up – most likely Vidal will play in more of an advanced role, with Silva adding extra ballast in behind him.
  • (4) Figures from the Halifax showing a 2.4% rise in prices in February could put pressure on the chancellor to announce tweaks to Help to Buy in next week's budget.
  • (5) And we will report back on how we are doing and we might have to tweak, but this is what we are aiming for."
  • (6) Once humans have gained "total mastery over morphological genetics", post-60,000 years from now, we'll be tweaking our children's DNA so that they're born with straight noses, regal lines and perfect facial symmetry.
  • (7) The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, secured Fabio Borini from Roma last week and is still hoping to tweak his squad before the new season, retaining interest in Fulham's Clint Dempsey and the Swansea City midfielder Joe Allen, and any money from Carroll's sale would bolster the funds at his disposal.
  • (8) "That essentially is just a group of people agreeing on tweaking things and making them a little bit different.
  • (9) The results are stunning and include precise measurements of the matter content of the universe and a tweak to the best estimate for its age.
  • (10) The Observer view on tax credit cuts | Observer editorial Read more “These are very significant changes and therefore I am sure the chancellor is keeping an open mind and will be looking to see whether any specific tweaks need to be made in the comprehensive spending review which takes place next month,” he said.
  • (11) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).
  • (12) So let us tweak the question slightly and ask: what is the point of Jimmy Carr?
  • (13) The show's storylines were tweaked to take account of the new post-watershed slot.
  • (14) Osborne won limited support for "technical" tweaks to the draft legislation , although it appeared unlikely that Britain would make big gains in seeking to reverse the key points.
  • (15) The Department for Transport unveiled several tweaks to the first stage of the HS2 route to mollify opponents in the wealthy commuter belt north and west of London.
  • (16) To Geldof’s credit, he has said some of the lyrics will be tweaked slightly for this new version.
  • (17) She has been staying in the Y:Cube temporarily as a test to help the architects tweak the interior design.
  • (18) The engineers have put a brave face on the crash landings, tweaking navigation software, landing trajectories and other details based on each test.
  • (19) It may also offer tweaked devices to get around any injunction: "Samsung has already made some design changes to new products since the litigation first started more than a year ago," said Seo Won-seok, an analyst at Korea Investment & Securities.
  • (20) What they are prepared to do is tweak the existing doctrine," said Rebecca Johnson, the head of the Acronym Institute, a pro-disarmament pressure group.