(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.
Twig
Definition:
(v. t.) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
(v. t.) To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
(v. t.) To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
(n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
(v. t.) To beat with twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(2) The twig was removed, and calcium-dextrose and penicillin G were administered.
(3) At least 114 of the women at UTH induce abortion themselves by inserting plants or twigs into the cervix.
(4) But let’s talk about twigs (Formerly Known As Tahliah).
(5) These findings suggest that the inflow of blood into the common carotid body artery may be regulated by its constriction, especially of its arterial cushion, and that the subsidiary branches of the common carotid body artery and the accessory twigs of the proper carotid body artery may act as bypass-routes to eliminate the excessive inflow of blood into the carotid body.
(6) All recordings showed abnormal jitter, many (75%) displayed intermittent blocking, and most had abnormal fibre density (mean 4.3), demonstrating considerable degrees of collateral sprouting supported by the fasciculating motor units, and varying degrees of functional immaturity of the new axonal twigs and the motor end plates.
(7) Responses of single muscle fibres to electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve trunk or of the intramuscular nerve twigs were detected in young volunteers without evidence of neurological disease.
(8) The double afferent arterioles arose separately from a terminal twig of the interlobular artery and reached the vascular pole of a subcapsular glomerulus which possessed a single efferent arteriole.
(9) The bulbospongiosus and the transversus perinei superficialis receive several twigs from the medial and intermediate cutaneous branches of the perineal nerve.
(10) Except for one patient the accessory renal arteries missed at angiography were tiny twigs; the small renal infarcts caused by ligating them did not impair transplant survival.
(11) The shape of the lobulus testis is indicated by the centripetal branch with its centrifugal twigs.
(12) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
(13) A ventral twig of SO innervates the ventral snout (normally IO territory) and projects into the electroreceptive lateral line lobe in an IO pattern.
(14) Eleven months old and with a squidgy layer of puppy fat still on show, she’s busy tying me in knots with a lead and is clearly no dummy – within minutes she has twigged that I have a stash of dog-chews in my bag and is clearly hatching a plan to get at them.
(15) If the prosecutor asked the court to burn Pussy Riot at the stake, I can just picture the courtroom staff running around, gathering twigs and lighter fluid.
(16) An olfactory nerve twig produced a different magnitude of responses to the various odor stimuli.
(17) If coracoid mobilization is necessary, the musculocutaneous nerve and its twigs should be identified and protected, keeping in mind the variations in anatomy and the level of penetration.
(18) A preparation has been developed in the pigeon which allows recording of the electrical activity from an olfactory nerve twig containing the nonmyelinated axons of a small group of olfactory receptor cells.
(19) Gamma irradiation resulted in pale, foamy cytoplasmic vesicles, the separation of smooth muscle cells and changes in the structure of the luminal aspect of arterial blood vessels while neutron irradiation produced dense cytoplasmic vesicles and electron dense bodies within the substance of peripheral nerve twigs.
(20) Morphological adaptations to climbing (a scansorial mode of quadrupedal, arboreal locomotion practised on twigs and small branches) are identified by relating anatomical details of limb bones to a sample of 6,136 instantaneous observational recordings on the positional behavior and support uses of 20 different free-ranging, adult red howlers.