(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.
Twinge
Definition:
(v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
(v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
(v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
(n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
(n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
Example Sentences:
(1) The archive goes back to how Vietnam began to embarrass the US ("a twinge in the public relations nerve" - Mary McCarthy), the womens' liberation movement (illustrated by a tense, and often hilarious, debate between Norman Mailer and Susan Sontag in which she pulls him up on his use of the word "ladies") and George W Bush's invasion of Iraq (the NYRB was the only major publication to oppose the war from the off).
(2) He’s not able to play three games in a week.” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe signs contract extension Read more Agüero damaged the left hamstring representing Argentina against Ecuador , nine days after feeling a twinge following the Champions League win in Mönchengladbach .
(3) Certainly Paris Saint-Germain – aside from being encouraged by the twinge to the right thigh suffered by John Terry which forced him prematurely from the fray and will require a scan on Sunday – will have learned little other than that the Premier League champions can still be expansive when permitted to revel.
(4) The funny things I remember all have a twinge of sorrow to them.
(5) But when future generations download the recordings, and listen to skylarks and nightingales, cuckoos and turtle doves, will they feel a twinge of sadness that these species are no longer with us?
(6) The Belgian, sufferer of a calf twinge against Southampton last week, was introduced for the final quarter – another boost for Guardiola before Barcelona visit the Etihad.
(7) Reading Scotland's Future, I couldn't at first account for a faint twinge of melancholy, a recognition.
(8) We’re having lunch in Winzavod, a fashionable ex-factory art space in Moscow where they have their office, and I almost feel a twinge of pity for those prison officials.
(9) You had to feel a twinge of pity for Lord Stevenson, who was the chairman of HBOS when it went down the khazi in 2008.
(10) To stay at a club where the fans love you is really important to me.” He is adamant he will not feel even a twinge of jealousy for Klopp.
(11) As I sit in the sun in the little peace garden finally eating my lentil dhal and nursing what is no more than a twinge in the small of the back, I can see what she means.
(12) Just as Ree Dolly is at her most beguiling when her mask momentarily slips, and her face briefly twinges with trauma and adolescent uncertainty, the usually formidable Lawrence's childish vulnerability is her most affecting quality.
(13) Touré was substituted before the end because of a slight twinge in his groin but Pellegrini did not seem too concerned it might prevent his midfielder from playing against Chelsea on Sunday.
(14) Some people may feel a twinge of sadness at some of the items that went the other way – VHS video players, MiniDisc players, local newspapers, nests of tables, bread bins, and jigsaw puzzles have all been removed from the basket in recent years.
(15) The tragedy is, just as not a single doctor in India who helped pregnant women get rid of their girl children will ever be held accountable for what has become an enormous social problem, it is doubtful if any UK doctors will ever feel a twinge of guilt over sex-selective abortion either, regardless of the consequences.
(16) Walker says he had "little twinges" when he saw the Mercury, but says that strikingly his health was good in the days afterwards: if he had made a big mistake, the stress would have manifested itself in stronger symptoms.
(17) Now the veil has been ripped away and we know there are a sizeable number of Tory MPs who are willing to do serious damage to David Cameron and feel no twinge of disloyalty."
(18) Part of me was really annoyed because he hadn't called me back for, like, a month and then I saw him and had this tiny burned twinge of hurt, but it disappeared within a minute because that sort of family bond is so much deeper than any other bond.
(19) Occasionally, however, disturbing sensations, such as "metallic taste", "twinging or stabbing" and "minute electric shock" are reported.
(20) The slightest twinge and I wonder if that's it, if I'm dying right there and then.