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verb (used with object)

to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.

to pull or pinch the nose of, especially gently: He tweaked the baby on greeting.

to make a minor adjustment to: to tweak a computer program.

noun

an act or instance of tweaking; a sharp, twisting pull or jerk.

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Origin:
1595–1605; akin to twitch

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The bottom line: by all means use a calibration disc to tweak your set.

I'd expect the accuracy to improve as they continue to tweak the service.

The government is trying to tweak the system to make it work better.

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The bottom line: by all means use a calibration disc to tweak your set.

I'd expect the accuracy to improve as they continue to tweak the service.

The government is trying to tweak the system to make it work better.

Learn how to tweak your toilet and tap to save water.

Sure, you could continuously tweak a skill, but that effort is at the expense of other possible efforts.

Marm didn't so much join the underworld as tweak it to her preference, treating crime itself as a commodity to barter.

Plan the design on paper and then tweak it at planting time.

The ability to tweak well-known characters for modern times makes fairy tales particularly seductive.

Suppose scientists could figure out how to tweak the insula without damaging it.

The dean can then tweak their recommendation somewhat, and then work out the rest of the negotiable details.

After all, a tweak in the federal funds rate counts for little by itself.

All forms of learning and memory rely on synaptic plasticity, the ability of the brain to tweak the connections between neurons.

The small squares are also easy to amend when he wants to tweak the soil for a particular crop, he says.

It's amazing sometimes what one simple design tweak can do for a product.

Now a wave of mobile applications is letting people tweak their cellphone snapshots and share them with friends and strangers.

Waiting for technology to tweak better in its next iteration is foolish.

All governments find it tempting to tweak the numbers they are judged by.

But other chemicals produced by the human body more subtly tweak the neural pathways underlying these distinctions.

We tweak our stories so that they become better stories.

And since you can't tweak the wine, you have to tweak the food.

It is far from clear that one tweak to the treaty is enough to win them over.

So then you tweak these parameters to fit a time series of climate data.

Some computer audio programs already offer to tweak brain rhythms, including theta oscillations, with sound.

If not, they know they have to tweak the algorithm as they have been for years.

Just goes to show that you can tweak historical data to get any desired outcome you want.

They don't cause users to hallucinate, rather, they tweak reality.

But they're not the only ones who tweak al-Qaida's online fan base.

I've loaded no outside apps or any of the tweak geeky things that jailbreaking lets one do.

Stuxnet was already available on malware sites for anyone with malicious intent to download and tweak.

Cosmetics makers are using pheromones to tweak the rules of attraction.

She's hoping to tweak that list, but apparently she can't submit a list of appropriate subject headings.

But it might be possible to tweak the production process to reduce the presence of the allergens.

But tweak a few genes and those basic requirements can diminish or even disappear.

But first we'll be able to tweak them into our own special versions.

But tweak the shape a little and update the color scheme and it's even better.

The department is expected to further tweak its proposed language and come back with more revisions later in the week.

Economies of scale will develop and armies of engineers will tweak them to make them better and cheaper still.

The federal government has had to tweak its safety rules and weight guidelines to reflect the fattening of the nation.

Once they get to an underwriter's desk, some will queue for an hour or more waiting to tweak the tiniest detail in a contract.

When you can tweak the drivers of the system under study it is easy to fit the model to the response of the system.

But some of those features require subscription, and users can't hack or tweak it.

Requiring each algorithm tweak to be approved by regulators could drastically slow down its improvements.

If this is not the case, tweak the above advice as necessary.

But these fragile accretions work rather well, they say, and would not survive piecemeal attempts to reform and tweak them.

Google doesn't often tweak the parameters of its search engine, but today it did.

One approach is to look at individual components of the program and tweak them.

Refinements occur every year or two, to add new attributes or to tweak the maths.

The owners and designers continue to tweak the tech, and he's expecting net-zero energy use in the next year-end report.

But drugs companies will have to do more than tweak their sales methods.

Hope's burlesquing as is a gentle tweak on the nose.

The quants can introduce sudden jumps or tweak their models to match actual share-price movements more closely.

McLaren says the tweak provides optimal power under race conditions and makes the car more manageable on the track.

Policymakers have since preferred to tweak aggregate demand via interest rates rather than taxes.

They can shift films from one hall to another, tweak their schedules and show concerts, lectures and sporting events.

What it needs to do is to gradually tweak its banking industry to accommodate larger projects.

It's also open, so the phone makers can tweak it and trick it out as much as they like.

The problem is not to tweak certain policies to make the market more free and perfect, as the author implies.

While you have numerous options to tweak the game's graphics, they boil down to two basic choices:.

But government does not need to hire people to create jobs, all it needs to do is tweak the tax code to encourage green actions.

To be fair, officials decided to tweak the rules a bit.

We see an idea copy it and then often tweak and improve.

Chances are you need to tweak the port forwarding settings on your system to keep the fragging flowing freely.

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tweak (twiːk)

—vb
1.	to twist, jerk, or pinch with a sharp or sudden movement: to tweak someone's nose
2.	slang motor racing to tune (a car or engine) for peak performance
3.	informal to make a minor alteration

—n
4.	an instance of tweaking
5.	informal a minor alteration

[Old English twiccian; related to Old High German zwecchōn; see twitch]

'tweaky

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

tweak

probably from O.E. twiccian "to pluck," of obscure origin; perhaps related to twitch. Meaning "to make fine adjustments" is attested from 1966.

Slang Dictionary

tweak definition

[tʍik]

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to adjust something slightly. : Tweak the tuner a little and see if you can get that station just a little bit clearer.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

tweak definition

1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works. See frobnicate and fudge factor; also see shotgun debugging.
2. To tune or bum a program; preferred usage in the UK.
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