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tweak

To make minor adjustments in an electronic system or in a software program in order to improve performance. See calibrate.

1.		tweak - 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.		tweak - To tune or bum a program; preferred usage in the UK.

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No references found			Archie laughed, and Rose, seeing a merry blue eye winking at her from behind two brown hands, gave Charlie's ear a friendly tweak, and extended the olive-branch of peace. Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context But when the watchman gave no reply, the merry roysterer, who was now returning home from a noisy drinking bout, took it into his bead to try what a tweak of the nose would do, on which the supposed sleeper lost his balance, the body lay motionless, stretched out on the pavement: the man was dead. Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context You know--at least, I know in my own case--when a man has said to me, 'So-and-so's a pretty girl,' I am seized with a momentary sourness against So-and-so, and long to tweak her ear. Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context			Tver School Tver, Principality Tverdislav Mikhalkovich Tveritinov, Dmitrii Tveritinov, Dmitrii Evdokimovich Tveritinov, Evgenii Tveritinov, Evgenii Pavlovich Tverskoi Sbornik Tvertsa TVI Tviber Tvorchestvo TVRO Tvrtko I TW TWA Twachtman, John Henry Twaddell scale Twain Twain, Mark twalking twam twammer Twanoh State Park twayblade tweak Tweed Tweed Ring Tweed, "Boss" William Tweed, River Tweed, William Tweed, William Magear Tweed, William Marcy Tweed, William Marcy "Boss" Tweeddale, John Hay, 2d earl and 1st marquess of Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedsmuir Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron tweening tweeple tweet tweeter Tweetie tweeting tweetup Twelfth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Communist Party Twelfth All-Russian Congress of Soviets Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party Bolshevik Twelfth Day twelfth man Twelfth Night			TWCU TWCV TWCVB TWCW TWCWC TWD TWD TWDA TWDB TWDC TWDCISL TWDEC TWDF TWDL TWDM TWDMAR TWDMS TWDP TWDR TWDS TWDV TWDY TWE TWEA Tweag tweak tweak off Tweakable Block Cipher tweaked tweaked Tweaker Tweaker tweakers tweakers tweaking tweaking tweaking tweaking tweaks tweaks tweaky tweaky TWEAM TWEAN TWEB TWEBLO TWEC twee tweed tweed tweed Tweed Heads Appliance Parts Tweed Heads Bowls Club Tweed Heads Public School Tweed Heads South Public School Tweed Richmond Organic Producers Organisation

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