tweeter

See also: Tweeter

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From to tweet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

tweeter (plural tweeters)

  1. (electronics) An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
  2. One who or that which makes a tweeting noise.
    • 2017, Melody Styles, Heart of the Messenger (part 1)
      The little tweeter birds that had kept her company this morning were now absent, leaving nothing but the whisper of the trees as a light breeze gently wandered by.
  3. (social media) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.
    Synonyms: twitterer, tweep
    • 2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English tweet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • (verb)
    • IPA(key): /twi.te/
    • Audio (Paris)(file)
  • (noun)
    • IPA(key): /twi.tœʁ/
    • Audio (Paris)(file)

Verb

tweeter

  1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (post to Twitter)
    • 2009, Francis Pisani, “Le futur « hybride » des médias”, in Le Monde Blogs:
      J’ai tweeté les idées essentielles et vous pouvez les retrouver sur @transnets.
      I have tweeted the essential ideas and you can find them on @transnets.
    • 2014, Hugo Pascual, “Vite, mes gants ! Il faut que je tweete”, in Libération:
      Quatre étudiants américains viennent de mettre au point une paire de gants équipée d’un micro vous permettant de tweeter à toute heure du jour et de la nuit [...]
      Four American students have just developed a pair of gloves fitted with a microphone allowing you to tweet at any time of the day or night [...]

Conjugation
Conjugation of tweeter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple tweeter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple tweetant
/twi.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle tweeté
/twi.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tweete
/twit/		 tweetes
/twit/		 tweete
/twit/		 tweetons
/twi.tɔ̃/		 tweetez
/twi.te/		 tweetent
/twit/
imperfect tweetais
/twi.tɛ/		 tweetais
/twi.tɛ/		 tweetait
/twi.tɛ/		 tweetions
/twi.tjɔ̃/		 tweetiez
/twi.tje/		 tweetaient
/twi.tɛ/
past historic2 tweetai
/twi.te/		 tweetas
/twi.ta/		 tweeta
/twi.ta/		 tweetâmes
/twi.tam/		 tweetâtes
/twi.tat/		 tweetèrent
/twi.tɛʁ/
future tweeterai
/twi.tʁe/		 tweeteras
/twi.tʁa/		 tweetera
/twi.tʁa/		 tweeterons
/twi.tʁɔ̃/		 tweeterez
/twi.tʁe/		 tweeteront
/twi.tʁɔ̃/
conditional tweeterais
/twi.tʁɛ/		 tweeterais
/twi.tʁɛ/		 tweeterait
/twi.tʁɛ/		 tweeterions
/twi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 tweeteriez
/twi.tə.ʁje/		 tweeteraient
/twi.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tweete
/twit/		 tweetes
/twit/		 tweete
/twit/		 tweetions
/twi.tjɔ̃/		 tweetiez
/twi.tje/		 tweetent
/twit/
imperfect2 tweetasse
/twi.tas/		 tweetasses
/twi.tas/		 tweetât
/twi.ta/		 tweetassions
/twi.ta.sjɔ̃/		 tweetassiez
/twi.ta.sje/		 tweetassent
/twi.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — tweete
/twit/		 — tweetons
/twi.tɔ̃/		 tweetez
/twi.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Noun

tweeter m (plural tweeters)

  1. tweeter (high-frequency speaker)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tweeter.

Noun

tweeter n (plural tweetere)

  1. tweeter

Declension
Declension of tweeter
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) tweeter tweeterul (niște) tweetere tweeterele
genitive/dative (unui) tweeter tweeterului (unor) tweetere tweeterelor
vocative tweeterule tweeterelor
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