tweak

1. 1.

   a squeeze with the fingers

   Synonymspinch

   Broadersqueeze

Other forms of tweak

plural

tweaks·

past tense

tweaked·

present participle

tweaking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tweak

What does tweak mean?

tweak means "pinch or squeeze sharply". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tweak?

tweak has 1 syllable: tweak. In IPA it is /ˈtwik/.

What is another word for tweak?

Close synonyms include pluck, pull off, pick off, fine-tune, pinch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tweak a common word?

tweak is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.