text:
tweet

Etymology
of the sound made by a bird. Compare. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update,,.

Noun

 * 1) The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
 * 2)  An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
 * 3)  An entry on any microblogging service.
 * 1)  An entry on any microblogging service.
 * 1)  An entry on any microblogging service.
 * 1)  An entry on any microblogging service.
 * 1)  An entry on any microblogging service.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: twiet
 * Bulgarian: чуруликане,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:, kvidder
 * Dutch: twiet
 * Esperanto: pepo
 * Estonian: siuts, säuts
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: chío, rechouchío
 * Georgian: ჭიკჭიკი, ჟღურტული
 * German: Zwitschern
 * Hebrew: צִיּוּץ
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: bíc, gíog, giolcadh, gíog
 * Macedonian: цвр́кање, цврко́тење, чурули́кање
 * Malay: ciap-ciap, ciak-ciak
 * Maori: tīhau
 * Norwegian: kvitter
 * Bokmål: kvitring
 * Nynorsk: kvitring
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Tagalog: siyap
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:

 * Afrikaans: twiet
 * Arabic: تَغْرِيدَة
 * Asturian: tuit
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian: Tweet
 * Bengali: টুইট
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: pepo
 * Estonian: säuts, tviit,
 * Finnish: twiitti, tviitti, twiittaus
 * French: ,
 * Galician: chío
 * Georgian: ტვიტი
 * German: ; Twitterbeitrag; Twittereintrag
 * Hebrew: צִיּוּץ
 * Hindi: ट्वीट
 * Hungarian: Twitter-bejegyzés, tweetbejegyzés,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: tvuít
 * Japanese: ツイート,
 * Korean: 트윗, 트위트
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:, , twit,
 * Maori: tīhau
 * Marathi: ट्वीट
 * Pashto: ټويټ
 * Persian: توییت, پیام توییتری
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , tweet
 * Turkish:, tvit, twit

Verb

 * 1)  To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
 * 2)  To post an update to Twitter.
 * 3)  To post an update to any microblogging site.
 * 1)  To post an update to any microblogging site.
 * 1)  To post an update to any microblogging site.
 * 1)  To post an update to any microblogging site.
 * 1)  To post an update to any microblogging site.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, чуруликам
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: pepi
 * Estonian: säutsuma, siutsuma
 * Finnish: piipittää
 * Georgian: ჭიკჭიკებს, ჟღურტულებს
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: bheith ag gíoglach, bheith ag giolcaireacht, gíog
 * Japanese:
 * Ladino: chuchulear
 * Maori: tīhau, pekī
 * Norman: tuiter
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kvitre
 * Nynorsk: kvitre / kvitra
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: sumiyap
 * Vietnamese:

 * Arabic: غَرَّدَ
 * Asturian: tuitiar
 * Basque: txiokatu
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 发推
 * Danish: tweete
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: pepi
 * Estonian: säutsuma, tviitima, tweetima
 * Finnish: twiitata, tviitata
 * French:, twitterer, ,
 * Georgian: ტვიტავს, დატვიტავს
 * German: ; tweeten;
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: tweetel, twittel,
 * Icelandic: tísta
 * Ido: twitar
 * Interlingua: twitterar
 * Irish: tvuíteáil, bheith ag giolcaireacht, giolc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ツイート,
 * Macedonian: твита
 * Maori: tīhau
 * Marathi: ट्वीट करणे
 * Norman: tuiter
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tvitre
 * Nynorsk: tvitre / tvitra
 * Persian: توییت کردن
 * Polish: tweetować
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, тви́тать,
 * Spanish:, twittear
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: tweet atmak, tweetlemek, tivit atmak, tivitlemek

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, , csip-csip, csip-csirip
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: piu
 * Russian: чик-чирик, чирик-чирик, чив-чив
 * Vietnamese:, líu la líu lo,

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) tweet (Twitter)

Noun

 * 1) tweet Twitter message

Noun

 * 1) a  a message on Twitter

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   entry posted on Twitter

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  message on Twitter

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   entry posted on Twitter

title: tweet


text:
one-hit wonder

Noun

 * 1)  A recording artist known for only one hit song, especially after failing at subsequent attempts at success.
 * 2)  A person or group known for achieving only a single major accomplishment.
 * 3)  An instance of getting high off the first hit.
 * 1)  An instance of getting high off the first hit.
 * 1)  An instance of getting high off the first hit.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes refers to the song, rather than the musical artist.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: еднодневка
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: yhden hitin ihme
 * German:, musikalische Eintagsfliege, Musiker mit kurzlebigem Erfolg
 * Japanese:

 * Bulgarian: еднодневка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: yhden hitin ihme
 * German:
 * Japanese:

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: one-hit wonder


text:
defragment

Verb

 * 1)  To run a process that collects fragments of files and sorts them into contiguous sections on one or more hard disks or hard disk partitions, thus speeding up file management.

Translations

 * Bengali:
 * Czech: defragmentovat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: desfragmentar
 * German:
 * Hungarian: töredezettségmentesít
 * Indonesian: mendefragmentasi
 * Italian:
 * Malay: mendefragmentasi, menyahserpih
 * Maori: whakatōpū kongakonga
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: defragmentirati
 * Spanish: desfragmentar

title: defragment


text:
desalination

Noun

 * 1) The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَقْطِير, إِعْذَاب
 * Azerbaijani: duzsuzlaşdırma, duzsuzlaşdırılma
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 海水淡化
 * Danish: afsaltning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: suolanpoisto
 * French:
 * German: Meerwasserentsalzung,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: отсолување, десалинизација
 * Malay: penyahgaraman
 * Norman: dêsalinnâtion
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: avsalting
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, десалиниза́ция
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: опрі́снення

title: desalination


text:
pike

Etymology 1
From, , , , from , and , from ; both ultimately from , from , , related to with a narrower meaning.

The word is cognate with 🇨🇬,, (modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and possibly 🇨🇬. It is a.

The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.

The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.

The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
 * 2) A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
 * 3) A large.
 * 4) Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus, especially the northern pike,.
 * 5)  A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
 * 6)  A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
 * 7)  A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
 * 8)  Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
 * 9)  A pick, a pickaxe.
 * 10)  A hayfork.
 * 11)  A penis.
 * 1)  A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
 * 2)  A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
 * 3)  A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
 * 4)  Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
 * 5)  A pick, a pickaxe.
 * 6)  A hayfork.
 * 7)  A penis.
 * 1)  A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
 * 2)  Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
 * 3)  A pick, a pickaxe.
 * 4)  A hayfork.
 * 5)  A penis.
 * 1)  A pick, a pickaxe.
 * 2)  A hayfork.
 * 3)  A penis.
 * 1)  A penis.
 * 1)  A penis.

Synonyms

 * see northern pike
 * see northern pike

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: შუბი,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σάρισα
 * Irish: píce
 * Italian:
 * Latin: dolō,
 * Macedonian: пика, копје
 * Maori: tūmū
 * Norwegian: pik
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: rhôn
 * Zazaki: suvur

 * Bulgarian:
 * Polish: ,

 * Abenaki: kwenoza
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: суртан
 * Bulgarian: щука
 * Buryat: сурхай
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: туйкэтуй, юуткуннээн
 * Chuvash: ҫӑрттан
 * Crimean Tatar: turna balığı
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Even: гөткэн
 * Evenki: гуткэ̄н, гуткэчэн
 * Faroese: gedda
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: picudo,
 * Georgian: ქარიყლაპია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gedda
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: hauki
 * Irish: liús, gailliasc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: カワカマス, パイク
 * Kalmyk: цурх
 * Kazakh: шортан
 * Ket: ӄурь
 * Khakas: сортан
 * Komi-Zyrian: сир
 * Kumyk: чортан
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: lucius
 * Latvian: līdaka
 * Lithuanian: lydeka, lydys
 * Luxembourgish: Hiecht
 * Macedonian: штука
 * Mansi:
 * Northern Mansi: сорт
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: нуж, нужгол
 * Western Mari: нужгол
 * Mongolian:
 * Montagnais:
 * Naskapi:
 * Nogai: шортан
 * Northern Yukaghir: умуйэ
 * Norwegian: gjedde
 * Old English: hacod
 * Ottoman Turkish: طورنه بالغی, یاین
 * Plautdietsch: Häakj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Inari Sami: puško
 * Kildin Sami: ныгкешь
 * Northern Sami: hávga
 * Skolt Sami: nuʹǩǩeš
 * Scottish Gaelic: geadas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: штука
 * Roman:
 * Shor: шортан
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ščuka
 * Southern Altai: чортон
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çortan
 * Tuvan: шортан
 * Tày: băng
 * Udmurt: чипей
 * Ukrainian:
 * Unami: kwekonkale
 * Uzbek:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: blaidd y dŵr,
 * Yakut: сордоҥ

 * French:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
 * 2)  To assume a pike position.
 * 3)  To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
 * 4)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.
 * 1)  To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
 * 2)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.
 * 1)  To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
 * 2)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.
 * 1)  To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
 * 2)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.
 * 1)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.
 * 1)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.
 * 1)  Often followed by ' or ': to quit or back out of a promise.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:

Etymology 2
Noun sense 2 (“gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller”) and verb sense 2 (“to depart, travel, especially to flee, run away”) may refer to someone frequently using turnpikes, or may be derived from.

Noun

 * 1)  A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
 * 1)  A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
 * 1)  A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
 * 1)  A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
 * 1)  A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.

Verb

 * 1)  To equip with a turnpike.
 * 2)  To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
 * 1)  To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
 * 1)  To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : weeping

Verb

 * 1) to catch a person in an act
 * 2) to discover

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) a girl

Usage notes
Jente is the standard appellation for girl in Norwegian; pike may also be used, though it is seen as somewhat conservative.

title: pike


text:
donkey bid

Noun

 * 1) A fake bid at an auction, used by the auctioneer to raise the price and thus raise the commission.

title: donkey bid