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tween

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /twiːn/

adj

Etymology: Blend of teen + between in the sense of "between childhood and adolescence".

  1. Of or relating to tweenagers.

    “I am going to describe a video that threw me into a pit of despair. It begins with a woman running into the aisle of a big-box store and telling a tween boy that she needs phone chargers.”

noun

Etymology: Blend of twenty + teen.

  1. A number or age in the twenties (plural only), or a person of that age.

    “At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.”

    “And although Mums don't always control the purse strings of the tweens (the younger set in their twenties), they are not entirely a forgotten influence.”

prep

Etymology: Clipping of in between.

  1. Alternative spelling of 'tween.

    ““Skunks first colonized this land in 1794. With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk. Gifts were exchanged. Treaties were struck... and broken. A feud ignited, resulting in the Battle of Skunktown.””

verb

Etymology: Clipping of in between.

  1. To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.

    “The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing.”

    “Simple motion tweening moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.[…]You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with tweened animation.”