Tweak
verb
To make small changes to something to improve it.
I just need to tweak the design a little before it's perfect.
Often appears as...
- tweak the design
- tweak the settings
verb
To twist, pull or pinch something.
She tweaked his nose playfully.
Often appears as...
- tweak the nose
- tweak the ear
noun
A small change or adjustment.
With a few tweaks, we can make the software run faster.
Often appears as...
- a few tweaks
- little tweaks
verb
To experience nervous excitement or anxiety.
I've been tweaking about the exam all week.
Often appears as...
- tweak about something
- start tweaking
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To make small changes to something to improve it.
I just need to tweak the design a little before it's perfect.
Often appears as...
- tweak the design
- tweak the settings
verb
To twist, pull or pinch something.
She tweaked his nose playfully.
Often appears as...
- tweak the nose
- tweak the ear
noun
A small change or adjustment.
With a few tweaks, we can make the software run faster.
Often appears as...
- a few tweaks
- little tweaks
verb
To experience nervous excitement or anxiety.
I've been tweaking about the exam all week.
Often appears as...
- tweak about something
- start tweaking
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Improvement Focus
Used when a small, specific aspect of something needs improvement without a complete overhaul.
He decided to tweak his resume to make it more appealing.
Pro Tip 2/3Fine Calibration
Often relates to precise adjustments in technology, settings, or scientific experiments.
The engineer tweaked the machine's settings for optimal performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Perfectionist's Term
Suggests a near-finished product that needs minor changes, typically reflecting a perfectionist attitude.
After hours of work, she tweaked her painting one last time.
Pro Tip 1/3Improvement Focus
Used when a small, specific aspect of something needs improvement without a complete overhaul.
He decided to tweak his resume to make it more appealing.
Pro Tip 2/3Fine Calibration
Often relates to precise adjustments in technology, settings, or scientific experiments.
The engineer tweaked the machine's settings for optimal performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Perfectionist's Term
Suggests a near-finished product that needs minor changes, typically reflecting a perfectionist attitude.
After hours of work, she tweaked her painting one last time.
Pro Tip 1/3Improvement Focus
Used when a small, specific aspect of something needs improvement without a complete overhaul.
He decided to tweak his resume to make it more appealing.
Pro Tip 2/3Fine Calibration
Often relates to precise adjustments in technology, settings, or scientific experiments.
The engineer tweaked the machine's settings for optimal performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Perfectionist's Term
Suggests a near-finished product that needs minor changes, typically reflecting a perfectionist attitude.
After hours of work, she tweaked her painting one last time.
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Laurie Santos: How...
Because we've answered the question we started out with. We wanted to know where these kinds of errors came from. And we started with the hope that maybe we can sort of tweak our financial institutions, tweak our technologies to make ourselves better. But what we've learn is that these biases might be a deeper part of us than that.
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Michael Levin: The...
then you can interact with your system not by tweaking or rewiring the hardware, but actually, you can take a step back and give it stimuli or inputs the way that you would give to a reprogrammable computer and cause the cellular network to do something completely different than it would otherwise have done.
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A radical plan to end...
then, of course, the world just sticks to fossil fuel plastic. So that's the fundamental problem, the price of recycled plastic is usually more than the price of just buying it made fresh from more oil. That's the fundamental problem. A slight tweak of the rules here, Chris. I'm a commodity person.
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The psychological weight...
and finally life's too short to live without ice cream when i was first diagnosed i made a list of all my favorite foods and i went and did a glycemic a personal glycemic index with my glucose meter of each one then i went back to each food and i tweaked it adding a little fat removing
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Your body language may...
So I want you to pay attention to what you're doing right now. We're going to come back to that in a few minutes, and I'm hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds. So, we're really fascinated with body language,
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Your body language...
you so I want you to pay attention to what you're doing right now we're going to come back to that in a few minutes and I'm hoping that if you sort of learn to tweak this a little bit it could significantly change the way your life unfolds so we're really fascinated with
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How did teeth evolve? -...
each shaped by evolutionary needs. Straighten the crests and remove the shelf, and you’ve got the conveniently bladed teeth of cats and dogs. Remove the front cusp, raise the shelf, and you’ve got our human molars. A few additional tweaks get you a horse or cow tooth.
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Bigger Than T. rex:...
and millions of years you've seen it many times on your computer screen and we're working on this digital model for many months if we were tweaking every day but seeing it at life-size was was really incredible because I think it's very difficult to really visualize
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Build a tower, build a...
There's step-by-step instructions on this. There are crazy examples from around the world of how people tweak and adjust the system. There's world records that are on this as well. And the fundamental lesson, I believe, is that design truly is a contact sport.
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Ballroom dance that...
With this simple tweak, the dance moves from being a dictation to a negotiation. Anyone can lead. Anyone can follow. And more importantly, you can change your mind.
Video examples
Laurie Santos: How...
Because we've answered the question we started out with. We wanted to know where these kinds of errors came from. And we started with the hope that maybe we can sort of tweak our financial institutions, tweak our technologies to make ourselves better. But what we've learn is that these biases might be a deeper part of us than that.
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
then you can interact with your system not by tweaking or rewiring the hardware, but actually, you can take a step back and give it stimuli or inputs the way that you would give to a reprogrammable computer and cause the cellular network to do something completely different than it would otherwise have done.
Video examples
A radical plan to end...
then, of course, the world just sticks to fossil fuel plastic. So that's the fundamental problem, the price of recycled plastic is usually more than the price of just buying it made fresh from more oil. That's the fundamental problem. A slight tweak of the rules here, Chris. I'm a commodity person.
Video examples
The psychological weight...
and finally life's too short to live without ice cream when i was first diagnosed i made a list of all my favorite foods and i went and did a glycemic a personal glycemic index with my glucose meter of each one then i went back to each food and i tweaked it adding a little fat removing
Video examples
Your body language may...
So I want you to pay attention to what you're doing right now. We're going to come back to that in a few minutes, and I'm hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds. So, we're really fascinated with body language,
Video examples
Your body language...
you so I want you to pay attention to what you're doing right now we're going to come back to that in a few minutes and I'm hoping that if you sort of learn to tweak this a little bit it could significantly change the way your life unfolds so we're really fascinated with
Video examples
How did teeth evolve? -...
each shaped by evolutionary needs. Straighten the crests and remove the shelf, and you’ve got the conveniently bladed teeth of cats and dogs. Remove the front cusp, raise the shelf, and you’ve got our human molars. A few additional tweaks get you a horse or cow tooth.
Video examples
Bigger Than T. rex:...
and millions of years you've seen it many times on your computer screen and we're working on this digital model for many months if we were tweaking every day but seeing it at life-size was was really incredible because I think it's very difficult to really visualize
Video examples
Build a tower, build a...
There's step-by-step instructions on this. There are crazy examples from around the world of how people tweak and adjust the system. There's world records that are on this as well. And the fundamental lesson, I believe, is that design truly is a contact sport.
Video examples
Ballroom dance that...
With this simple tweak, the dance moves from being a dictation to a negotiation. Anyone can lead. Anyone can follow. And more importantly, you can change your mind.
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Yuri Lowenthal
American Actor
It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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Steve Ells
American Businessman
We're not best in the world at burritos and tacos. What we're best in the world at is building a people culture, sourcing really great ingredients, cooking according to classic cooking techniques, understanding the corresponding economic model and how to tweak that and drive that and provide this really great, new fast food experience.
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Imogen Heap
English Musician
Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.
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Kresley Cole
American Novelist
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
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R-Truth
American Wrestler
All the things I talk about are true, but some of them I may tweak a little bit. A lot of it is the way I feel about wrestling. When you have a character like mine, you can push the envelope and go far with some of the issues.
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Richard Dean Anderson
American Actor
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan
American Writer
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
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Jennifer Hale
Canadian Actress
There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.
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Judd Trump
English Entertainer
Other people try and tweak their techniques and that, but I've just been exactly the same all my life, and I'd never change anything.
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Yuri Lowenthal
American Actor
It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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Steve Ells
American Businessman
We're not best in the world at burritos and tacos. What we're best in the world at is building a people culture, sourcing really great ingredients, cooking according to classic cooking techniques, understanding the corresponding economic model and how to tweak that and drive that and provide this really great, new fast food experience.
Quote examples
Imogen Heap
English Musician
Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.
Quote examples
Kresley Cole
American Novelist
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
Quote examples
R-Truth
American Wrestler
All the things I talk about are true, but some of them I may tweak a little bit. A lot of it is the way I feel about wrestling. When you have a character like mine, you can push the envelope and go far with some of the issues.
Quote examples
Richard Dean Anderson
American Actor
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
Quote examples
John Jeremiah Sullivan
American Writer
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
Quote examples
Jennifer Hale
Canadian Actress
There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.
Quote examples
Ross Douthat
American Author
Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.
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Judd Trump
English Entertainer
Other people try and tweak their techniques and that, but I've just been exactly the same all my life, and I'd never change anything.
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