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frob·ni·cate
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frobnicate
[Poss. derived from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but frobnicate is recognized as the official full form.:] To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: “Please frob the light switch” (that is, flip it), but also “Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it”. One also sees the construction to frob a frob. See tweak and twiddle.Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. ‘Frob’ connotes aimless manipulation; twiddle connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; tweak connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant frobnosticate has been recently reported.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of frobnicate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of frobnicate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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- frobnicateArabic
- frobnicateCzech
- frobnicateGerman
- zorglubSpanish
- frobnicateFinnish
- zorglubFrench
- frobnicateIndonesian
- frobnicateItalian
- frobnicateHebrew
- frobnicateJapanese
- frobnicateKorean
- frobnicateDutch
- frobnicateNorwegian
- frobnicatePolish
- frobnicatePortuguese
- frobnicateRomanian
- frobnicateRussian
- frobnicateSwedish
- frobnicateThai
- frobnicateTurkish
- فروبنیٹUrdu
- frobnicateChinese
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