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1. (v.t.) twiddle
to turn about or play with lightly or idly, esp. with the fingers; twirl.
2. (v.i.) twiddle
to play or trifle idly with something; fiddle.
3. twiddle
to turn about lightly; twirl.
4. (n.) twiddle
the act of twiddling; turn; twirl.
5. twiddle
twiddle one's thumbs, to do nothing; be idle.
Etymology: (1530–40; perh. b. twitch and fiddle)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) twiddle
a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
2. (verb) twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl
turn in a twisting or spinning motion
"The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
3. (verb) twiddle, fiddle with
manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
"He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) twiddle
a slight twist with the fingers
2. (noun) twiddle
a pimple
3. (verb) twiddle
to touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key
4. (verb) twiddle
to play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. twiddle
1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, ~). Also called
squiggle, sqiggle (sic — pronounced /skig´l/), and twaddle, but twiddle is the most common term.
2. A small and insignificant change to a program. Usually fixes one
bug and generates several new ones (see also
shotgun debugging). 3. vt. To change something in a
small way. Bits, for example, are often twiddled. Twiddling a switch or
knobs implies much less sense of purpose than
toggling or tweaking it; see frobnicate. To speak
of twiddling a bit connotes aimlessness, and at best doesn't specify what
you're doing to the bit; ‘toggling a bit’ has a more specific
meaning (see bit twiddling,
toggle). 4. Uncommon name for the
twirling baton prompt.
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Sense: to twist (something) round and round
He twiddled the knob on the radio.
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 Brazilian: girar |
 Czech: otáčet |
 German: herumdrehen |
 Danish: dreje |
 Greek: στριφογυρνώ |
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 Estonian: keerutama |
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 Finnish: pyöritellä |
 French: tripoter |
 Hebrew: לְסוֹבֵב סְתָם |
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 Hungarian: ujjával forgat |
 Indonesian: memutar-mutar |
 Icelandic: (snar)snúa |
 Italian: girare |
 Japanese: いじり回す |
 Korean: (~을) 돌리다 |
 Lithuanian: sukinėti |
 Latvian: griezt; grozīt |
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 Russian: крутить |
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 Turkish: döndürmek, döndürüp durma |
 Taiwanese: 旋弄 |
 Ukrainian: вертіти, крутити |
 Urdu: گھمانا |
 Vietnamese: xoay |
 Chinese: 旋弄 |
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