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# tweak

«tweak» in Mova's school dictionary: **To pinch and twist something quickly, such as a nose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (tweaks, tweaked, tweaking); noun

### meaning for a pupil

1) To pinch and twist something quickly, such as a nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweak/#m1)

2) To make a small adjustment to something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweak/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a playful pinch of the nose in a fairy tale

### examples

- They tweaked Peter's nose and passed on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweak/#x1)
- I tweaked the settings on the screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweak/#x2)
- Tweak the recipe a little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweak/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tweak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.