twiddle

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtwɪdəl/

Verb

twiddle (twiddles, present participle twiddling; past and past participle twiddled)

1. (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Singing,”

     The harder Small sang, the harder the cow chewed and the faster she twiddled her ears around as if stirring the song into the food to be rechewed in cud along with her breakfast.

   She sat and nervously twiddled her hair while she waited.
2. (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits binary digits.

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3. (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
4. (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.

Translations

• French: tripoter
• Portuguese: girar

Noun

twiddle (plural twiddles)

1. A slight twist with the fingers.
2. (Britain, dialectal) A pimple.
3. A small decorative embellishment.
4. A small musical flourish.
5. A tilde.
6. A drawn line that is curvy or twisted.
7. A tiny bit
8. A tizzy

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