tweak

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  1. transitive verb To pinch, pluck, or twist sharply.
  2. transitive verb To adjust; fine-tune.
  3. transitive verb To make fun of; tease.
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  • WinXP Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, and clean up Windows XP. —  Fulldls.com
  • After a quick action tweak, the factory settings seemed fine although the colour faded over a period of time (as expected) but still annoying all the same! —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • Canadian firm Neutrano is working with Chinese OEMs to import, tweak, and certify some of those watch phones that we've unfortunately been spending more time reading about than actually using -- and while they aren't going to appeal to everyone, the stainless steel version is the closest thing we've seen to something we'd consider wearing this side of —  Engadget
  • Canadian firm Neutrano is working with Chinese OEMs to import, tweak, and certify some of those watch phones that we've unfortunately been spending more time reading about than actually using -- and while they aren't going to appeal to everyone, —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Vista Manager is a system utility that helps you optimize, tweak, and clean up Windows Vista. —  Fulldls.com
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  1. Probably variant of dialectal twick, from Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian.

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  1. Formerly also tweag, tweague; a variant of twick, unassibilated form of twitch.
  2. from tweak, v.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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