tween
/twiːn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
Alternative spelling of 'tween.
noun
An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
verb
To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.
noun
A child, especially a girl, in the age range between middle childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age.
adj
Of or relating to tweenagers.
Example Sentences
- "“Skunks first colonized this land in 1794. With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk. Gifts were exchanged. Treaties were struck... and broken. A feud ignited, resulting in the Battle of Skunktown.”"
- "Because the results of a shape tween can be unpredictable, you can set shape hints to let Flash know how to proceed with the tween."
- "A tween is a method of creating animation, where you tell Flash where to start and where to end, and Flash does all the work in the middle. There are three types of tweens: Classic, Shape, and Motion."
- "If you select the frames first, they will be replaced by the copied tween."
- "The two most important and advanced ingredients of today's animation are tweening and morphing."
- "Simple motion tweening moves your objects in a straight line from here to there.[…]You can also combine frame-by-frame animation with tweened animation."
Etymology
Clipping of in between.
Inflected Forms
tweens (plural)
tweens (present, singular)
tweening (participle, present)
tweened (participle, past)
tweened (past)
'tween (alternative)
more tween (comparative)
most tween (superlative)