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Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.
Rickie Fowler

Meaning of "retweet" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RETWEET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RETWEET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Retweet is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb retweet in English.

WHAT DOES RETWEET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

retweet

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, Austin and Detroit. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."...

Definition of retweet in the English dictionary

The definition of retweet in the dictionary is to post another user's blog on the Twitter website for your own followers.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RETWEET

PRESENT

Present
I retweet
you retweet
he/she/it retweets
we retweet
you retweet
they retweet
Present continuous
I am retweeting
you are retweeting
he/she/it is retweeting
we are retweeting
you are retweeting
they are retweeting
Present perfect
I have retweeted
you have retweeted
he/she/it has retweeted
we have retweeted
you have retweeted
they have retweeted
Present perfect continuous
I have been retweeting
you have been retweeting
he/she/it has been retweeting
we have been retweeting
you have been retweeting
they have been retweeting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I retweeted
you retweeted
he/she/it retweeted
we retweeted
you retweeted
they retweeted
Past continuous
I was retweeting
you were retweeting
he/she/it was retweeting
we were retweeting
you were retweeting
they were retweeting
Past perfect
I had retweeted
you had retweeted
he/she/it had retweeted
we had retweeted
you had retweeted
they had retweeted
Past perfect continuous
I had been retweeting
you had been retweeting
he/she/it had been retweeting
we had been retweeting
you had been retweeting
they had been retweeting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will retweet
you will retweet
he/she/it will retweet
we will retweet
you will retweet
they will retweet
Future continuous
I will be retweeting
you will be retweeting
he/she/it will be retweeting
we will be retweeting
you will be retweeting
they will be retweeting
Future perfect
I will have retweeted
you will have retweeted
he/she/it will have retweeted
we will have retweeted
you will have retweeted
they will have retweeted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been retweeting
you will have been retweeting
he/she/it will have been retweeting
we will have been retweeting
you will have been retweeting
they will have been retweeting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would retweet
you would retweet
he/she/it would retweet
we would retweet
you would retweet
they would retweet
Conditional continuous
I would be retweeting
you would be retweeting
he/she/it would be retweeting
we would be retweeting
you would be retweeting
they would be retweeting
Conditional perfect
I would have retweet
you would have retweet
he/she/it would have retweet
we would have retweet
you would have retweet
they would have retweet
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been retweeting
you would have been retweeting
he/she/it would have been retweeting
we would have been retweeting
you would have been retweeting
they would have been retweeting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you retweet
we let´s retweet
you retweet
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to retweet
Past participle
retweeted
Present Participle
retweeting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RETWEET

return key
return match
return stroke
return thanks
return ticket
return trip
return visit
returnability
returnable
returned man
returned soldier
returnee
returner
returnik
returning officer
returnless
returns
retuse
retwist
retype

WORDS THAT END LIKE RETWEET

bittersweet
boiled sweet
cop it sweet
cough sweet
honey-sweet
keep someone sweet
meadowsweet
medium-sweet
Nutrasweet
oversweet
peetweet
semisweet
short and sweet
supersweet
sweet
tweet
unsweet

Synonyms and antonyms of retweet in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «retweet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RETWEET

Find out the translation of retweet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of retweet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «retweet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

转推
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Retweet
570 millions of speakers

English

retweet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

retweet
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إعادة تغريد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

перечириканье
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

retuitar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টুইট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

retweet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Retweet
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

retweet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

リツイート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

리트 위트 (retweet)
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Retweet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

retweet
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மறு ட்வீட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्विट करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

retweet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rispondi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

retweet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перечіріканье
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

retweet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

retweet
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Retweet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

retweet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

retweet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of retweet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RETWEET»

The term «retweet» is very widely used and occupies the 4.615 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about retweet

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2 QUOTES WITH «RETWEET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word retweet.
1
Rickie Fowler
Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.
2
Noreena Hertz
If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETWEET»

Discover the use of retweet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to retweet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to stand out, be noticed, and get others talking about them.
John Hlinko, 2012
2
ReTweet Critique, Volume 1
Review of the Blog's Best Conceptual Photography » Reflections Reflections, a photo by ~:. Jeff .:~ on Flickr. Inside Cover Image: 2 By ~I. Jeff .I~, Jeff Krohl http:// WWW.flickr.com/photos/ieffkrol/ As seen on http://ReTWeetCritic|ue.com Review ...
3
Green Communications and Networks:
After performing these seven preprocess tasks as required on our initial dataset, the output was a clean dataset that we then used to construct our retweet dictionary and no-retweet dictionary and continued with our prediction task. 3.3 Step 2: ...
Maode Ma, Yuhang Yang, 2014
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#EMPiREFiLM
Warhol's tweet-y bio http://bit.ly/fMT1Qq #pennypostcard #warhol #empirefilm 3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply » elcelso elcelso Empire is red2nite # empirefilm 3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply » BryanthePainter bryan reyna # 24hlike ...
Mark Leach, 2011
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The Twitter Book
Retweet. clearly. and. classily: Part. 3—use. the. Retweet. button. Back in the day, you could retweet somebody only by cutting and pasting the original message and then typing in all the extra info. Tedious. So when Twitter added the Retweet  ...
Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein, 2011
6
Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
You can also retweet any update that you come across using Twitter's search engine (which I talk about in Chapter 6). 3. Hover the mouse pointer over the update. Twitter displays the Retweet link. 4. Click the Retweet link. Twitter displays a ...
Paul McFedries, 2010
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Twitter For Dummies
To retweet a link, follow these steps: 1. Hover over the tweet that you'd like to forward to your followers. 2. Click the Retweet button. To your followers, that tweet looks as if it came from the person who wrote the tweet in the first place, complete ...
Laura Fitton, 2012
8
Twitter Marketing For Dummies
The art of retweeting involves concepts that you can apply to retweeting so that you can exponentially increase your effectiveness when you use the retweet function. I discuss the rules of retweeting in the following sections. Using the proper ...
Kyle Lacy, 2011
9
The Celebrity Tweet Directory
A retweet is another person's tweet that you send to your followers. You most often retweet updates from the people you follow, but you can retweet anyone's updates. Retweet an update ifyou think it will be especially interesting or relevant to ...
Jeanne Harris, 2010
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Web Technologies and Applications: 14th Asia-Pacific Web ...
4.3 Modelling Retweeting on TRC Graph In this section, we will illustrate how to model retweeting by means of different kinds of objects. t 1 t 2 t 3 t 4 r 11 r 12 r 13 r 14 r 15 r 10 c 1 12 f 13 f 11 f Term Retweet Context . . . Session Fraction ...
Quan Z. Sheng, Guoren Wang, Christian S. Jensen, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RETWEET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term retweet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Twitterati coo over retweet 'quote' function
San Franscisco – Twitter has officially rolled out its “retweet with comment” feature, which lets people annotate the tweets of others. The new tool lets users ... «Independent Online, Apr 15»
2
Twitter Officially Launches Its “Retweet With Comment” Feature
Twitter just officially launched its “retweet with comment” feature, which it began testing last summer. “Retweet with comment” allows users to embed a tweet in ... «TechCrunch, Apr 15»
3
Retweet this: Twitter's 'quote tweet' button is actually useful!
Users would have to resort to the standard retweet method to preserve context, but that didn't allow them to add their own thoughts. Now the quote button ... «Digital Trends, Apr 15»
4
Rosemary Healy, Labour Councillor, Suspended For Sharing Nazi …
Profound apologies for that retweet which was a genuine mistake and would never have been retweeted had I recognised it for what it was. — Cllr Rosemary ... «Huffington Post UK, Jan 15»
5
School official's racially insensitive retweet resurfaces
NORFOLK, Va. — A racially insensitive retweet has stirred up controversy at Booker T. Washington High School. The tweet, apparently sent from a school ... «USA TODAY, Nov 14»
6
Patriots racist retweet caps an epic week of social media failures
The promotion has thus far garnered nearly 9,000 retweets. And that would be great if nobody on Twitter had an incredibly offensive user name. But as anyone ... «Salon, Nov 14»
7
Saint Mary's lacrosse coach quits over 'give your cheeks a pinch …
Murphy says the university believes the retweet is intended to be a fake or joke ad. She says in retweeting the image, Hannigan didn't meet standards set out an ... «CTV News, Nov 14»
8
Minister Matthew Hancock sorry for 'queers' retweet
Business Minister Matthew Hancock said his retweet had been an "accident" and described the comment as "offensive". The MP for Suffolk West shared a few ... «BBC News, Oct 14»
9
How Twitter's New Potential 'Retweet With Comment' Feature Could …
The feature would enable a “retweet with comment” option not currently available on the site. Today, Twitter users are only given the option to retweet an item. «Forbes, Jul 14»
10
Twitter Is Experimenting With A New Way To Retweet
A Twitter retweet allows a user to re-post another's tweet to their own personal timeline. The “quote tweet” feature, meanwhile, grabs the other person's tweet, ... «TechCrunch, Jun 14»

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