Meaning

Alternative spelling of 'tween..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative spelling of 'tween.
2. (animation) An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.
3. (cinematography) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.
4. A child, especially a girl, in the age range between middle childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age.
5. Of or relating to tweenagers.
6. (rare) A number or age in the twenties (plural only), or a person of that age.

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.

The first parameter is the object that you want to tween, and the second parameter is the amount of time you want it to take in seconds.

Next stop on the worthless train is the tweens who range from ages ten to thirteen years old. The tweens are so damn annoying, they make me want to jump off a cliff.

Word Forms

• tweens
• tweening
• tweened
• 'tween
• more tween
• most tween

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Use tween when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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