1. глагол 1) вертеть, крутить (что-либо), играть (чем-либо) 2) то же, что и twiddle one's thumbs - бездельничать, бить баклуши 3) дрожать (о голосе) 2. имя существительное 1) верчение 2) завиток, украшение 3) [музыка] орнаментика
I. verb (twiddled; twiddling) Etymology: origin unknown intransitive verb 1. to play negligently with something; fiddle 2. to turn or jounce lightly Example: twiddles round and round in the water — J. B. S. Haldane transitive verb to rotate lightly or idly Example: twiddled his pen II. noun turn, twist
1. The tilde character. 2. (To make) a small or insignificant change. E.g. twiddling a program often fixes one bug and generates several new ones (see also shotgun debugging). Bits are often twiddled. Twiddling a switch or knob implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking it; see frobnicate. Bit twiddling connotes aimlessness, and at best doesn't specify what you're doing to the bit; to "toggle a bit" has a more specific meaning.