Bud vs. Tween

Budnoun

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

Budnoun

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

Budnoun

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Budnoun

Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

Budnoun

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

Budnoun

A pretty young girl.

Budnoun

Buddy, friend.

Budnoun

(informal) used to address a male

Budverb

(intransitive) To form buds.

Budverb

(intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

Budverb

(intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

Budverb

(intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

Budverb

(transitive) To put forth as a bud.

Budverb

(transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Budnoun

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

Budnoun

A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

Budverb

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

Budverb

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

Budverb

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

Budverb

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

Budnoun

a partially opened flower

Budnoun

a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

Budverb

develop buds;

Budverb

start to grow or develop;

Bud

In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately.

Tweennoun

(animation) An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening.

Tweennoun

A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old.

Tweennoun

A child, usually a girl, in the age range between young childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age.

Tweenverb

(cinematography) To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement.

Tweenadjective

Of or having to do with tweenagers.