Frobnicate, V.: To Manipulate Or Adjust, To Tweak.

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Frobnicate, v.:
To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. Derived from FROBNITZ.
Usually abbreviated to FROB. Thus one has the saying "to frob
a frob". See TWEAK and TWIDDLE. Usage: FROB, TWIDDLE, and
TWEAK sometimes connote points along a continuum. FROB
connotes aimless manipulation; TWIDDLE connotes gross
manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; TWEAK
connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an
oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it he is
probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at
the screen he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing
it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it.

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