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verbˈtwɪtəˈtwɪdər [no object]1(of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. sparrows twittered under the eaves the swallows were settling to roost with a good deal of twittering Example sentencesExamples - Birds twittered merrily as they fluttered by and squirrels chattered as they raced up and down the limbs gathering nuts.
- There were a few trees off in the distance, some small birds twittering and flittering among the branches.
- Birds twittered happily, as if somehow this was all okay.
- Birds twittered and snapped up the insect life that failed to scurry away, their songs filling the air with brilliant melody.
- I could hear birds twittering as they flew from branch to branch, and under it all the low roaring boom of the sea.
- The clouds had dispersed, the sky was once more clear and bright with stars, and the awakening birds twittered softly in the gloomy trees.
- A silence descended upon the two of us, with the birds twittering over our heads and the horses stamping impatiently beneath us.
- The boy began to play that fiddle, and when he did, the animals began to dance, the trees swayed in harmony, the birds twittered with joy, and the wind stayed silent to listen.
- As the birds twitter in the winter air at dawn, a burly Iraqi grandmother in black makes bread in an open-air oven for an extended family of 20.
- It's the first time we've lived anywhere bordering on rural and whereas in town we would get a fair few birds twittering away, here it's like living in an aviary.
- Birds twittered, flying here and there for food, buzzing around the party of travellers as they moved on, towards the horizon.
- Birds twittered in the distance, their singing blending beautifully with the sound of the rippling water.
- A bird twittering outside her window welcomed Celly back into the land of the waking.
- I remember looking longingly outside, where the birds twittered in the tall, skinny trees nearby.
- Oaks swayed overhead, and a bird twittered sharply from far off, its call echoing through the fading blackness.
- He heard, acutely, birds twittering, the sighing of the wind, the far off sounds of farmers in their distant fields, too distant to be of help.
- The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline.
- From somewhere she could hear the trickle of a stream and the sound of birds, the air smelled clean and fresh and it seemed a a thousand birds were twittering in the trees.
- It was nice and peaceful up there listening to the birds twittering and the sound of the stream.
- It's always kind of distressing when the dawn cracks the sky open and birds start twittering.
Synonyms chirp, chirrup, cheep, tweet, peep, chitter, chatter, trill, warble, sing - 1.1 Talk in a light, high-pitched voice.
old ladies in the congregation twittered Example sentencesExamples - ‘No, that would be you, Prime Minister,’ the high voice of the Prince twittered and circled about the human's ears.
- She twittered and tweeted and seemed to move imperceptibly whilst standing completely still.
- 1.2 Talk rapidly and at length in a trivial way.
he twittered on about buying a new workshop with direct speech ‘What a great crowd’, Perry twittered Example sentencesExamples - Before long, he began twittering quickly then he stopped and produced a fortune out, handing it Cloud.
- There's a bit of nudging and jostling while they get comfortable on their roost, but then suddenly the twittering stops as though a conductor drops his baton after the final note, then silence.
- If she seeks to free women from domestic trivia, why twitter on about chintz?
- ‘I can't imagine why you are embarrassed [sic] by this minor shortcoming,’ she twitters, adding that 95% of Scots can't sing.
- The only downside was the loud Americans who sat behind us - it was difficult to decide what was more annoying: their constant twittering or the woman's tendency to try and sing along.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle on/away, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blather, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel informal yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter British informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle Scottish & Irish informal slabber Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic twaddle, clack, twattle
2Make a posting on the social media application Twitter. many active bloggers are twittering more and more these days Example sentencesExamples - I've seen people twitter in haiku only.
- Even Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now twittering to the troops.
- There's 15,000 16,000, almost 15,000 people who are twittering with us.
- At the same time, the media dodos who are still in self-denial over devolution continue to twitter, irrespective of the evidence.
nounˈtwɪtəˈtwɪdər 1A series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds. his words were cut off by a faint electronic twitter Example sentencesExamples - There was a hushed twitter among the other Dukes, then silence.
- For a minute or two there is nothing but the twitter of indigenous songbirds and the occasional distant laughter of fellow lovers of the game.
- Cassie laughs, not a normal ‘ha that's so funny’ laugh, but a more of a ditzy twitter.
- Replaying his reel-to-reel tape, Jurgenson was stunned when he supposedly heard - between the twitters of the blackbirds - the distinct voice of his mother.
- There wasn't any sound around besides my footsteps on the ground and the occasional twitter of birds.
- The twitters of agreement amongst her friends drowned out Raven's plea of, ‘He's not mine…‘
- Their song is a bubbly, metallic series of beeps and twitters.
- She wasn't a visitor to the forest, she was part of it - a small bit of herself in every shift of the wind, every leaf, every twitter of birdsong.
- His is droning electronic pulses, tones, twitters - an ever-escalating loop of frozen machine-age ominousness.
- And there was a twitter of laughter and that kind of thing.
- Inexplicably, digital noise reduction seems to have been used, which causes frequent twitter along the edges.
- They returned to their previous conversations, with only a few sideways glances and twitters.
- If you go out of an evening and listen to these birds migrating overhead you hear all sorts of little twitters, most of which don't sound anything like what a normal bird sounds like at all.
- Around her was a twitter of laughter and several odd looks.
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- A few rats and some crows stirred at his coming and scampered or flew off, releasing angry caws and twitters as they cursed Romon for interrupting their meal.
- A sweet twitter caught their attention, and Norise crossed to the open window.
- Triple notes ring out arrogantly, like three big drops of water dripping loudly into a quiet pool, interspersed with delicate twitters so high - pitched I can barely pick them up.
- Angie couldn't seem to peel herself away from me, her occasional giggles sounding like bells amongst the childish twitters of her younger siblings and the mature chuckles of her elders.
- Although ornithologists have amassed vast recorded archives of glides, twitters, and warbles, little is known of the origin and function of avian musicianship.
Synonyms chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, cheep, cheeping, tweet, tweeting, peep, peeping, chitter, chittering, trill, trilling, warble, warbling song, cry, call - 1.1mass noun Idle or ignorant talk.
Example sentencesExamples - Lizaveta is so victimized in her abused and tortured twitter that she can't gain our sympathy, especially when she acts like she doesn't understand she'd be better off without the crazy old coot.
Synonyms prattle, chatter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blather, blether, rambling informal yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter British informal wittering, nattering, chuntering archaic clack, twattle
Derivatives nounˈtwɪt(ə)rəˈtwɪd(ə)rər Increasingly, however, the leader herself is coming across as one of the country's leading twitterers. Example sentencesExamples - Sofya is a bit of a twitterer, and the standout among the women is Solovieva, the one who gets the ‘mad scene’ after her husband-to-be is hanged.
- She is anything but a twitterer, though - it is the warmth of the voice that makes it truly heavenly.
adjectiveˈtwɪtəriˈtwɪd(ə)ri ‘Psst,’ he called to Carly, ‘Why're you so twittery all of the sudden?’ Example sentencesExamples - It's been 22 years since her first hit, but she still wears her hair like an overgrown schoolgirl, and retains a twittery voice that makes her sound like an exceptionally late developer.
- Endowed with a muscular alto that automatically storms to the top of its range on almost every song, she's nothing if not confident, and a lesson to the twittery Kylies of this world.
- We've never seen stuff like it before, and we get terribly excited and twittery about it.
- Technically, she was a coloratura soprano, but her voice has none of the twittery or harsh qualities that one sometimes finds in French coloraturas.
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): imitative. chat from Middle English: In medieval times chat was formed as a shorter version of chatter, which itself started life as an imitation of the sound made by people chatting away, rather as jabber (Late Middle English) and twitter (Late Middle English) imitated the sound they described. The chattering classes are liberal, well-educated people, often working in the media, who are fond of expressing their views on any and every subject. This name for them has been around since at least the early 1980s. The success of the website called Twitter has led to heated debate among users as to whether what they do should be called to twitter or to tweet (mid 19th century)—yet another word imitating the sound of birds. See also jargon
Rhymes bitter, committer, critter, embitter, emitter, fitter, flitter, fritter, glitter, gritter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, permitter, pitta, quitter, remitter, sitter, skitter, slitter, spitter, splitter, submitter, titter, transmitter, witter verbˈtwɪdərˈtwidər [no object]1(of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. Example sentencesExamples - He heard, acutely, birds twittering, the sighing of the wind, the far off sounds of farmers in their distant fields, too distant to be of help.
- It was nice and peaceful up there listening to the birds twittering and the sound of the stream.
- Birds twittered merrily as they fluttered by and squirrels chattered as they raced up and down the limbs gathering nuts.
- I could hear birds twittering as they flew from branch to branch, and under it all the low roaring boom of the sea.
- The clouds had dispersed, the sky was once more clear and bright with stars, and the awakening birds twittered softly in the gloomy trees.
- Birds twittered happily, as if somehow this was all okay.
- From somewhere she could hear the trickle of a stream and the sound of birds, the air smelled clean and fresh and it seemed a a thousand birds were twittering in the trees.
- It's always kind of distressing when the dawn cracks the sky open and birds start twittering.
- A bird twittering outside her window welcomed Celly back into the land of the waking.
- There were a few trees off in the distance, some small birds twittering and flittering among the branches.
- It's the first time we've lived anywhere bordering on rural and whereas in town we would get a fair few birds twittering away, here it's like living in an aviary.
- As the birds twitter in the winter air at dawn, a burly Iraqi grandmother in black makes bread in an open-air oven for an extended family of 20.
- Oaks swayed overhead, and a bird twittered sharply from far off, its call echoing through the fading blackness.
- The boy began to play that fiddle, and when he did, the animals began to dance, the trees swayed in harmony, the birds twittered with joy, and the wind stayed silent to listen.
- Birds twittered, flying here and there for food, buzzing around the party of travellers as they moved on, towards the horizon.
- I remember looking longingly outside, where the birds twittered in the tall, skinny trees nearby.
- A silence descended upon the two of us, with the birds twittering over our heads and the horses stamping impatiently beneath us.
- Birds twittered in the distance, their singing blending beautifully with the sound of the rippling water.
- The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline.
- Birds twittered and snapped up the insect life that failed to scurry away, their songs filling the air with brilliant melody.
Synonyms chirp, chirrup, cheep, tweet, peep, chitter, chatter, trill, warble, sing - 1.1 Talk in a light, high-pitched voice.
old ladies in the congregation twittered Example sentencesExamples - ‘No, that would be you, Prime Minister,’ the high voice of the Prince twittered and circled about the human's ears.
- She twittered and tweeted and seemed to move imperceptibly whilst standing completely still.
- 1.2 Talk rapidly and at length in an idle or trivial way.
he twittered on about buying a new workshop Example sentencesExamples - Before long, he began twittering quickly then he stopped and produced a fortune out, handing it Cloud.
- If she seeks to free women from domestic trivia, why twitter on about chintz?
- The only downside was the loud Americans who sat behind us - it was difficult to decide what was more annoying: their constant twittering or the woman's tendency to try and sing along.
- ‘I can't imagine why you are embarrassed [sic] by this minor shortcoming,’ she twitters, adding that 95% of Scots can't sing.
- There's a bit of nudging and jostling while they get comfortable on their roost, but then suddenly the twittering stops as though a conductor drops his baton after the final note, then silence.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blather, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel
2Make a posting on the social media application Twitter. many active bloggers are twittering more and more these days Example sentencesExamples - There's 15,000 16,000, almost 15,000 people who are twittering with us.
- At the same time, the media dodos who are still in self-denial over devolution continue to twitter, irrespective of the evidence.
- Even Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now twittering to the troops.
- I've seen people twitter in haiku only.
nounˈtwɪdərˈtwidər 1A series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds. his words were cut off by a faint electronic twitter Example sentencesExamples - She wasn't a visitor to the forest, she was part of it - a small bit of herself in every shift of the wind, every leaf, every twitter of birdsong.
- And there was a twitter of laughter and that kind of thing.
- His is droning electronic pulses, tones, twitters - an ever-escalating loop of frozen machine-age ominousness.
- For a minute or two there is nothing but the twitter of indigenous songbirds and the occasional distant laughter of fellow lovers of the game.
- Cassie laughs, not a normal ‘ha that's so funny’ laugh, but a more of a ditzy twitter.
- They returned to their previous conversations, with only a few sideways glances and twitters.
- Angie couldn't seem to peel herself away from me, her occasional giggles sounding like bells amongst the childish twitters of her younger siblings and the mature chuckles of her elders.
- Inexplicably, digital noise reduction seems to have been used, which causes frequent twitter along the edges.
- If you go out of an evening and listen to these birds migrating overhead you hear all sorts of little twitters, most of which don't sound anything like what a normal bird sounds like at all.
- There wasn't any sound around besides my footsteps on the ground and the occasional twitter of birds.
- A sweet twitter caught their attention, and Norise crossed to the open window.
- The twitters of agreement amongst her friends drowned out Raven's plea of, ‘He's not mine…‘
- A few rats and some crows stirred at his coming and scampered or flew off, releasing angry caws and twitters as they cursed Romon for interrupting their meal.
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- Their song is a bubbly, metallic series of beeps and twitters.
- Replaying his reel-to-reel tape, Jurgenson was stunned when he supposedly heard - between the twitters of the blackbirds - the distinct voice of his mother.
- Around her was a twitter of laughter and several odd looks.
- Although ornithologists have amassed vast recorded archives of glides, twitters, and warbles, little is known of the origin and function of avian musicianship.
- There was a hushed twitter among the other Dukes, then silence.
- Triple notes ring out arrogantly, like three big drops of water dripping loudly into a quiet pool, interspersed with delicate twitters so high - pitched I can barely pick them up.
Synonyms chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, cheep, cheeping, tweet, tweeting, peep, peeping, chitter, chittering, trill, trilling, warble, warbling - 1.1 Idle or ignorant talk.
Example sentencesExamples - Lizaveta is so victimized in her abused and tortured twitter that she can't gain our sympathy, especially when she acts like she doesn't understand she'd be better off without the crazy old coot.
Synonyms prattle, chatter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blather, blether, rambling
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): imitative. |