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Definition of chirp in English: chirpverb tʃəːptʃərp [no object]1(of a small bird or an insect) make a short, sharp, high-pitched sound. outside, the crickets chirped monotonously Example sentencesExamples - We were shown into a smart little auditorium where big speakers were pumping out relaxing little sounds of birds chirping and water trickling.
- She heard the late birds chirp, the crickets whistle, the stray dogs howl.
- Estrella yawned a little, and closed her eyes, listening silently to the serene sound of birds chirping and the small insects of summer buzzing.
- Birds were singing, insects were chirping, and people could be heard talking in their homes.
- The birds stopped chirping and even the insects went silent.
- It is quiet and calming and every so often one can here a bird singing and crickets chirping.
- The bigger trees were swaying easily in the cool breeze, their leaves making a gentle swooshing sound that would mix with the voices of small birds chirping back and forth to one another.
- I hear the sound of birds chirping, the sound of the occasional mutt barking.
- With the sun shining bright and the birds chirping, and the sound of my fathers guards marching around the palace area.
- The entire area was abuzz with various sounds in the air, such as leaves rustling in the wind, birds chirping, insects humming, and the distinct sound of flowing water.
- Lyonha awoke to the sound of birds chirping and trees singing their ancient chants.
- At that point I began to hear birds chirping over the explosive sound of the firing range, I looked around in confusion, and then was awakened suddenly.
- Birds were chirping quietly, a sound that increased in volume as the minutes passed.
- On Friday morning, Sheree awakened to delightful sunbeams pouring into the room from the window and the sound of baby birds chirping in their nest.
- The next morning, Adrian was awoken to the sounds of small birds chirping near his open windowsill.
- We are immediately greeted by the lively sounds of early birds chirping while the inviting aromas coming from the main attraction, the charcoal grill, easily flip my hunger switch.
- The sounds of merry birds chirping and horses neighing pleasantly awoke Nyerel.
- It was a lovely day on the planet Quamina, bright and green, birds chirping; insects jumping.
- He could hear the sound of the birds chirping as they flew by, the flow of the nearby river and the wind blowing against the trees above them.
- The birds are chirping merrily and I can hear the usual sound of motor cars hustling to reach wherever it is that their drivers need to get to.
Synonyms tweet, twitter, chirrup, cheep, peep, chitter, chatter, chirr sing, warble, trill, pipe - 1.1with direct speech (of a person) say something in a lively and cheerful way.
‘Good morning!’ chirped Alex Example sentencesExamples - ‘Good evening, ma'am,’ the plump elevator attendant chirped.
- Prince William chirps that he's ‘been on safari several times’ and is currently ‘teaching himself Swahili’.
- ‘Seal's destroyed though,’ Chris chirped cheerfully before turning doubtful eyes on Aaron.
- ‘Why Adele you're looking just lovely,’ Ben chirped, grinning like a moron and eyeing off the tracksuit pants Adele was sporting.
- ‘Hi, sweetie,’ Michelle chirped and gave him a quick hug.
- ‘The audience will have to move from spot to spot, to watch the scenes enacted in different parts of the compound,’ the children chirp in glee.
- ‘Good morning, Aaron,’ Mary chirped happily, holding an armful of fresh bed linens.
- ‘I don't like you,’ one little girl chirped after throwing toy aeroplanes at him.
- At one point Washington chirped, ‘I hear that they only get, like, three hours of sunlight in the winter!’
- ‘Excuse me young man, it's time to enter Michigan,’ a cheerful flight attendant chirped.
- Ten seconds later this boy chirped up ‘Oh yeah, it's the minutes silence today isn't it?’
- ‘I believe in Christ too,’ a red-headed woman chirped in.
- ‘That's just behind the bakery where your grandma used to get her morning rolls,’ she'll chirp, as the guy you've never seen before is revealed as having been the baddie all along.
- He had Leira in the car with him, and she happily chirped a ‘hello’ to Lauren.
- ‘Welcome,’ the chorus of flight attendants chirped, bowing, as every person entered the plane.
- Terry had chirped, ‘He talks to me and everything!’
- The second Catholic woman chirps, ‘Well, my son is a Bishop.’
- ‘I want to be a doctor when I grow up and I'll miss her when she's gone,’ she cheerfully chirped.
- ‘Desalination’, the kids chirped, to the applause of the audience.
- ‘We can take you there, if you want,’ the little girl chirped, ‘for a price.’
2South African with object Speak to (someone) in a taunting way. he chirped two policemen just before he was arrested Example sentencesExamples - Everyone has had a pop at him for his petulance in chirping her and getting sent off.
noun tʃəːptʃərp A short, sharp, high-pitched sound. the chirps and whirrs of insects Example sentencesExamples - A single chirp is a short series of sound pulses followed by silence.
- It wasn't the stark buzz of a bee, or the sharp chirp of a grasshopper - it was the simple, quiet hum of a butterfly.
- It's during this time that male humpbacks emit vocalizations that sound, at least to human ears, like barks, chirps, and moans.
- The crickets and cicadas were already revved up outside, making their chirps and clicks that used to drive me nuts back home.
- While woodchucks tend to be pretty silent, their cousins are quite vocal and emit loud piercing whistles or chirps at the slightest provocation.
- The melody is madly inventive and celebratory, and the singers careen around utterly at home in this mirror-world of whistles, chirps, flutes and cymbals.
- The ants' communication sounds like high-pitched, rhythmical chirps.
- Tern rubbed his neck as though he had hurt it in the fall, made a little consoling noise like a chirp to himself, and glanced at her curiously.
- ‘The territorial calls produced by the males are short buzzes, trills, chirps and combinations of clicks,’ said French as she demonstrated.
- To avoid collisions while in flight, they emit high-frequency chirps and process the echoes that return from nearby objects.
- Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
- But the bright, blindingly yellow-white sun glared down onto Nikrya, and sparrows shot from tree to tree, chattering in high-pitched chirps.
- There are chirps and squeals and squawks and song.
- Hearing a chirp and a buzzing sound on my right, I turned my head.
- Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo.
- Then Kitten rolled her eyes back in her head, and gave a small sound that might have been a chirp or a squeal.
- The music of James Lucas, a 20-year-old from Bristol, chirps, chimes, buzzes and brims with otherworldly eeriness.
- It's difficult to get anywhere in the woods if you choose to stop every time you hear a chirp or a song.
- His monotonous chirp sounded precisely like the shooting noise in Space Invaders.
- Although the empty buildings on the now derelict structure are silent by day, they come noisily alive on winter nights with the chirps, whistles, and varied murmurings of starlings - tens of thousands of them.
Synonyms trill, trilling, song, birdsong, cry, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling
Derivatives noun Zeidel is no chanteuse; rather, she's a chirper, and a beautiful one at that. Example sentencesExamples - And Sunny here, Sunny is the resident chirper.
- Thankfully, one rather knowledgeable chirper stopped by the office today with a short but concrete message about AMD's Opteron plans.
- Are those chirpers supposed to be a ‘birds-behind-bars’ metaphor?
Origin Late Middle English: imitative. Rhymes burp, Earp, slurp, twerp, usurp Definition of chirp in US English: chirpverbCHərptʃərp [no object]1(typically of a small bird or an insect) utter a short, sharp, high-pitched sound. outside, the crickets chirped monotonously Example sentencesExamples - At that point I began to hear birds chirping over the explosive sound of the firing range, I looked around in confusion, and then was awakened suddenly.
- The sounds of merry birds chirping and horses neighing pleasantly awoke Nyerel.
- We were shown into a smart little auditorium where big speakers were pumping out relaxing little sounds of birds chirping and water trickling.
- I hear the sound of birds chirping, the sound of the occasional mutt barking.
- Birds were chirping quietly, a sound that increased in volume as the minutes passed.
- Lyonha awoke to the sound of birds chirping and trees singing their ancient chants.
- The bigger trees were swaying easily in the cool breeze, their leaves making a gentle swooshing sound that would mix with the voices of small birds chirping back and forth to one another.
- The entire area was abuzz with various sounds in the air, such as leaves rustling in the wind, birds chirping, insects humming, and the distinct sound of flowing water.
- The next morning, Adrian was awoken to the sounds of small birds chirping near his open windowsill.
- He could hear the sound of the birds chirping as they flew by, the flow of the nearby river and the wind blowing against the trees above them.
- It was a lovely day on the planet Quamina, bright and green, birds chirping; insects jumping.
- Estrella yawned a little, and closed her eyes, listening silently to the serene sound of birds chirping and the small insects of summer buzzing.
- We are immediately greeted by the lively sounds of early birds chirping while the inviting aromas coming from the main attraction, the charcoal grill, easily flip my hunger switch.
- She heard the late birds chirp, the crickets whistle, the stray dogs howl.
- The birds are chirping merrily and I can hear the usual sound of motor cars hustling to reach wherever it is that their drivers need to get to.
- With the sun shining bright and the birds chirping, and the sound of my fathers guards marching around the palace area.
- Birds were singing, insects were chirping, and people could be heard talking in their homes.
- It is quiet and calming and every so often one can here a bird singing and crickets chirping.
- The birds stopped chirping and even the insects went silent.
- On Friday morning, Sheree awakened to delightful sunbeams pouring into the room from the window and the sound of baby birds chirping in their nest.
Synonyms tweet, twitter, chirrup, cheep, peep, chitter, chatter, chirr - 1.1with direct speech (of a person) say something in a lively and cheerful way.
“Good morning!” chirped Alex Example sentencesExamples - ‘I believe in Christ too,’ a red-headed woman chirped in.
- Prince William chirps that he's ‘been on safari several times’ and is currently ‘teaching himself Swahili’.
- ‘Hi, sweetie,’ Michelle chirped and gave him a quick hug.
- ‘We can take you there, if you want,’ the little girl chirped, ‘for a price.’
- ‘Desalination’, the kids chirped, to the applause of the audience.
- ‘Welcome,’ the chorus of flight attendants chirped, bowing, as every person entered the plane.
- ‘I don't like you,’ one little girl chirped after throwing toy aeroplanes at him.
- ‘Good morning, Aaron,’ Mary chirped happily, holding an armful of fresh bed linens.
- Terry had chirped, ‘He talks to me and everything!’
- ‘That's just behind the bakery where your grandma used to get her morning rolls,’ she'll chirp, as the guy you've never seen before is revealed as having been the baddie all along.
- At one point Washington chirped, ‘I hear that they only get, like, three hours of sunlight in the winter!’
- ‘Good evening, ma'am,’ the plump elevator attendant chirped.
- ‘I want to be a doctor when I grow up and I'll miss her when she's gone,’ she cheerfully chirped.
- ‘Excuse me young man, it's time to enter Michigan,’ a cheerful flight attendant chirped.
- ‘Why Adele you're looking just lovely,’ Ben chirped, grinning like a moron and eyeing off the tracksuit pants Adele was sporting.
- Ten seconds later this boy chirped up ‘Oh yeah, it's the minutes silence today isn't it?’
- The second Catholic woman chirps, ‘Well, my son is a Bishop.’
- He had Leira in the car with him, and she happily chirped a ‘hello’ to Lauren.
- ‘The audience will have to move from spot to spot, to watch the scenes enacted in different parts of the compound,’ the children chirp in glee.
- ‘Seal's destroyed though,’ Chris chirped cheerfully before turning doubtful eyes on Aaron.
nounCHərptʃərp A short, sharp, high-pitched sound. Example sentencesExamples - His monotonous chirp sounded precisely like the shooting noise in Space Invaders.
- It's during this time that male humpbacks emit vocalizations that sound, at least to human ears, like barks, chirps, and moans.
- Hearing a chirp and a buzzing sound on my right, I turned my head.
- While woodchucks tend to be pretty silent, their cousins are quite vocal and emit loud piercing whistles or chirps at the slightest provocation.
- It wasn't the stark buzz of a bee, or the sharp chirp of a grasshopper - it was the simple, quiet hum of a butterfly.
- ‘The territorial calls produced by the males are short buzzes, trills, chirps and combinations of clicks,’ said French as she demonstrated.
- To avoid collisions while in flight, they emit high-frequency chirps and process the echoes that return from nearby objects.
- The music of James Lucas, a 20-year-old from Bristol, chirps, chimes, buzzes and brims with otherworldly eeriness.
- Although the empty buildings on the now derelict structure are silent by day, they come noisily alive on winter nights with the chirps, whistles, and varied murmurings of starlings - tens of thousands of them.
- Tern rubbed his neck as though he had hurt it in the fall, made a little consoling noise like a chirp to himself, and glanced at her curiously.
- But the bright, blindingly yellow-white sun glared down onto Nikrya, and sparrows shot from tree to tree, chattering in high-pitched chirps.
- The ants' communication sounds like high-pitched, rhythmical chirps.
- There are chirps and squeals and squawks and song.
- The melody is madly inventive and celebratory, and the singers careen around utterly at home in this mirror-world of whistles, chirps, flutes and cymbals.
- A single chirp is a short series of sound pulses followed by silence.
- It's difficult to get anywhere in the woods if you choose to stop every time you hear a chirp or a song.
- The crickets and cicadas were already revved up outside, making their chirps and clicks that used to drive me nuts back home.
- Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo.
- Then Kitten rolled her eyes back in her head, and gave a small sound that might have been a chirp or a squeal.
- Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
Synonyms trill, trilling, song, birdsong, cry, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling
Origin Late Middle English: imitative. |