chirp
chirp
Definition
chirp (c̸hʉrp)
intransitive verb
- to make the short, shrill sound of some birds or insects
- to speak in a lively, shrill way
Etymology: ME chirpen, echoic var. of chirken, chirk
transitive verb
to utter in a sharp, shrill tone
noun
a short, shrill sound
chirp′er noun
chirp
Synonyms
chirp
v.
chirp
Usage Examples
Object
- noise: Chirping noise comes to tiger woods council meeting historic buildings dating.
- bird: Then, the effect of the chirping birds will be accompanied by the ones right outside your window!
- sound: The wanting male pursues the female and makes a fine chirping sound with its mouth closed.
Converse of object
- hear: Later in the day we were driving around, and as we passed the old folks home I heard a chirp.
Adjective modifier
- little: His happy little chirp is one of our most familiar bird sounds.
Modifies a noun
- bandwidth: The three chirp bandwidths that can be synthesized are 160 MHz, 40 MHz and 10 MHz.
- system: The chirp system did not produce viable results probably due to gravels in the channel.
- rate: Why do you think that the chirp rate is a good indicator to a female of the quality of a male?
Modifying Another Word
- softly: You nod slightly Jolen flutters his small, feathered wings - Jolen chirps softly.
- loudly: All different kinds, all chirping loudly at each other.
- away: The London sparrows are chirping away at a fine rate in the garden.
- quietly: He peers at your wings ' shape and chirps quietly to himself.
- still: She looked deep into him and they made love, the birds still chirping and the ground still damp.
Noun used with modifier
- bird: Birds chirp, Bush chortles, Rolf Harris sings!
- cricket: From the moment the crickets chirp in on the sublime " Summer's caldron " , the tone is set for a uplifting album.
Preposition: of
- bird: I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the window.
- cricket: And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
- grasshopper: A voice perhaps that sounds like the chirping of a grasshopper?
- sparrow: The air was full of the chirping of the sparrows.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: Elaine then chirps up ' How many grown men does it take to fix a TVR?
Browse dictionary entries near chirp
- chiropter
- chiropractic
- chiropody
- Chiron
- chiromancy
- chirography
- chiro-
- chirk
- Chirico
- chiral
- chirpy
- chirr
- chirrup
- chirurgeon
- chisel
- chiseled
- Chisholm Trail
- Chişinau
- chit
- Chita
