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chirp

[ churp ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a characteristic short, sharp sound, as small birds and certain insects.
  2. to make any similar sound:

    The children chirped with amusement.



verb (used with object)

  1. to sound or utter in a chirping manner:

    The little girl chirped her joy.

noun

  1. a chirping sound.

CHIRP

1

/ tʃɜːp /

acronym for

  1. Confidential Human Incidents Reporting Programme: a system, run by the RAF Institute of Medicine, by which commercial pilots can comment on safety trends without the knowledge of their employers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


chirp

2

/ tʃɜːp /

verb

  1. (esp of some birds and insects) to make a short high-pitched sound
  2. to speak in a lively fashion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a chirping sound, esp that made by a bird
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈchirper, noun
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Other Words From

  • chirper noun
  • chirping·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chirp1

1400–50; late Middle English chyrpynge (gerund); expressive word akin to cheep, chirk, etc.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chirp1

C15 (as chirpinge, gerund): of imitative origin
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Example Sentences

If you’d rather not listen to chirps and caws, just seek out music that makes you feel calm.

This might produce an “anti-chirp” — a pattern of gravitational waves opposite to a chirp’s — before plunging back in with a chirp.

Those chirps are received by any nearby Bluetooth device, such as another phone.

So any phone with Bluetooth will have data about chirps it sent out and chirps it got from other smartphones it had been near.

Information about the stored chirps would then become part of a large public database.

Nancy enjoyed music and hearing birds chirp and the sound of children playing.

In a back room, video poker machines ding and chirp with the occasional squeal of delight from a winner.

He laughed, a high-pitched chirp that sounded like a castrato.

Queeker rode up to the gap, shut his eyes, gave a chirp, and committed himself to fate and Slapover.

However, he shut his eyes, and courageously gave the accustomed chirp, and Slapover plunged down.

She is quite sure she understands what her big dog Tom says and her little canary Chirp.

Somewhere near her feet the cricket gave out an importunate chirp.

Then she heard a little restless bird chirp out its wakefulness from a nest in the ivy round the walls of the house.

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