(v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
(v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
(v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
(v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
(n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
(n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(2) The selective kappa antagonists Mr1452 and Mr2266 significantly precipitated only urination and teeth chattering.
(3) Also note chatter of Bernanke stepping down next week (6-weeks early), if successor Yellen gained full Senate approval, allowing her to chair the December FOMC meeting.
(4) Rumours and allegations about excesses, corruption and infighting, mostly made anonymously, are impossible to verify, though Riyadh’s chattering classes have heard them all.
(5) caused a significant decrease in DA levels accompanied by typical withdrawal symptoms such as wet dog shakes and teeth-chattering.
(6) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
(7) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(8) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
(9) • Try to ignore the noise around you: the chatter, the parties, the reviews, the envy, the shame.
(10) Hollow-eyed children beg outside restaurants and cafes that hum with the chatter of shisha-smoking customers.
(11) To many shoppers – and I exclude here members of the chattering classes, who were always rather sniffy about Tesco – the company’s decline has been evident for some time, at least for the two years that its market share has been falling.
(12) Few people outside Moscow’s inner ring road may be able to tell their Parmigiano Reggiano from their Grana Padano, but it is not only the chattering classes who have suffered from the cheese ban.
(13) Of the 12 withdrawal signs scored, the only significant changes observed after ibogaine (compared with vehicle control) was a decrease in grooming (10 mg kg-1) and an increase in teeth chatter (5 mg kg-1).
(14) There has been inevitable chatter that Lewis is being lined up to replace MacLennan when he retires.
(15) There has been some pre-fight chatter that a commitment to God by Pacquiao has made him too polite to knock out opponents.
(16) At bedtime, he used to find the music and background chatter from his sisters' rooms comforting.
(17) The chatter was that Osborne, David Cameron and Boris Johnson were heading off for a private dinner tonight somewhere in Davos.
(18) The chatter around the sale was remarkably light on the "need for private investment in Royal Mail" (the government's mantra since 2010) and rather more concerned with share value.
(19) There is no sound apart from the chickens and chatter of voices, young and old.
(20) Similarly, attack and teeth-chattering have been shown to derive from different neural mechanisms, despite substantial overlap of both response areas.
Terrorist
Definition:
(n.) One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(3) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(4) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(5) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(6) Which brings us to the next fundamental question: Was it a terrorist attack?
(7) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(8) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(9) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
(10) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(11) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
(12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
(13) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(14) [The] execution was ordered by the IS terrorists,” it says.
(15) The pair arrived back in the office shortly before 6pm, as reports that the incident was a terrorist attack began to gain traction.
(16) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
(17) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(18) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
(19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
(20) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.