What's the difference between chimp and chirp?

Chimp


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of sequence alignments with the two previously described members of the TIMP (tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases) family, TIMP-1 and TIMP-2, from various species indicates that ChIMP-3 is a related but distinct protein.
  • (2) Just last year, a researcher at Jane Goodall's primate sanctuary in South Africa suffered "multiple and severe bite wounds" after getting too close to a group of chimps and being dragged off.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hick's team first identified the existence of the Bili chimps in 2007 but their new survey, published this week in the journal Biological Conservation , reveals a vast, thriving mega-culture.
  • (4) Harboured by the remote and pristine forests in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on the border of the Central African Republic , the chimps were completely unknown until recently – apart from the local legends of giant apes that ate lions and howled at the moon.
  • (5) "The further away from the road the more fearless the chimps got," he added.
  • (6) The chimps are an endangered species and fully protected in DRC law.
  • (7) • A chimp-trekking permit costs $90pp rwandatourism.com ) 12 Go barefoot in paradise: Likoma island, Malawi Kaya Mawa resort on Likoma Island, Malawi.
  • (8) There are two changes in the gene's 118 DNA letters between chickens and chimps, but 18 changes between chimps and us.
  • (9) Moments when I have seen my kids go face to face with a playful chimp on the other side of the glass, and become startled at the likeness between them.
  • (10) Steven Wise, the lead attorney for the Nonhuman Rights Project, the group arguing on behalf of the chimps, said that the apes are unlawfully imprisoned and that the court should relieve them.
  • (11) Slowly she built up a picture of chimp life in all its domestic detail: the grooming, the food-sharing, the status wrangles, and the fights.
  • (12) 4.08pm: Below the line, baerchen is upbeat : "Having watched England's superstar striker give the ball away umpty-nine times against Man City last night with some of the clumsiest touches seen since my brief skirmish with a girl from Hackenthorpe in 1971, they might as well give the job to Charles Chimp for all the difference it will make.
  • (13) Seventeen chimps (7 unoperated controls, 5 shams, and 5 animals with early SPL reaction) were used in the present study.
  • (14) Like chimp populations in other parts of Africa, the Bili chimps use sticks to fish for ants, but here the tools are up to 2.5 metres long.
  • (15) The Chimp-9 and 64-7255 strains differed from the variola virus only in their greater pathogenicity for white mice after intracerebral inoculation.
  • (16) Nim, likewise, features old footage of a real chimp, spliced with that of a furred-up actor employed to re-enact crucial scenes not recorded at the time.
  • (17) The pair have faced criticism, too, from an animal rights group – which has called for a boycott over the use of a live chimp in one of the film's scenes of excess.
  • (18) Antibodies to the hepatitis B virus core did not appear necessary for protection against hepatitis B virus infection in these chimps.
  • (19) For all measurements, three major clusters could be discerned: 1) humans, chimps, and rhesus monkeys; 2) dogs and baboons; and 3) cats, rats, and rabbits.
  • (20) The most advanced is the trial at the Jenner Institute, which uses ChAd3 (chimp adenovirus type 3, a chimpanzee “cold” virus) as a vector (or agent) to deliver a small segment of genetic material from the Zaire strain of the virus.

Chirp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
  • (n.) A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The z-transform is introduced and the ideas behind the chirp-z transform are described.
  • (2) "They're still so little," they chirped, as piggy, bunny and Li Li lined up to start reception.
  • (3) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
  • (4) The magnitude of the elicited chirps depended upon the timing of the pulse stimulus with reference to the phase of the pacemaker cycle (Figs.
  • (5) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.30pm BST 57th over: England 124-6 (Ali 32, Prior 0) "Re over-chirping players," says Austin Elliott, "surely the umpires need a meaningful sanction?
  • (6) A subject with a left pontine lesion performed at chance level when the chirp was presented to her left ear.
  • (7) Moreover, the response is sex-specific with regard to the sign of the frequency difference, with females chirping preferentially on the positive and most males on the negative Df.
  • (8) 4.40pm BST "Don't worry, it's not all stateside ballet and south-coast nuptials," chirps Josh.
  • (9) Thus it would seem that duplex perception makes chirp perception more vulnerable to the effects of stimulus degradation.
  • (10) The internet has been awash with rumours, the inane chirping of the Twitter ranks rising slowly to a roar.
  • (11) Although no definite signature could be obtained for the audible "chirps" by energy density spectrum analysis the observer could readily distinguish these chirps from the burbling noise produced by air emboli.
  • (12) Late summer light glances off stubble-filled fields, a delicate breeze rustles through the trees and birds chirp contentedly.
  • (13) Narrow bands of the increased sensitivity which are typical of the threshold curves in sea-gull embryos essentially correlated with the chirps of embryos.
  • (14) I would not mind if the “chirps” were ever actually funny, but most of them remind me of what my children thought were jokes when they were three and the rest are just nasty sniping from overprivileged layabouts.
  • (15) The only sound is the chirping of late-summer cicadas and the occasional beep of a Geiger counter.
  • (16) When a formant transition and the remainder of a syllable are presented to subjects' opposite ears, most subjects perceive two simultaneous sounds: a syllable and a nonspeech chirp.
  • (17) At dusk on the Rio Negro, for example, the daily commute of birds is a chirping carnival of colour.
  • (18) Stimulation sites eliciting only chirps could be separated from sites eliciting only gradual shifts by as little as 60 micron.
  • (19) Microstimulation experiments have shown that chirp-like EOD modulations can be elicited from a subnucleus of the PPn, the PPn-C (Kawasaki and Heiligenberg, 1988; Kawasaki et al., 1988).
  • (20) Play-backs of recordings of male courtship chirps can induce spawning in gravid females (Hagedorn and Heiligenberg, 1985).

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