What's the difference between chipper and chirp?

Chipper


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To chirp or chirrup.
  • (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
  • (2) Chippers did not seem to be compensating; their cotinine values equaled those expected when regular smokers were not compensating for reduced cigarette availability.
  • (3) This study explores the behavior of tobacco "chippers"--very light smokers who regularly use tobacco without developing dependence.
  • (4) Chippers' blood nicotine levels increased significantly, in amounts equaling those of dependent smokers.
  • (5) Out of the 15 chippers examined, 5 presented vibration-induced white finger syndrome.
  • (6) Blood samples were obtained before and after 10 chippers (smoking up to 5 cigarettes per day) and 12 dependent smokers (20 to 40 cigarettes per day) smoked a cigarette.
  • (7) But I am a little taken aback by how chipper he is.
  • (8) In contrast to the deprivation and destitution that can result from sanctioning, the fictional Zac and Sarah, with their beatific expressions beaming out from leaflets, are eerily chipper.
  • (9) chippers 17 July 2013 9:26am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate As a teacher (and a parent) I find this incredibly depressing.
  • (10) However, the digital artery flow rates of the severe VWF group increased substantially (to about three times the resting level) after the chipping episode, whereas the flow rates of the novices and the non-VWF chippers did not change appreciably.
  • (11) Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire showed us chipper orphans in a development porn-esque version of India; much of the media westerners encounter of the global south is produced by white people, for white eyes, featuring white voices .
  • (12) Despite higher air lead concentrations, sanders' blood lead levels were not elevated compared with chippers and were only slightly elevated compared with non-lead workers.
  • (13) An associate at the meeting described him as seeming "quite low" and "not as ebulliant and chipper as usual".
  • (14) I think in some ways she represented his sanctuary.” She speaks in a chipper, chatty manner, much like Mrs Booth, but in tones crisper than the character’s soft burr.
  • (15) For 1,028 male workers (705 riveters, 284 chippers, and 39 grinders), the prevalence rate of the syndrome was 13.4% and for a reference group of 256 workers it was 1.6%.
  • (16) This finding, when coupled with other data about chippers' smoking patterns and nicotine absorption, establish that chippers cannot maintain substantial plasma nicotine levels between cigarettes, and thus suggest that attempts to maintain minimal trough levels of nicotine do not underlie chippers' smoking.
  • (17) Assays of cotinine (a long-lasting nicotine metabolite) also suggested that chippers' per-cigarette nicotine absorption equaled that of dependent smokers.
  • (18) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
  • (19) There were puppies and cookies, and while it was cute and chipper, it was immediately forgettable.
  • (20) Indeed, when asked about Congress, Bernanke adopted the chipper tone of a wife who knows her husband will never pick up his socks and has just accepted the task.

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).