(v. i.) To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.
(v. i.) To chirp like a bird.
(v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.
(v. i.) Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.
Example Sentences:
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).