(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).
Insect
Definition:
(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.