(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).
Pue
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before LRLN (base line), increasing treadmill speed for horses from standing to the trot and gallop progressively increased HR, respiratory frequency, VImax, VEmax, PuI, PuE, Hb, and PaCO2 values and decreased PaO2, pH, and HCO3- values; inspiratory and expiratory impedances were unchanged.
(2) Minute volume decreased at exercise after LRLN, but the changes were not significant; LRLN had no effect on VEmax, PuE, ZE, heart rate, arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2), or VT. Subtotal arytenoidectomy did not improve upper airway flow mechanics or blood gas measurements impaired by laryngeal hemiplegia.
(3) Los otros dos grandes parques de la ciudad, Bosque de Aragón y Bosque de Tlalpan, tienen horarios aún más reducidos, pues diariamente cierran, como más tarde, a las 6pm.
(4) At baseline, increasing treadmill speed progressively increased peak inspiratory and expiratory flow (VImax and VEmax, respectively), peak inspiratory and expiratory transupper airway pressure (PuI and PuE, respectively), respiratory frequency (f), tidal volume (VT), minute volume (VE), and heart rate.
(5) Functional analysis of the deletions in Dictyostelium transformants revealed two short regulatory sequences: a positive upstream element (PUE) between -599 and -572 which increases transcription by a factor of 10 but does not affect the developmental pattern of expression and an upstream activator sequence (UAS) between -249 and -215 which is essential for transcription and proper developmental regulation.
(6) Inspiratory and expiratory transupper airway pressures (PuI, PuE, respectively) were determined as pressure differences between barometric pressure and lateral tracheal pressure.
(7) Entre el 2000 y el 2012, la obesidad en población adulta ha mostrado una constante tendencia a la alta, pues un 16% de la población de la ciudad se vio afectada en el año 2000, un 19% en 2006, y un 26% en 2012.
(8) case of Capillaria hepatica seen in the Mexican Republic is reported together with clinical and laboratory findings of the visceral larva migrans syndrome, diagnosis which was made at the Hospital of Specialties of the Mexican Social Security Institute at Puebla, Pue.
(9) Left recurrent laryngeal neurectomy had no effect on PuE, VEmax, HR, PaO2, pH, Hb, or expiratory impedance values.
(10) After site-directed mutagenesis, the genes coding for the 42- and 51-kilodalton (kDa) mosquitocidal proteins of Bacillus sphaericus 2362 were placed under the regulation of the aprE (subtilisin) promoter of the Bacillus subtilis vector pUE (a derivative of pUB18).