What's the difference between chirp and sing?

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).

Sing


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
  • (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
  • (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
  • (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
  • (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
  • (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
  • (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
  • (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
  • (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (2) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
  • (3) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (4) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (5) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
  • (6) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
  • (7) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
  • (8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (9) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (10) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
  • (11) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (12) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
  • (13) In the control group sings of irreversible damage appeared in 90 min, in the presence of phosphocreatine, 10 mM, these changes became apparent in 120 min.
  • (14) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (15) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
  • (16) Still, he has been taking singing lessons and he acknowledges that the end result "doesn't sound bad".
  • (17) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (18) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
  • (19) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
  • (20) For a few short months, the long-divided radio industry appeared to be singing from the same song sheet with the BBC and commercial radio backing the creation of a new cross-industry body, the Radio Council.