(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).
Staccato
Definition:
(a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
(a.) Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(2) Although staccato LAD occlusion represents a minority of patients hospitalized with unstable angina, it includes most who suffer cardiac complications.
(3) No conductor telling me when to come in, no legato or staccato to follow.
(4) Sanders, who is not a registered Democrat and self-identifies as a democratic socialist, gave a familiar stump speech on progressive themes such as single-payer healthcare, rapped out in his trademark staccato delivery.
(5) Speech of deaf talkers has often been characterized as staccato, leading to the perception of improper grouping of syllables.
(6) Julia Gichuki was fast asleep when she heard the staccato sound of gunfire drawing ever closer to the women’s hostel at her university in the town of Garissa, about 90 miles from the Kenyan border with Somalia.
(7) Instructed beforehand that excessive noise between points could cost the team points, the crowd behaved with admirable discipline, which only made their loudness more effective, coming in staccato bursts.
(8) René Brunel, who wrote about the Aissawa in the 1920s, described his experience of 'the furious tempest of drums and oboes', saying the spectators were 'in the grip of the terrifying staccato music seized by this contagious madness and ecstatic frenzy which none can resist'.
(9) Speakers with TE voices using pulmonary air were able to preserve the rythm and the syntactico-semantic structure of their speeches, as opposed to speakers with EV who often had to insufflate air into the esophagus and therefore had a staccato-like speech.
(10) His voice is urgently staccato, and he has a habit of gruffly referring to his music industry peers by surname: Spector, Orbison, Bacharach.
(11) Both presented with a characteristic staccato cough and tachypnea but little evidence of peripheral airway obstruction.
(12) Perhaps Gianni De Biasi’s players had been expecting a little more edge from the expectant 12,800 who had arrived in this provincial city from places as diverse as Tirana and Toronto, but the atmosphere never hit fever pitch – a situation perhaps unaided by the succession of downpours that lent the pre-match choreography a somewhat staccato feel.
(13) Spasmodic dysphonia is a focal dystonia that causes a loss of the fine control of intrinsic laryngeal muscles and produces a strained staccato voice.
(14) This may have been a staccato performance, one that frustrated far more than it excited, but it means the side have broken a winless streak in these finals that had stretched back to 2009.
(15) No ringing refrain emerged from a staccato seven-way conversation.
(16) The notated interpretations correlated with the presence of the 3 methods: The notated melody preceded other events in chords (chord asynchrony); events notated as phase boundaries showed greatest tempo changes (rubato); and the notated melody showed most consistent amount of overlap between adjacent events (staccato and legato).
(17) Joe clip was fast-paced, staccato, colorful, and full of verbal and action violence.
(18) Over a cacophony of piano, percussion and brass, Bush’s voice veers from oddly clipped staccato to hysterical screaming as she waxes existential about frustration and the endless search for knowledge.
(19) Each performance contained 3 expressive timing patterns: chord asynchronies, rubato patterns, and overlaps (staccato and legato).
(20) I've been infected by James's ominous, staccato delivery.