What's the difference between chirrup and chirruping?
Chirrup
Definition:
(v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
(v. i.) To chirp.
(n.) The act of chirping; a chirp.
Example Sentences:
(1) The skylark’s summer song is reduced in winter to spits of rage, each broken chirrup rendered to human ears as “get lost!” or something far ruder.
(2) Clegg chirrups with incredible naivety, given Sats, league tables and Ofsted inspections and the already quantified 20% of children with special needs, that this is not "a sort of name-and-shame table".
(3) chirrups a fate-mocking Rob Douglas, who I'm saying resides in Scotland.
(4) "Even if you do decide to go for the double they'll be good as new," chirruped David, as if they were choosing a new oven.
(5) In each was a cicada, chirruping loudly and uselessly to another, destined to spend its short time in an apartment as a rural soundtrack to an urban life.
(6) To the chirrup of bullfrogs and crickets and the occasional cry of a peacock, they march past the last dwelling in the village to a fallow field.
(7) In the original 1991 cartoon, she wasn’t content to do the housework with the help of some chirruping bluebirds: she strolled through town with her nose in a book.
(8) The news will be greeted, as is the custom, with a self-satisfied murmur from governing politicians and a chirruping chorus of cynicism from the great British public.
(9) When I visited last week, a deathly silence reigned, the only noise the chirruping of frogs in uncultivated rice paddies on the edge of town, and the bleeping of my dosimeter.
(10) "M y first Christmas in Poplar was unlike any other I had known," chirrups Jenny (Jessica Raine) as apple-cheeked urchins and flat-capped handymen galumph amiably across snow-dusted cobbles.
(11) For an hour, our group wandered round Pripyat, stepping over broken glass and lumps of wood and stone, with the constant chirrup of our radiation counters providing warnings if we strayed too far.
(12) Chirrup-chirrup for the fox be away with the chicken and the fly be on the turmutt ... but what can you expect if you leave it out at night?"
Chirruping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chirrup
Example Sentences:
(1) The skylark’s summer song is reduced in winter to spits of rage, each broken chirrup rendered to human ears as “get lost!” or something far ruder.
(2) Clegg chirrups with incredible naivety, given Sats, league tables and Ofsted inspections and the already quantified 20% of children with special needs, that this is not "a sort of name-and-shame table".
(3) chirrups a fate-mocking Rob Douglas, who I'm saying resides in Scotland.
(4) "Even if you do decide to go for the double they'll be good as new," chirruped David, as if they were choosing a new oven.
(5) In each was a cicada, chirruping loudly and uselessly to another, destined to spend its short time in an apartment as a rural soundtrack to an urban life.
(6) To the chirrup of bullfrogs and crickets and the occasional cry of a peacock, they march past the last dwelling in the village to a fallow field.
(7) In the original 1991 cartoon, she wasn’t content to do the housework with the help of some chirruping bluebirds: she strolled through town with her nose in a book.
(8) The news will be greeted, as is the custom, with a self-satisfied murmur from governing politicians and a chirruping chorus of cynicism from the great British public.
(9) When I visited last week, a deathly silence reigned, the only noise the chirruping of frogs in uncultivated rice paddies on the edge of town, and the bleeping of my dosimeter.
(10) "M y first Christmas in Poplar was unlike any other I had known," chirrups Jenny (Jessica Raine) as apple-cheeked urchins and flat-capped handymen galumph amiably across snow-dusted cobbles.
(11) For an hour, our group wandered round Pripyat, stepping over broken glass and lumps of wood and stone, with the constant chirrup of our radiation counters providing warnings if we strayed too far.
(12) Chirrup-chirrup for the fox be away with the chicken and the fly be on the turmutt ... but what can you expect if you leave it out at night?"