(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?"
Peep
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
(v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
(v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
(n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
(n.) First outlook or appearance.
(n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.
(n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).
(n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(2) LTV was found to be decreased in animals treated with PEEP.
(3) Decreasing inadvertent PEEP by lengthening the expiratory time increased the compliance of the respiratory system (r = -0.74, n = 10, P less than 0.02).
(4) Experiments in volume- expanded healthy volunteers also suggest that CMV with PEEP is able to depress plasma levels of alpha-ANP.
(5) Most of these patients were managed without paralysis using intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
(6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
(7) Selective PEEP caused a larger volume increase in the dependent lung than general PEEP.
(8) In seven patients with severe respiratory distress, conventional mechanical ventilation and PEEP were used initially for respiratory support, which was changed to high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV) at the same level of airway pressure and FIO2.
(9) Oxygenation improved in both groups during the resolution of oedema with a more evident and early effect in the PEEP group.
(10) While PEEP decreased, both PA--PEEP and VT increased with increasing diameter of stenosis.
(11) Five different ventilatory patterns were used for reinflation: simulated normal breathing with and without continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), simulated deep breathing and mechanical ventilation with and without positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
(12) Hence, Paw was a major determinant of oxygenation, although a PEEP greater than Pflex appeared necessary to optimize oxygenation at a constant Paw.
(13) Continued hemodynamic and pulmonary monitoring of patients is mandatory when using PEEP.
(14) Four of the patients (14 percent) developed a pneumothorax following institution of high PEEP therapy.
(15) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
(16) However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis.
(17) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
(18) This study was performed to determine the clinical application of this technique in critically ill patients on PEEP.
(19) When the left renal vein was occluded and the RVP was maintained at the level seen during 20 cm H2O of PEEP, left RBF recovered only 50% of the difference from the flow during zero PEEP.
(20) At a PEEP of 8 cm H2O, cardiac performance was impaired significantly, with a profound decrease of the systemic and pulmonary blood flow, SVRV and SVLV and a reflectory increase of the Rs.