What's the difference between titter and twitter?

Titter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.
  • (n.) A restrained laugh.
  • (v. i.) To seesaw. See Teeter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
  • (2) But there’s also generic observational material (how British people avoid speaking to strangers on trains, and so on), and I soon found Hess’s incessant burbling and tittering around largely trivial subjects beginning to wash over me.
  • (3) The audience tittered when Murdoch said he thought the channel's news coverage had no political bias.
  • (4) Well Dave genuinely thought the reptiles would go mad for tantric sex lolz because when he tested it in cabinet people were seriously woof, Govey was so hysterical that Haguey was like, hark at Lady Govina, titter ye not missus & Picklesy kept shouting encore, so Dave said funny you should ask, well they have this position called the BT engineer as in you stay in all day and no one comes.
  • (5) There was a bit of tittering from the audience and it has to be said that in this city of nostalgia and football passion, where Diego Maradona will always be king and everybody is an expert, Benítez retains popular support.
  • (6) The muses holding up the balcony tittered and the huge chandelier, only just out of reach of Dodd's enormous tickling stick, tinkled with delight.
  • (7) Labour's shadow education secretary, and historian, Tristram Hunt retorts that it is Gove's argument, rather than unpatriotic Britons tittering over fictional tortoises, that is really shocking.
  • (8) And there was a certain amount of twitter tittering about two of the world's most eminent economists getting their sums wrong.
  • (9) It’s easier to say we are not guilty, the Russians are guilty … It reminds me of antisemitism: the Jews are guilty of everything,” Putin said at the end of his comments, which drew titters from the audience.
  • (10) Nadine Dorries "the suspended member for Mid Bedfordshire" – titter ye not – has not yet achieved her stated aim of encouraging a discussion about abortion or the nasty Lib Dems while emptying the dunny.
  • (11) There are a few titters from the crowd; the venue comfortably holds about 100, but because of the excitable reviews for Musgraves's new album, Same Trailer Different Park , the room is crammed with perhaps double that.
  • (12) With a competitive league match under their belts, most English teams will have a better of idea where they stand with regard to the season ahead, with Arsenal the subject of much tittering in the wake of their home defeat at the hands of West Ham after All That Talk.
  • (13) Pretentious in the best sense of the word, Bush in the early 80s became one of those artists, such as the Associates or Japan, who caused Radio 1 daytime DJs to titter nervously, or be openly derisive.
  • (14) At this point in our conversation Portman, 26 now but still with the proportions and doll-like features of a child, titters - there's no other word for it - nervously.
  • (15) Significant differences in end point titter were observed both within and between species.
  • (16) So forget Shagga, titter ye not and consider the (serious face) … Geopolitical context Remember that episode of Borgen where they spent an hour that you'll never get back on the power plays over the election of Denmark's next EU commissioner?
  • (17) Let the camp tittering cease while its spiritual significance is finally acknowledged.
  • (18) A real human voice – the conductor, presumably – raises a significant titter in the carriage when reminding us of this, adding “assuming they arrive on time”.
  • (19) "A mountain has been made out of a molehill," said Dave Bassett, oblivious to the tittering around him.
  • (20) Titter in the audience as he speaks of the controversy the award has generated.

Twitter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
  • (v. i.) To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.
  • (v. i.) To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
  • (v. i.) To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  • (v. t.) To utter with a twitter.
  • (n.) The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
  • (n.) A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
  • (n.) A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Raphael Honigstein Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bayern Munich’s Douglas Costa.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
  • (3) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
  • (4) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (5) September 11 conspiracies Facebook Twitter Pinterest September 11 conspiracy theories.
  • (6) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (7) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (8) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
  • (10) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
  • (11) There is no deal done regarding Paul Pogba, lots of bla bla bla,” the Dutchman wrote on Twitter .
  • (12) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (13) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (14) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
  • (15) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
  • (17) There’s no difference between us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hauwa Modu’s parents were killed by Boko Haram.
  • (18) So we’ve just stopped communicating now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Damaged buildings in Kommunar.
  • (19) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronald Reagan meeting with Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office on 18 January 1983.