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chirp

SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//t͡ʃɜːp//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//t͡ʃɚp//
  • Australien//t͡ʃɘːp//

A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

  2. 2

    A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse; the quality of having a such a variation in frequency.

    The long fiber lengths required to linearize the chirp can then be used […]

Herkunft

From Middle English *chirpen (attested only in the derivative Middle English chirpinge, cyrpynge, chyrypynge (“chirping”). Compare Middle English chirken and chirmen. More at chirk, chirm. Compare also Middle English chirten (“to smack, chirrup”). Compare German zirpen and Dutch tjirpen.

Verb

  1. 1

    To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.

    "Well, I suppose you didn't come out of the egg either before you could chirp," said the woman who was on the egg.

  2. 2

    To speak in a high-pitched staccato.

  3. 3

    To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.

  4. 4

    veraltetTo cheer up; to make (someone) happier.

  5. 5

    To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth; to bicker or argue.

  6. 6

    veraltetTo inform on someone; snitch.

Formen

Plural
chirps
Präteritum
chirped
Partizip II
chirped
Partizip I
chirping
3. Person Singular
chirps
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