Twitter

Quick meaning: Twitter is a noun meaning (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.

Meaning

(uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
2. (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
3. (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
4. (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
5. (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
6. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
7. (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.

Example Sentences

I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.

Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, / The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,

Oh, the young handsom wenches, how they twitter'd, / When they but saw me shake my ware, and sing too!

Word Forms

• twitters
• twittering
• twittered

Synonyms for twitter

Depending on context, synonyms include tweet, chirrup, chitter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chirrup, chitter, tweet, chirp, chatter, chirruping.

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