TWITTER


Meaning of TWITTER in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bird chirps/twitters (= makes short high sounds )

Birds chirped to one another from different branches of the tree.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Birds twitter outside the open window as the nuns scrutinise each graph and diligently take notes.

Let's hope it helps Rita see Anthony for the twittering twerp he is.

Near-by, across the river, a lark had begun to twitter and climb.

On the video footage, which was shot by investigators the spring after the nightmare, birds twitter .

The larks went up, twittering in the scented air above the down.

They were very low, twittering all round us, all flying in the same direction, low and happy.

When the electronic ambience washed in, the saxophone and drums twittered anxiously.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Little Billy heard him talking to the robin in a kind of curious twitter .

Usually rather subdued piping or twittering calls, flocks often keeping up a conversational twitter.

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