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Expensive vs Cheep - What's the difference?

expensive | cheep |

As an adjective expensive

is having a high price or cost.

As a verb cheep is

of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep".

As a noun cheep is

a short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

As an interjection cheep is

the short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

expensive

English

Alternative forms

* expencive (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a high price or cost.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=[…] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
  • (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

    • Synonyms

    * dear * costly * pricey

    Antonyms

    * cheap * inexpensive * low-priced

    Derived terms

    * expensively * expensive drunk

    cheep

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep".
  • *
  • To give expression to in a chirping tone.
  • * Tennyson
    • Cheep and twitter twenty million loves.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
    • English onomatopoeias