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Twitter vs Chirrup - What's the difference?

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Twitter is a related term of chirrup.


As verbs the difference between twitter and chirrup

is that twitter is (ambitransitive|internet) to post an update to ; to twitter or tweet while chirrup is to make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

As a noun chirrup is

a series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

twitter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
    • I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
  • Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
  • * 1986 , IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)
    • Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter a succession of chirps.
  • * Gray
    • The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
  • (transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
  • *
    • it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me.
  • *
  • To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
  • To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  • (neologism, Internet) To use the microblogging service .
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    • Synonyms

    * (internet neologism) tweet

    Derived terms

    * atwitter

    chirrup

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks
  • To express by chirping.
    • The crickets chirruped their song.
  • To quicken or animate by chirping.
    • to chirrup a horse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A series of chirps, clicks or clucks
  • * 1841 James Fenimore Cooper - The deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
    • When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!
  • * 1859 Charled Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth
    • And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in ! with a Chirrup , Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus