Twitter vs Whisper - What's the difference?
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twitter
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
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)
To utter a succession of chirps.
* Gray
(transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
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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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The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
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(usually in plural) A rumor.
(figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).
(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.
* 2002 , Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars (page 218)
* 2004 , Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education (page 179)
To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
* Bentley
To make a low, sibilant sound.
* Thomson
To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
* Bible, Psalms xli. 7
(obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
(obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
* Shakespeare
In intransitive terms the difference between twitter and whisper
is that twitter is to utter a succession of chirps while whisper is to speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.English
Noun
(en noun)- I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.
- Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
Verb
(en verb)- The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed.
- it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me.
Synonyms
* (internet neologism) tweetDerived terms
* atwitterwhisper
English
Noun
(Whispering) (en noun)- "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper , that was no more than audible.
- There are whispers of rebellion all around.
- The soup had just a whisper of basil.
- The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction
- Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.
Derived terms
* stage whisper * whisper campaignVerb
(en verb)- They might buzz and whisper it one to another.
- the hollow, whispering breeze
- All that hate me whisper together against me.
- and whisper one another in the ear
- where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed
- He came to whisper Wolsey.