Twitter vs Whistle - 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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A device designed to be placed in the mouth in order, or driven by steam or otherwise, to make a whistling sound.
An act of whistling.
A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
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Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute ).
* 2005 , Wally Payne, A Minority of One: A Monkey's Tale Continued
The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
* Walton
(ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
* Addison
As verbs the difference between twitter and whistle
is that twitter is (ambitransitive|internet) to post an update to ; to twitter or tweet while whistle is (ambitransitive) to make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth to produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.As a noun whistle is
a device designed to be placed in the mouth in order, or driven by steam or otherwise, to make a whistling sound.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
* atwitterwhistle
English
(wikipedia whistle)Noun
(en noun)- the whistle of the wind in the trees
- We soldiers changed into our No.1 dress uniforms, Sid into his best whistle and we set off for the church.
- Let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles .
Derived terms
* bells and whistles * * it's not the whistle that pulls the train * wet one's whistle * whistle-blower * whistle pig * whistle-stop * whistle walkVerb
(whistl)- Never whistle at a funeral.
- She was whistling a happy tune.
- A bullet whistled past.
- He chanced to miss his dog; we stood still till he had whistled him up.