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How to pronounce chirp in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cheep, chirrup, peep
Type of utter, emit, let loose, let out
Has types chitter, twitter


the birds were chirping in the bushes.
Type Words
Synonyms tweedle
Type of sing
Type Words
Type of sound
Has types tweet
Derivation chirpy

Examples of chirp

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It is interesting though that the birds are starting to chirp around the league.
From the washingtontimes.com
I opened the car door and heard some crickets starting to chirp in the distance.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Chirp is being produced by Carsonified, the group behind the popular FOWA events.
From the techcrunch.com
Pollyannas among us will chirp that challenging times are really opportunities.
From the charlotteobserver.com
All spectra were corrected for the spectral chirp of the white-light probe pulses.
From the nature.com
The G-Shock can help you find a phone lost in your sofa by making it chirp loudly.
From the pogue.blogs.nytimes.com
Never mind the gray uniforms, the rattling keys, the chirp of a guard's radio.
From the stltoday.com
I couldn't see it amid the tangle of tree branches, but it's chirp was clear.
From the thenewstribune.com
We can still hear the chirp of the sub-bottom profiler, a few times a minute.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
More examples
  • Peep: make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
  • A sharp sound made by small birds or insects
  • Tweedle: sing in modulation
  • A chirp is a signal in which the frequency increases ('up-chirp') or decreases ('down-chirp') with time. In some sources, the term chirp is used interchangeably with sweep signal. It is commonly used in sonar and radar, but has other applications, such as in spread spectrum communications. ...
  • Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, (relatively complex) songs are distinguished by function from (relatively simple) calls.
  • Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a mobile telecommunications technology, developed by Motorola, which provides its users the benefits of a trunked radio and a cellular telephone. ...
  • Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts. This behavior is mostly associated with insects, but other animals are known to do this as well, such as a number of species of fishes, snakes and spiders. ...
  • A chirp is scratch, a term used by turntablists. It involves the use of record hand movement and the cross-fader.
  • A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect; to make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to speak in a high-pitched staccato