chirp

«chirp» in Mova's school dictionary: to make a short, high sound, like a small bird or a cricket — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (chirp, chirps, chirped, chirping); noun (a chirp, chirps)

meaning for a pupil

1) To chirp means to make a short, high sound, like a small bird or a cricket. tree →

2) A chirp is that sound. tree →

3) To chirp can mean to say something in a bright, cheerful voice. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, birds chirp to call to each other and crickets chirp by rubbing their wings. In stories, chirp describes happy birds in the morning or a cheerful child. Phrases: chirp away, chirping birds, a cheerful chirp.

examples

• The birds chirped in the morning. tree →
• We heard crickets chirping at night. tree →
• The baby bird chirped for food. tree →
• Good morning! she chirped. tree →
• My phone chirps when I get a message. tree →
• Crickets chirp faster when it is warm. tree →
• "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" chirped the bird. tree →

note

Regular verb: chirped. It is an onomatopoeia: the word sounds like the noise. Similar: tweet, cheep. Fun fact: you can roughly guess the temperature by counting cricket chirps.

In the corpora

• Elephants comfort a scared elephant by touching it with their trunks and making soft chirping sounds.
• Tickled rats make very high chirps, too high for us to hear without special equipment, and come back for more.
• Scientists think these chirps are a kind of laughter.
• Tickled rats make very high chirps that people cannot hear without special equipment, and they come back for more tickles.
• A single short chirp every minute or so from a smoke alarm usually means its battery is low.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chirp» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.