Twitter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip.
  • verb-intransitive. To giggle nervously; titter.
  • verb-intransitive. To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement.
  • v. To utter or say with a twitter: twittered a greeting.
  • n. The light chirping sound made by certain birds.
  • n. A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter.
  • n. Agitation or excitement; flutter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
  • v. To utter a succession of bird's chirps.
  • v. (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
  • v. To use the microblogging service Twitter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises.
  • verb-intransitive. To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
  • v. To utter with a twitter.
  • n. The act of twittering; a small, tremulous, intermitted noise, as that made by a swallow.
  • n. A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle.
  • n. A slight trembling or agitation of the nerves.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A gardeners' name for certain plant-deformations caused by insects, notably a curious bunching and twisting of the carnation-plant caused by the work of anthomyiid larvæ. Some forms of twitter are caused by thrips and others by plantlice.
  • To utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird; sing in bird-notes; chirp.
  • To titter; giggle.
  • To quiver; tremble; palpitate; hence, to be in a flutter or fright.
  • To sing or utter in bird-notes; chirp out.
  • To spin unevenly.
  • n. A chirp or series of chirps, as of a bird, especially the swallow.
  • n. A fit of laughter; a titter.
  • n. A tremble; a flutter; a general excitement; a pother: as, to be in (or of) a twitter, or to be in or on the twitters.
  • n. One who twits or reproaches.
  • n. A shred; a fragment: used in the plural.
  • n. The refuse or residuum of the case of the spermwhale, a gummy and thready substance left when the case is squeezed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a series of chirps
  • v. make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
  • Verb Form
    twittered    twittering    twitters   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sound    chirp    chirrup    peep    cheep   
    Form
    atwitter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    upbraider    titter    giggle    chirp    quiver    tweet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ritter    Sitter    aglitter    bitter    chitter    critter    embitter    emitter    fitter    fritter   
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    Same Context
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