chirp
/t͡ʃɜːp/US/t͡ʃɚp/
chirp noun: a short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
Noun
chirp (plural chirps)
- A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
- A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse; the quality of having a such a variation in frequency.
- The long fiber lengths required to linearize the chirp can then be used […]1985, D. Strickland, & G. Moreau, “Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses”, in Optics Communications, volume 56, number 3, pages 219-221
Verb
chirp (third-person singular simple present chirps, present participle chirping, simple past and past participle chirped)
- To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.
- "Well, I suppose you didn't come out of the egg either before you could chirp," said the woman who was on the egg.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 95
- To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
- To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.
- To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
- To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth; to bicker or argue.
- To inform on someone; snitch.
chirp meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
chirp in Hindi
- chirp, squawk; the sound a bird makes
- चीं cī̃
chirp in Tamil
- birds
- கீச்சு kīccu
chirp in Urdu
- چہچہانا
chirp in Malayalam
- ചിലപ്പ്, പക്ഷിശബ്ധം
More languagesFewer languages
- chirp in Tagalog
- siyap, sumiyap
- chirp in Arabic
- تَغْرِيدَة taḡrīda, تَغْرِيد taḡrīd, غَرَّدَ ḡarrada
- chirp in Indonesian
- ciak
- chirp in Persian
- چاویدن čâvidan
Examples of chirp in a sentence
- The liquid chirps heard in the short song of an Omao.
- The tiny bird chirped again and shot away, Rossamünd losing sight of it in the thick foliage.
- Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.
Forms of chirp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chirps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chirps |
| present participle | chirping |
| past participle | chirped |
| past | chirped |
Origin of chirp
From Middle English *chirpen (attested only in the derivative Middle English chirpinge, cyrpynge, chyrypynge (“chirping”). Compare Middle English chirken and chirmen. More at chirk, chirm. Compare also Middle English chirten (“to smack, chirrup”). Compare German zirpen and Dutch tjirpen.
Words formed from chirp
Words that rhyme with chirp
Questions about chirp
- What does chirp mean?
- Chirp means a short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
- What is chirp in Hindi?
- Chirp in Hindi is चीं (cī̃). See Chirp meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chirp?
- Chirp can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce chirp?
- Chirp is pronounced /t͡ʃɜːp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chirp?
- The plural of chirp is chirps.
Words near chirp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chirp (page history and authors); चीं (Hindi) (page history and authors); chirp (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chirp (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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