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chatter

(tʃætəʳ)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense chatters, present participle chattering, past tense, past participle chattered
1. verb
If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important.
Everyone's chattering away in different languages. [VERB adverb/preposition]
Erica was friendly and chattered about Andrew's children. [VERB + about]
He listened to chattering maids as they passed by. [VERB-ing]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: prattle, chat, rabbit on [British, informal], babble More Synonyms of chatter
Chatter is also a noun.
...idle chatter.
Lila kept up a steady stream of chatter.
2. verb
If your teeth chatter, they keep knocking together because you are very cold or very nervous.
She was so cold her teeth chattered. [VERB]
3. verb
If objects chatter, they make short repeated sounds.
The telex chattered all day and night with news bulletins. [VERB]
Chatter is also a noun.
...the chatter of radios and the noise of the helicopter overhead.
4. verb
When birds or animals chatter, they make high-pitched noises.
[literary]
Birds were chattering somewhere. [VERB]
Chatter is also a noun.
...almond trees vibrating with the chatter of crickets. [+ of]
More Synonyms of chatter

chatter in British English

(ˈtʃætə)
verb
1. 
to speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; prattle
2. (intransitive)
(of birds, monkeys, etc) to make rapid repetitive high-pitched noises resembling human speech
3. (intransitive)
(of the teeth) to click together rapidly through cold or fear
4. (intransitive)
to make rapid intermittent contact with a component, as in machining, causing irregular cutting
noun
5. 
idle or foolish talk; gossip
6. 
the high-pitched repetitive noise made by a bird, monkey, etc
7. 
the rattling of objects, such as parts of a machine
8.  Also called: chatter mark
the undulating pattern of marks in a machined surface from the vibration of the tool or workpiece
Derived forms
chattery (ˈchattery)
adjective
Word origin
C13: of imitative origin

chatter in American English

(ˈtʃætər)
verb intransitive
1. 
to make short, indistinct sounds in rapid succession
birds and squirrels chatter
2. 
to talk fast, incessantly, and foolishly
3. 
to click together rapidly, as the teeth do when the lower jaw trembles from fright or cold
4. 
to rattle or vibrate
an improperly adjusted tool chatters
verb transitive
5. 
to utter with a chattering sound
noun
6. 
the act or sound of chattering
7. 
rapid, foolish talk
Derived forms
chatterer (ˈchatterer)
noun
Word origin
ME chateren: orig. echoic

chatter in Mechanical Engineering

(tʃætər)
Word forms: (present) chatters, (past) chattered, (perfect) chattered, (progressive) chattering
verb
(Mechanical engineering: Manufacturing and assembly)
If a machine part chatters it makes contact with a workpiece in an intermittent way, often causing damage to the workpiece.
If stainless steel is cut at too low a speed, the tool may chatter, producing a poor surface.
Note whether the drill cuts smoothly and rapidly, or whether it jumps and chatters.
If a machine part chatters it makes contact with a workpiece in an intermittent way, often causing damage tothe workpiece.

Examples of 'chatter' in a sentence
chatter

It was me who looked away and walked out into the cool night air towards the lively noise of chatter and a jazz band.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We chatter about what he might say.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They are too busy for idle chatter.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But the chatter was not about the usual town life.
The Sun (2012)
We could just chatter away endlessly.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is not idle sales chatter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She should fly above the fray of celebrity, gossip and national chatter.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There was no need; she was chattering away.
Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters (1864)
In biblical narratives, there is no idle chatter.
Christianity Today (2000)
He was a great one for idle chatter, and often would say anything that came into his head.
Clerk, Jayana & Siegel, Ruth Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born (1995)
 Everyone began chattering at once.
Marsden, Philip The Crossing-Place (1993)
Through the shadows of this forest land we have driven our motorways, and great automobiles rumble where protesting monkeys chatter and scream.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They often feed in flocks, and when they are disturbed they go chattering away delightfully in a dark cloud across the sky.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He loved the bustle and the chatter about news in London coffee houses and he had a nose for gruesome and sensational details.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I will miss the banter, noise and chatter.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I looked at the bird chattering away, looking at my mother.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I've heard a lot of chatter about this show.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Within 20 minutes, she is chattering away.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We all sit around the table and I listen to the chatter and gossip about what's been going on that week.
The Sun (2014)

In other languages
chatter

British English: chatter VERB
If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important.
Everyone's chattering away in different languages.
  • American English: chatter
  • Brazilian Portuguese: tagarelar
  • Chinese: 喋喋不休地说 >不重要的事
  • European Spanish: charlar
  • French: bavarder
  • German: schwatzen
  • Italian: ciarlare
  • Japanese: ぺちゃくちゃしゃべる
  • Korean: 재잘거리다
  • European Portuguese: tagarelar
  • Latin American Spanish: charlar

Chinese translation of 'chatter'

chatter

(ˈtʃætəʳ)

vi

  1. [person] 喋喋不休 (diédiébùxiū)
  2. (liter) [bird, animal] 唧唧叫 (jījījiào)
  3. [teeth] 打战(戰) (dǎzhàn)

n (u)

  1. [of people] 喋喋不休 (diédiébùxiū)
  2. (liter) [of birds, animals] 唧唧声(聲) (jījīshēng)
(verb) 
Definition
to speak quickly and continuously about unimportant things
Everyone was chattering away in different languages.
Synonyms
prattle
She prattled on until I wanted to scream.
chat
I was just chatting to him the other day.
rabbit on (British, informal)
What are you rabbiting on about?
babble
They all babbled simultaneously.
gab (informal)
natter
The pair would natter on the phone for hours.
tattle
jabber
I left them there jabbering away
blather
He kept on blathering about incompetence.
schmooze (slang)
blether (Scottish)
run off at the mouth (US, slang)
prate
gossip
We gossiped well into the night.
(noun) 
Definition
idle talk or gossip
She kept up a steady stream of chatter the whole time.
Synonyms
prattle
I had had enough of his mindless prattle.
chat
She asked me into her office for a chat.
rabbit (British, informal)
gossip
babble
He couldn't make himself heard above the babble.
twaddle
He was baffled by the intellectual twaddle.
gab (informal)
natter
We must get together some time for a good natter.
tattle
jabber
blather
Anyone knows that this is all blather.
blether (Scottish)
Seegush

Synonyms of 'chatter'

chatter

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