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| 释义 | twitter (once / 357 pages) vn To twitter is to make a sound like a bird's trill or chirp. One of the nicest things about spring is the sound of birds as they twitter in the trees. Tweet tweet! When birds twitter, they make a staccato, musical chirping sound. You can call this sound itself a twitter too. Sometimes the word is used to describe a similar sound made by chattering humans. In the fourteenth century, the word was twiteren, developed from an imitation of the sound that twittering birds make. Twitter is also a social media website founded in 2006, on which people post 140-character bursts of information called tweets. Wonder where they got that idea. WORD FAMILYtwitter: twittered, twitterer, twittering, twitters+/twitterer: twitterers USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Pope, writing on Twitter, pegged the air quality index, a measure of the pollution, above 400 around the time of the video. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) It posted photos of its adventures to its Twitter, Facebook and Instagram profiles, and it appeared to be well received. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) So after calling lawyers and the police, he quit Twitter, at least temporarily, until there is some sort of resolution to Cernovich’s attacks. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1v make high-pitched sounds, as of birds Syn|Hyper chitter cheep, chirp, chirrup, peep make high-pitched sounds 2n a series of chirps Syn|Hyper chirrup sound the sudden occurrence of an audible event |
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