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twitter

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140- character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twitter \Twit"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twittered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Twittering .] [OE. twiteren; of imitative origin; cf. G. zwitschern, OHG. zwizzir?n, D. kwetteren, Sw. qwitra, Dan. quiddre. Cf. Titter .] To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., twiteren , in reference to birds, of imitative origin (compare Old High German zwizziron , German zwitschern , Danish kvidre , Old Swedish kvitra ). The noun meaning "condition of tremulous excitement" is attested from 1670s. The microblogging ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a series of chirps [syn: chirrup ] v. make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: chitter ]

Usage examples of twitter.

A little over a week later, they reached a much bigger canyon, a wide, rugged gorge through whose bottom ran a quiet river, where pine trees and actus coexisted along the sandy banks and birds twittered in hidden crevices among the rocks.

This ballet was intended to tell a story with the help of masks, twittering machines, mobile automata, and a large illusionist stage.

He twittered a bit and then prescribed pulverized avocado seed and crushed plantain in raw, unfermented maguey juice.

The evening after the funeral, while the Marches sat together talking it over, and making approaches, through its shadow, to the question of their own future, which it involved, they were startled by the twitter of the electric bell at their apartment door.

It was not quite a twittering nor a whir, and it was not unlike a pet shop when the bell tinkles as you step in and a chorus of parakeets and doves starts up in coos and light shrieks.

I have extracted from the seamless web of the life of my chicks, pecking or avoiding beads, shaking their heads or backing away, peeping and twittering, are abstract generalizations that I have drawn from many hundreds of thousands of individual acts by individual birds that I have observed.

How peaceful it was, with the sounds of birds twittering high above, amid the leafy branches of the giant river gums, and the occasional splash of the fish in the river.

Dickens came into his own as he chirped and twittered and then dropped his voice to moan like a walrus, all the while both telling about this Micawber fellow and, apparently, emulating him.

Jed brought Gari and Navar, who were intensely curious, twittering together as they walked down the length of the corridor.

Amsel sorted out the brown, took the big scissors from Solingen and made them twitter experimentally.

The only sounds were their out-of-breath gasps as they pistoned their fists into him and the liquid twitter of a nightjar in the deep stand of pine close by.

This couple so stealthily enlaced, the gleam of their furtively turned eyes, the whispering of their lips, that stony niche below the twittering sparrows, so cunningly sought out--it was the world he had abjured!

They went outdoors again, where the crickets and katydids were chirping in the grass, and the drowsy twitter of birds came from the maples above.

Suddenly a tiny bird twittered, and Felix saw his two truants coming slowly from the gate across the grass, his arm round her shoulders, hers round his waist.

The whispering grew, and was suddenly shot through with myriad tweets and twitters.