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# twitter

«twitter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a quick, light, chirping sound, as birds do** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (twitter, twitters, twittered, twittering); noun (a twitter)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To twitter is to make a quick, light, chirping sound, as birds do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/#m1)

2) To twitter is to talk fast and in a silly, excited way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, birds chirp and twitter in the trees, or small voices speak quickly and nervously; in everyday life, the sound of birds in the morning

### examples

- The birds twittered in the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/#x1)
- 'Ashes! ashes!' they twittered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/#x2)
- Not even a night bird twittered that night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/#x3)
- The girls twittered about the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twitter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twitter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.