Word Finder - chatter

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Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.

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The sound of talking.

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The sound made by a magpie.

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An intermittent noise, as from vibration.

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Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce the chatter.

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In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.

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To talk idly.

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They knitted and chattered the whole time.

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Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.

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He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.

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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

The Frenchman's chatter which had previously amused Pierre now repelled him.

Her teeth were beginning to chatter.

The twins were used to her chatter.

Disturbed, she ignored the chatter between Ashley and Xander as they drove back to his place.

She answered him and continued her chatter.

There was none of his animated chatter, and Dean guessed he was anxious for the game to finish.

Then follows the creation, when the creators said " Earth," and the earth was formed like a cloud or a fog, and the mountains appeared like lobsters from the water, cypress and pine covered the hills and valleys, and their forests were peopled with beasts and birds, but these could not speak the name of their creators, but could only chatter and croak.

Eventually they stopped their chatter and fell silent.

While the rush of air in the topless Jeep hindered communication, they usually managed to chatter away in spite of the noise.

Their suppertime chatter was limited to the logistics of Bird Song and the care and breakfast feeding of its thirteen guests.

There was an unguarded sweetness to her and her nervous chatter.

Eventually they began their chatter.

At the ladies' end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the men's end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests.

The Deans joined the ice climbers and others in the living room for afternoon snacks and chatter just as Edith Shipton descended the stairs.

The weaver birds began their incessant noisy chatter, fighting for the best position to build a new nest.

You write a burst of messages, radio chatter.

He said what a charming old lady her mother was, and the girl suddenly revealed a similar capacity to chatter.

The City Chatter app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and other mobile devices.

Katie watched the world go by as they drove, half-listening to Hannah's chatter.

The boy seemed attentive in spite of his muteness so Dean resumed sweeping up needles with his hand and continued to chatter.

They drove an hour away, Gerry filling the time with engaging chatter.

Sometimes it is a loosely-fitting shutter or windowframe, a hanging drawer-handle, or a lamp-shade which will rattle; the timbers in a roof may creak, or a group of wine-glasses with their rims in contact may chatter.

Dean picked up Gladys's chatter in mid-conversation.

But the detective's enthu­siasm was contagious and Dean was content to not interrupt the friendly officer's nonstop chatter.

More bikers crowded the small luncheonette, amid happy carefree chatter, all but Cynthia Byrne who sat alone at a table near the back.

The barracks was loud with chatter from other new Guardians.

The hall became alive with chatter and laughter, as the dibber turner's efforts were met with good-natured banter.

Whichever alternative you choose, for stimulation, the breeding birds need to hear the chatter of the others.

Many thanks to Jo for driving me up there, putting up with my inane chatter for 4 hrs then driving me home.

Back on board the boat the inane incessant excited chatter that follows a superb dive had to be heard to be believed.

The scenery here tells its own tale - no need for noisy chatter!

I ate my lunch at 1p.m. as usual, somewhat apprehensively, knowing full well what the after dinner chatter would be about.

Days dissolve into weeks, months, old conversations make your teeth chatter to themselves your stomach the only reply for a hundred miles.

One noticeable change from previous visits however is the background chatter of different languages.

I walked in to the staff room to be greeted by smiling faces, relaxed chatter and much laughter.

They also sounded much different than the usual scrub jay chatter.

He stoically directed stringing and knotting from his crow's nest - and withstood the storm of advice and chatter from below.

There were lots of people in for lunch, and the chatter did not quieten down until later.

Enticed by the scent of fragrant spices and raucous chatter, I wander down the hill.

Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening to their chatter.

Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.

And this human feeling dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter.

On Thompson, the high trees were filled with birds, and their chatter sounded like squalls of hail and glass.

Clicking on another chatter's name in the list of current members offers even more options.

For instance, a chat room that hides users' IP addresses can make it harder for someone to figure out the location of another chatter.

Be forewarned, however, that these groups can generate a lot of chatter!

The answer to all this chatter is that it's Pitt's posture.

The tabloid chatter has finally come full circle as Usher files for divorce.

There's nothing like a good celeb scandal to get the chatter going at the water cooler every morning!

Cell Phone Addicts People on their cell phones can drive other customers crazy due to their constant voice and ringtone chatter.