chatter
IPA: tʃˈætɝ
noun
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- The sound of talking.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
- One who chats.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
verb
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
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Examples of "chatter" in Sentences
- Users of Chatter collaborate in context.
- Look at the default rates, not the chatter.
- This does not depend on the age of the chatters.
- To allow the chattering classes to keep chattering
- Your paragraphs of chatter are immaterial to the discussion.
- The constant background chatter of the original game is gone.
- Of course, this was the subject of a lot of chatter at the time.
- Both appreciated the sound of baseball chatter, on the field and off.
- Its flight is swift and direct, and the call is a raucous chattering.
- In the fourth Hellraiser movie, the similar Chatter Beast was introduced.