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Noun chatter has 3 senses
- yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle - noisy talk
--1 is a kind of talk, talking
--1 has particulars: prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music
- chatter, chattering - the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
--2 is a kind of noise
- chatter, chattering - the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
--3 is a kind of noise
Verb chatter has 5 senses
- chatter, click - click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth"
--1 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- chatter - cut unevenly with a chattering tool
--2 is one way to cut
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
--3 is one way to converse, discourse
Sample sentences:
Sam and Sue chatter
Sam wants to chatter with Sue
- chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
--4 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue chatter
- chatter - make noise as if chattering away; "The magpies were chattering in the trees"
--5 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentences:
The birds chatter in the woods
The woods chatter with many kinds of birds
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