chatter
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
noisy talk
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Sense 2 verb
click repeatedly or uncontrollably
Chattering teeth
Types & categories
- sound hypernym
Sense 3 noun
the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
Types & categories
- noise hypernym
Related & opposite
- chatter derivation
Sense 4 verb
cut unevenly with a chattering tool
Types & categories
- cut hypernym
Related & opposite
- chattering derivation
Sense 5 noun
the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
Types & categories
- noise hypernym
Related & opposite
- chatter derivation
Sense 6 verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
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Sense 7 verb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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Sense 8 verb
make noise as if chattering away
The magpies were chattering in the trees
Types & categories
- mouth hypernym
Related & opposite
- chattering derivation
- chatterer derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | piffle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | yack |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | chat |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackle |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | talk |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatter |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | chattering |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | cut |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatter |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | chat |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | chitchat |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | yak |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatterer |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | visitor |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | converse |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | jawbone |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | balderdash |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | empty words |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | jabber |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | humbug |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | chitchat |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | yak |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | prate |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatterer |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | squealer |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | prattler |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | twaddler |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | mouth |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | blather |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | chattering |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | chatterer |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | mouth |