Definitions for chatter
ˈtʃæt ərchat·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cacklenoun

   noisy talk

2. chatter, chatteringnoun

   the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

3. chatter, chatteringverb

   the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

4. chatter, clickverb

   click repeatedly or uncontrollably

   "Chattering teeth"

5. chatterverb

   cut unevenly with a chattering tool

6. chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visitverb

   talk socially without exchanging too much information

   "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

7. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabbleverb

   speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

8. chatterverb

   make noise as if chattering away

   "The magpies were chattering in the trees"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chatternoun

   one who chats

2. chatternoun

   a user of chat rooms

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chatternoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Noise like that of a pie or monkey.

   The mimick ape began his chatter,
   How evil tongues his life bespatter. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Idle prate.

2. To CHATTERverb

   Etymology: caqueter, Fr.

   1. To make a noise as a pie, or other unharmonious bird.

   Nightingales seldom sing, the pie still chattereth. Philip Sidney.

   So doth the cuckow, when the mavis sings,
   Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Edmund Spenser, Sonnets.

   There was a crow sat chattering upon the back of a sheep; Well, sirrah, says the sheep, you durst not have done this to a dog. Roger L'Estrange.

   Your birds of knowledge, that in dusky air
   Chatter futurity. John Dryden, OEdipus.

   2. To make a noise by collision of the teeth.

   Stood Theodore surpriz’d in deadly fright,
   With chatt’ring teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.

   Dip but your toes into cold water,
   Their correspondent teeth will chatter. Matthew Prior.

   3. To talk idly or carelesly.

   Suffer no hour to pass away in a lazy idleness, an impertinent chattering, or useless trifles. Isaac Watts, Logick.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. chatter

   Chatter generally refers to informal conversation, light-hearted talk or chatter, often on unimportant matters. It is a continuous, rapid flow of conversation or noises. In the context of machinery, it refers to a series of vibrations caused by irregularities in operation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chatterverb

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

2. Chatterverb

   to talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate

3. Chatterverb

   to make a noise by rapid collisions

4. Chatterverb

   to utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly

5. Chatternoun

   sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle

6. Chatternoun

   noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering

7. Etymology: [Of imitative origin. Cf. Chat, v. i. Chitter.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chatter

   Chatter is a signals intelligence term, referring to the volume of intercepted communications. Intelligence officials, not having better metrics, monitor the volume of communication, to or from suspected parties such as terrorists or spies, to determine whether there is cause for alarm. They refer to the electronic communication as "chatter". Monitoring chatter is an example of traffic analysis, a sub-field of signals intelligence. Intelligence specialists hope to learn significant information by methodically monitoring when and with whom suspects communicate. Even if they cannot decrypt what suspects are saying to one another, a change of traffic may raise alarm, since a large increase may indicate increased preparation for action, while a sudden decrease may indicate the end of planning and the imminence of action. These considerations do not apply when the targets of analysis follow the military practice of maintaining a steady flow of encrypted communications whether they are needed or not. Some events, including the capture of the "Algerian Six", were triggered largely by an increase in "chatter".

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Chatter

   chat′er, v.i. to talk idly or rapidly: to sound as the teeth when one shivers.—ns. Chatt′erbox, one who chatters or talks incessantly; Chatt′erer, one that chatters: an idle talker: a significant popular name applied to the birds of a small family of finch-like perching birds, as the Bohemian wax-wing and the cedar bird of America; Chatt′ering, noise like that made by a magpie, or by the striking together of the teeth: idle talk. [From the sound.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CHATTER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chatter is ranked #148347 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Chatter surname appeared 111 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Chatter.
   
   58.5% or 65 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   18.9% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
   9% or 10 total occurrences were White.
   6.3% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Cut
   • Noise
   • Sound
   • Utter

Anagrams for chatter »

1. ratchet

How to pronounce chatter?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say chatter in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of chatter in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of chatter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of chatter in a Sentence

1. Carol Edwards:

   There’s been a lot of chatter, even in the very beginning of this project, talking about what other diseases they could do. We’ve talked about TB, we’ve talked about flu A and B, possibly for this next flu season, seeing if we can get the dogs to alert on that.

2. John Miller:

   On the looting, that's an intelligence failure, if a couple of hundred people knew to be in a certain place at a certain time for criminal activity and we didn't detect that, that's on me. We've gone back looking for' where was the Facebook page, where was the chatter in the places where we monitor gang's social media' and we still haven't seen it.

3. Josh Shapiro:

   Theres a lot of chatter. Theres a lot of noise. The ballots are valid. Theyre lawful. And theyre being counted in Pennsylvania.

4. Pope Francis:

   This is a serious disease that begins simply when people chatter, and it takes over the person, turning the person as a Satan, and in so many cases people are speaking ill about their own colleagues and brothers and sisters. These people haven't got the courage to speak directly, and they speak about others behind their backs, dear brothers, let us be aware and guard against the terrorism of gossip.

5. Spencer Haywood:

   There was so much chatter about it becoming a Black league, and we Black players didn't help the matter. We weren't refined. It was like, big fur coats, big fur hats. It was like Superfly in the NBA.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=chatter
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chatter
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=chatter
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chatter
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=chatter
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=chatter
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html