Tra từ chatter - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
idle chatter/talk/gossip etc
sb's teeth chatter (=hit together quickly because someone is cold or afraid)
▪ My teeth began to chatter, and I regretted leaving my jacket behind.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
away
▪ A teleprinter was chattering away in the corner.
▪ Janir rode in his carrier on our way home, chattering away in a language of his own invention.
▪ The girls began to chatter away.
▪ Miguel could hear Firebug chattering away.
▪ Oshkosh reverberated with the sound of 18 Wright Cyclone radial engines chattering away.
▪ Machinery was switched on and chattering away to itself.
▪ Small, informal groups of people are likely to chatter away nineteen-to-the-dozen.
▪ All sitting, chattering away like starlings.
on
▪ They chattered on among themselves, oblivious to the world at large, lovingly cared for in this cozy place.
▪ Charity let Mandy chatter on and on, offering no comment, her feelings frozen somewhere deep within her.
▪ I've been chattering on far too long.
NOUN
tooth
▪ Can't you hear her teeth chattering in the night?
▪ She shivered and her teeth chattered.
▪ My teeth are chattering like mad.
▪ My teeth were chattering, and the juice from the pear was dripping over my red wool mittens.
▪ My teeth were still chattering when the phone rang.
▪ His teeth chattered as he stood in front of the table.
▪ Doug's teeth begin to chatter.
▪ Wyatt was there, too, and Cyril as well, their teeth chattering in shock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I could hear the boys chattering away in the other room.
▪ Michele sat there chattering about her minor ailments to anyone who would listen.
▪ The tiny gray-haired woman chattered continuously as she demonstrated how to make a tortilla.
▪ They poured out of the school chattering with their friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few minutes later Dexter watched the printer chatter out around two and a half thousand names and addresses.
▪ A teleprinter was chattering away in the corner.
▪ Its automatic weapons chatter nightly, and mortars crump in reply.
▪ Mitchell had forgotten she chattered a lot, this inflated gaiety, whenever she was hyper or high.
▪ People chattering, doors opening and closing, loud male greetings, the level of noise rising.
▪ The radio suddenly chatters into life; the phone rings ....
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
constant
▪ There was a constant hum of chatter, and the occasional laugh.
▪ These hot spots manifest them-selves in the nearly constant internal chatter that follows us throughout the day.
▪ Jane's constant chatter was beginning to annoy him.
▪ Cook drove clumsily, keeping up a constant stream of chatter.
▪ Arnold talks to the crowd, but he doesn't have Trevino's constant chatter.
idle
▪ And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter.
▪ Believe me, this is not idle chatter.
▪ As a family the Hendrys didn't hold with interrupting the serious business of eating with idle chatter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I woke up to the chatter of helicopters flying overhead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Audrey had arrived late, and her twittering, terrified, inept chatter was the most touching touch of all.
▪ His job as a government lobbyist for the Federal Communications Commission depends on nonstop chatter.
▪ I think many users are starting to get very tired of all the spamming and useless chatter that is happening on Usenet.
▪ Jane's constant chatter was beginning to annoy him.
▪ Now, off with your clothes and no more chatter.
▪ The sound came back and I heard the chatter on the radio.
▪ Yet I can not share in the triumphalist chatter of the past three days, so reminiscent of 1987.

chatter

I. chat‧ter¹ /ˈtʃætə $ -ər/ verb [INTRANSITIVE]
[date : 1200-1300; Origin : From the sound]
1. (also chatter away/on) to talk quickly in a friendly way without stopping, especially about things that are not serious or important:
　 ▪ She chattered away happily until she noticed I wasn’t listening.
　 ▪ She chattered excitedly like a child.
chatter about
　 ▪ We were chattering about the events of last night.

2. if birds or monkeys chatter, they make short high sounds

3. if your teeth are chattering, you are so cold or frightened that your teeth are knocking together

4. the chattering classes
British English educated middle-class people who like to discuss and have opinions about recent events and situations in society

—chatterer noun [COUNTABLE]

II. chatter² noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
1. informal talk, especially about things that are not serious or important
chatter of
　 ▪ the excited chatter of the audience
　 ▪ Jane’s constant chatter was annoying him.
　 ▪ gossip and idle chatter
　 ▪ She was full of chatter about her new friends.

2. a series of short high sounds made by some birds or monkeys
chatter of
　 ▪ the chatter of birds

3. a hard quick repeated sound made by your teeth knocking together or by machines
chatter of
　 ▪ the chatter of the printer