Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The song or cry of a bird.
- n. An imitation of the song or cry of a bird.
- n. A small device for producing this sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for imitating the cry of birds in order to attract or decoy them. It is generally a short metal pipe, having a circular plate at each end pierced with a small hole.
Wiktionary
- n. The characteristic cry of a bird
- n. An imitation of this cry
- n. A device used to imitate this cry
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.
- n. An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a device for imitating a birdcall
- n. the characteristic sound produced by a bird
Etymologies
- bird + call (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I initially downloaded a free birdcall app, but it included only about 20 species.”
“That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon.”
The Washington Post: Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy
“All around was the sound of dripping water, interrupted by the occasional clear birdcall.”
“He raises his arms to shield himself, the birdcall surrounding him like manic laughter.”
“(Soundbite of birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: Steeple Jason is two-peaks rising out of the South Atlantic and are home to the largest breeding colony of black proud albatrosses in the world.”
“(Soundbite of a birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: And this sound comes from a bird survey I worked on in the Falkland Islands - specifically, from a remote island called Steeple Jason.”
““Give the workingman the right to employment as long as he has health,” he said, “assure him of care when heis sick and maintenance when he is old, and the socialists will sound their birdcall in vain.””
“The city was the same, but he was a new man seeing it: The ancient stonework; the vines that rose on the walls and were pulled back every year only to crawl up again; the mixture of languages from all across the world that came to the seafront; the songs of the beggars and cries of birdcall.”
“The nice thing about this book is that everybody is able to communicate with one another by coming up with a different onomatopoeia-ish word for the same birdcall.”
“At first, I had thought it a distant birdcall from the garden, but now I realized that the soft trilling matched the cadence of breath.”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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A fortiori
Latin; from a stronger even more certain for an even stronger reason
desquamation, certissima, bien pensant, sinestesia, ausgezeichnet, birdcall, frontiersman, wandering, jotunheim, caravanserai, lusus naturae
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