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Значения термина clitter на английском

Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures.

Синонимы
Examples for "stridulate"
Examples for "stridulate"
1
The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
2
Do co-mimics also stridulate or squeak with the same wave-form?
The Guardian
3
The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
4
The only known mammal to stridulate is the streaked tenrec, a spiky hedgehog-like critter from Madagascar that rubs its quills together.
Wired
5
The Krinpit was staggering closer to them, moaning and stridulating.
Jem
Использование термина clitter на английском
1
A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
The War in the Air
2
I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of cocker claws.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
3
The big curved wings on either side flapped disconcertingly, flapped again' click, clock, click, clock, clitter-clock!
The War in the Air
4
Click, clock, clitter-clock, he was rising!
The War in the Air
5
The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus came soaring through the air.
The War in the Air
6
They came streaming out, pouring over his hands and clittering up his arms.
Finders Keepers
7
He attacked the control boards in wild abandon, working levers and clittering at keys feverishly.
Mech
8
While the operator clittered at the keyboard, Droad called Jarmo and informed him of the situation.
Mech
9
'Tis just off the path in that clitter of stone beside the stile.
The Torch and Other Tales
10
The comm-officer clittered at his keyboard.
Mech
11
The keys clittered, and then another chunk of metal fell out on the board which served as his desk.
Misery
12
And from the way the ice cubes clittered together when he set it back down, I deduced I hadn't been wrong about the palsy.
Revival
13
"Come up," says the 'bus driver, and the horses strain; "Clitter, clatter, cluck, clak," the line of hurrying hansoms overtakes the omnibus going west.
A Modern Utopia
Частые словосочетания
Clitter через время