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babble

/bab-uhl/US // ˈbæb əl //UK // (ˈbæbəl) //

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bab·bled, bab·bling.

    • : to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
    • : to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle.
    • : to make a continuous, murmuring sound.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bab·bled, bab·bling.

    • : to utter in an incoherent, foolish, or meaningless fashion.
    • : to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly: to babble a secret.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : inarticulate or imperfect speech.
    • : foolish, meaningless, or incoherent speech; prattle.
    • : a murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
    • : babbling.
    • : Telecommunications. a confused mixture of extraneous sounds in a circuit, resulting from cross talk from other channels.Compare cross talk.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtalk trivially, often incessantly
Forms: babbling

Examples

  • The researchers then analyzed the baby bat songs to see if they met eight universal characteristics of human babbles including early onset, repetition, rhythmicity, universality, and occurrence in non-social settings.

  • The gorilla dolls have electronics inside for realistic baby babble.

  • The anti-gun contingent stands before an Everest of obstacles, a wall of patriotic babble about Second Amendment privileges.

  • In fact, I described them this way myself when I wrote about infant memory two years ago for Babble.

  • Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, and Babble.

  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Babble, among other publications.

  • Baby Kirst had fulfilled his destiny and would babble his way through the forests no more.

  • But after that momentary and inexplicable experience, the babble of thought went on as before.

  • As they went down into the valley of the Thyme, the babble of the stream rose into the air like a perennial laughter.

  • He does not say cryptic things or babble trivialities in the name of the mighty Dead—the mighty Damned or the mighty Blest.

  • All was silence, except somewhere, secluded and unseen, the splash and babble of falling water.