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🗣️ Noisy talk 📞 To talk a lot 🐒 Repeated noises ❄️ To make quick noises 🔧 To vibrate unevenly
to chatter

to chatter

1 8.4
To cut a surface unevenly because the tool shakes
  • verb
  • /ˈtʃætər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vibrar
  • When using the router at high speed, it tends to chatter if the base is not held steady.

Examples

  • The plane begins to buffet and chatter wildly.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The wrench chattered in his hand.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • When Jaxom slid astride Ruth, he could no longer control his jaw, and his teeth began to chatter.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • So he clamped his teeth together and concentrated on the wine, his fork humming in his hand, his glass chattering against his teeth.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • As the drill bit whirled, it began to chatter against the hard steel, creating an uneven cut.

  • The vibrating saw made the wood chatter as it sliced through, leaving a rough edge.

Compounds

chatter mark
  • Specialized
9.8

A small groove or dent left by repeated movement, like a glacier scraping rock

How Rough

gouge
4 7.0
to chatter
  • Specialized
1 8.4
to scratch
161 1.1
to cut
∞ 1.0
to slice
203 1.0

Surface Forms

chatter infinitive
chattered past
chattered past participle
chattering present participle
chatters third person singular

Etymology

Chatter started as a word that copies fast, repeated sounds and people later used it for tools that shake and make the same noise. So when a tool chatters it vibrates quickly and can cut a surface unevenly.