different between titer vs giggle

English

Alternative forms

• titre (mainly UK)

Etymology

From French titre.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?ta?.t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: ti?ter

Noun

titer (plural titers)

1. (analytical chemistry) The concentration of a substance as determined by titration.

Related terms

• titrant
• titratable
• titrated
• titration
• titrator

Translations

Verb

titer (third-person singular simple present titers, present participle titering, simple past and past participle titered)

1. To measure a concentration, especially by means of titration

Synonyms

• titrate

Translations

Anagrams

• tetri, titre, trite

Korak

Noun

titer

1. tame, domesticated chicken

Coordinate terms

• milo (“wild chicken”)

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980)

English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a frequentative based on dialectal English gig (“to creak”), from Middle English gigen (“to make a creaking sound”) +? -le. Compare Middle English gigge, gige (“a squeaking sound; a creak”), Dutch giechelen, German kichern.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

giggle (third-person singular simple present giggles, present participle giggling, simple past and past participle giggled)

1. To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.

   The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

Synonyms

• (laugh in a silly way): titter
• See also Thesaurus:laugh

Derived terms

• giggly

Translations

Noun

giggle (plural giggles)

1. A high-pitched, silly laugh.
2. (informal) Fun; an amusing episode.

   We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.

   The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.

Synonyms

• (laugh): titter
• (amusement): amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughs

Translations