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  2. Cricket (warning sound) - Wikipedia

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    A cricket is a type of cockpit audio alert onboard commercial aircraft such as those of Airbus. [1] [2] Its sound is intentionally designed to be extremely difficult for pilots to ignore. The "chirp chirp" sound is named after the insect that it imitates.

  3. Chirp - Wikipedia

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    A chirp is a signal in which the frequency increases (up-chirp) or decreases (down-chirp) with time. In some sources, the term chirp is used interchangeably with sweep signal . [ 1 ] It is commonly applied to sonar , radar , and laser systems, and to other applications, such as in spread-spectrum communications (see chirp spread spectrum ).

  4. Nightingale floor - Wikipedia

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    Nightingale floors (鴬張り or 鶯張り, uguisubari) listen ⓘ are floors that make a squeaking sound when walked upon. These floors were used in the hallways of some temples and palaces, the most famous example being Nijō Castle, in Kyoto, Japan.

  5. Stridulation - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes it is the structure bearing the file which resonates to produce the sound, but in other cases it is the structure bearing the scraper, with both variants possible in related groups. [1] Common onomatopoeic words for the sounds produced by stridulation include chirp and chirrup.

  6. If You See a Cardinal, Here's the True, Unexpected ... - AOL

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    Cardinal sightings have a multitude of meanings such as being a sign of hope, wisdom or blessings, or that they are angels with a divine message for you. According to Doolittle, Cardinals are a ...

  7. Stock sound effect - Wikipedia

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    Spider Mastermind alert sound — (titled DSSPISIT within Doom's WAD files, also known as Animal, Creature - Large Animal Death Scream) — stock sound effect of an ear-piercing screeching roar, transcribed as "Woo-roooo!", frequently used in television and video games. Belonging in the same Sound Ideas library as the Sharptooth roar, this ...

  8. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .

  9. Cardinal vowels - Wikipedia

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    Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. They are classified depending on the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth, how far forward or back is the highest point of the tongue, and the position of the lips (rounded or unrounded).