Какво означава purr на английски?

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purr Значение & определение

0 to make a quiet, continuous, soft sound:
- The cat purred as I stroked its fur.
- We could hear the sound of a lawnmower purring in the back garden.
- A black limousine purred up (= drove up making a quiet, continuous, soft sound) outside the hotel.
- [ + speech ] "I love it when you stroke my back," she purred (= said with pleasure).
1 a purring noise:
- I stroked the cat and it gave a low purr.
- I heard the gentle purr of an engine outside the house.
2 (of a cat) to make a soft, low, continuous sound, or (of a machine) to make a similar sound:
- After a tune-up, the car just purred like new.

If we stroke the cat one way, it purrs, and if we stroke it the other way it growls.
Cougars sometimes voice low-pitched hisses, growls, and purrs, as well as chirps and whistles, many of which are comparable to those of domestic cats.
Her voice moans, purrs, splutters; she gesticulates with her eyes, almost shouts with her hair.
She doesn't so much steal the movie as borrow it for extended periods and return it with the motor purring.
In a follow-up study of purring in four adult cheetahs, found that egressive phases were longer than ingressive phases in four cheetahs.
When a cat purrs, the signal constitutes direct evidence of the animal's contented state.
Dignified trams are smoothly purring in between them, contrary to the cumbersome wooden carts on two high wheels, drawn by oxen.
Other calls include a loud, screeching alarm call and a soft, purring call uttered to young chicks.