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QUIVERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of vibrating
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("quivering" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quivering"):
shudder; tremor (an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A shaky motion
Example:
the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
Synonyms:
palpitation; quiver; quivering; shakiness; shaking; trembling; vibration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("quivering" is a kind of...):
motion (a state of change)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quivering"):
tremolo ((music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones)
tremor (shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease))
Derivation:
quiver (shake with fast, tremulous movements)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb quiver
Context examples:
Sometimes, by the quivering of the water, he appeared to move a little, as if he were trying to rise.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Patients who are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation/arrhythmias (a quivering or irregular heartbeat) are often advised to avoid caffeine.
(3 Cups Of Coffee Daily Could Improve Heart Function, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils; his mouth was set as steel.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She arose with catlike ease and suddenness to her full height, her eyes flashing, her nostrils quivering like a deer's.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
One Eye half arose in his excitement, his ears up, his tail straight out and quivering behind him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
For a long time I lay and watched these red, quivering blotches of light.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses—soul and senses quivering with keen throes—I put it back and looked in.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In contrast, Earth's surface is quivering constantly from seismic noise created by oceans and weather.
(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)
Maud had finished her task and come aft, where she stood beside me, a small cap perched on her wind-blown hair, her cheeks flushed from exertion, her eyes wide and bright with the excitement, her nostrils quivering to the rush and bite of the fresh salt air.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
