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Falter vs Vibrate - What's the difference?

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Falter is a related term of vibrate.


As nouns the difference between falter and vibrate

is that falter is butterfly while vibrate is the setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.

As a verb vibrate is

to move with small movements rapidly to and fro.

falter

English

Noun

(-)
  • unsteadiness.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To waver or be unsteady.
  • * Wiseman
  • He found his legs falter .
  • (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  • * Byron
  • And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
  • * Milton
  • With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
  • To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
  • * I. Taylor
  • Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
  • To stumble.
  • (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
  • *
  • And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
  • To hesitate in purpose or action.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
  • To cleanse or sift, as barley.
  • (Halliwell)

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    vibrate

    English

    Verb

  • To move with small movements rapidly to and fro.
  • To resonate.
  • Her mind vibrates with excitement.
  • To brandish; to swing to and fro.
  • to vibrate a sword or a staff
  • To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
  • a pendulum vibrating seconds
  • To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
  • * Holder
  • Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may impress a swift, tremulous motion.
  • * Tennyson
  • Star to star vibrates light.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
  • Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.

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