Activity vs Flutter - What's the difference?

Activity is a related term of flutter.

As nouns the difference between activity and flutter

is that activity is the state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities while flutter is the act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.

As a verb flutter is

(lb) to flap or wave quickly but irregularly.

activity

English

(wikipedia activity)

Noun

(activities)

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.

Something done as an action or a movement.

Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities , ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

Use (of internet, playstation, bank account etc.).

Usage notes

* Adjectives often used with "activity": increased, decreased, high, low, volcanic, seismic, eruptive, intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, muscular, cerebral, favorite, recreational, practical, cultural, artistic, literary, musical, political, diplomatic, military, domestic, voluntary, missionary, chemical, optical, productive, reproductive, industrial, commercial, etc.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* rest * passivity

Derived terms

* radioactivity

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

flutter

English

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.

*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered , then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.

(lb) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.

*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

*:Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.

(lb) To cause something to flap.

(lb) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Like an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.

Noun

(wikipedia flutter) (en noun)

The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.

the flutter of a fan

* Milnes

the chirp and flutter of some single bird

A state of agitation.

(Alexander Pope)

* (Henry James)

Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.

An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.

(British) A small bet or risky investment.

* 1915 : , Ch. 93

"Oh, by the way, I heard of a rather good thing today, New Kleinfonteins; it's a gold mine in Rhodesia. If you'd like to have a flutter you might make a bit."

* So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter ... - Gray Matter: How will Schu do?

The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

Derived terms

* flutter in the dovecote * flutterby