Flutter vs Agitate - What's the difference?
flutter | agitate |
(lb) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
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*: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.
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(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.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
* Milnes
A state of agitation.
* (Henry James)
An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
(British) A small bet or risky investment.
* 1915 : , Ch. 93
* So with his victory odds currently at 14/1 or 3/1 for the podium, he's still most certainly well worth a flutter ... -
The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(rare) To move or actuate.
:(Thomson)
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
:(Boyle)
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
As verbs the difference between flutter and agitate
is that flutter is (lb) to flap or wave quickly but irregularly while agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.As a noun flutter
is the act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.flutter
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Verb
(en verb)Noun
(wikipedia flutter) (en noun)- the flutter of a fan
- the chirp and flutter of some single bird
- (Alexander Pope)
- 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.
- "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."
Gray Matter: How will Schu do?
Derived terms
* flutter in the dovecote * flutterbyagitate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
