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Fume vs Quiver - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fume and quiver

is that fume is a gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre while quiver is a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

As verbs the difference between fume and quiver

is that fume is to emit fumes while quiver is to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

As an adjective quiver is

nimble, active.

fume

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. They can flocculate and coalesce. Their particle size is between 0.1 and 1 micron. (A micron is one millionth of a metre)
    • Don't stand around in there breathing the fumes while the adhesive cures.
  • * T. Warton
    • the fumes of new shorn hay
  • A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
  • Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
    • the fumes of passion
    (South)
  • Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • a show of fumes and fancies
  • The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  • * Burton
    • to smother him with fumes and eulogies

    Verb

    (fum)
  • To emit fumes.
  • * Milton
    • where the golden altar fumed
  • * Roscommon
    • Silenus lay, / Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
  • To expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
  • To feel or express great anger.
    • He's still fuming about the argument they had yesterday.
  • * Dryden
    • He frets, he fumes , he stares, he stamps the ground.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Her mother did fret, and her father did fume .
  • To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Keep his brain fuming .
  • To pass off in fumes or vapours.
  • * Cheyne
    • Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

    Usage notes

    * In the sense of strong-smelling or dangerous vapor, the noun is typically plural, as in the example. ----

    quiver

    English

    (wikipedia quiver)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) quiver, from (etyl) quiveir, from (etyl) ).Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Köcher” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005). Replaced early modern (etyl) cocker. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  • * 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing , Act I, Scene I, line 271:
    • Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 39:
    • Arrows were carried in quiver , called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
  • (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
    • He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver .
  • (obsolete)
  • Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
  • (mathematics) A multidigraph.

    • References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) *cwifer

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Nimble, active.
  • * 1598 , William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II , Act III, Scene II, line 281:
    • there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) quiveren, probably from the adjective.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  • * 1593 , William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus , Act II, Scene III, line 12:
    • The birds chaunt melody on every bush, / The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, / The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind / And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.
  • * Addison
    • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.