Quake vs Flutter - What's the difference?
quake | flutter |
A trembling]] or [[shake, shaking.
An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
(lb) To tremble or shake.
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*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
To cause to tremble or shake.
:(Shakespeare)
(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.
As nouns the difference between quake and flutter
is that quake is a trembling]] or [[shake|shaking while flutter is the act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.As verbs the difference between quake and flutter
is that quake is (lb) to tremble or shake while flutter is (lb) to flap or wave quickly but irregularly.quake
English
Noun
(en noun)- We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by .
- California is plagued by quakes ; there are a few minor ones almost every month .
Verb
Derived terms
* Quaker ----flutter
English
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?