Quiver vs B - What's the difference?
quiver | b |
(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:
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 39:
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
(obsolete)
Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
(mathematics) A multidigraph.
(archaic) Nimble, active.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II , Act III, Scene II, line 281:
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:
* Addison
The second letter of the .
Image:Latin B.png, Capital and lowercase versions of B , in normal and italic type
File:Fraktur letter B.png, Uppercase and lowercase B in Fraktur
File:UncialB-01.png, uncial approximate form of Greek upper case beta that was the source for both common variants of b B in uncial script
voiced bilabial plosive
(label) beauty quark, bottom quark
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As a noun quiver
is (weaponry) a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.As an adjective quiver
is (archaic) nimble, active.As a verb quiver
is to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.As a letter b is
the second letter of the.As a symbol b is
a blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type a antigen in their blood they can receive blood from type b or type o, but cannot receive blood from ab or a.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)- Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- Arrows were carried in quiver , called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
- He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) , from (etyl) *cwiferAdjective
(en adjective)- 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)- 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.
- And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.