Quiver vs Gasp - What's the difference?
quiver | gasp |
(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
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(British, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
* Lloyd
To speak in a breathless manner.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between quiver and gasp
is that quiver is (weaponry) a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun while gasp is sigh, yawn; the act of sighing.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.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.
gasp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
- I'm popping out for a gasp .
Verb
(en verb)- The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
- We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
- She gasps and struggles hard for life.
- The old man gasped his last few words.
- I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
- Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
