Quiver vs Silver - What's the difference?
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(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
(uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
(collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
(collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
(collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
(countable) A shiny gray color.
Made from .
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Made from another white metal.
Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
* 1994 , “Mate matching” in Accent on Living , v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52:
(label) Premium, but inferior to gold.
To acquire a silvery colour.
*(w) (1827-1905)
*:The eastern sky began to silver and shine.
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*:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
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To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.
To make hoary, or white, like silver.
*(John Gay) (1685-1732)
*:His head was silvered o'er with age.
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 proper noun silver is
for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.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.
silver
English
(wikipedia silver)Noun
Synonyms
* (metallic element) (l) * (white-metal coins) (l) * (cutlery and other eating utensils) silverware * (when used as a food colouring)Derived terms
(derived terms) * silver alert * spp. ) * ) * ) * () * silver bell tree / silver-bell tree / (Halesia ) * silver berry / silverberry (Elaeagnus ) * silverbill (Lonchura spp. ) * silver birch (Betula pendula ) * silver book * * silver bromide * silver bullet * silver-bush / silverbush * silver ceiling * silver certificate * silver chloride * silver city * silver cord * silver doctor * silver dollar * silver-eared mesia * silver eye / silver-eye / silvereye * ) * silverfin ) * silverfish * silver fir * silver fizz * silver fluoride * silver foil * silver-fork deformity * silver-fork fracture * silver fox * silver frost * silver gilt * silver goose * silver grass * silver-green * silver gray / silver-gray / silvergray / silver grey / silver-grey * silver hake * silver halide * silver iodate * silver iodide * silver jenny * silver jubilee * silver lace / silver-lace * silver lace vine / silver-lace vine * silver leaf * silver-leafed / silver-leaved * silver-leaved nettle * silver-leaved nightshade * silver-leaved poplar * silver lime * silver linden * silver lining * silver maple * silver medal * silver medalist * silver mine * silver mound * silver nitrate * silver oak * silver paper * silver parachute * silver perch * silver pine * silver plate / silver-plate * silver point * silver poplar * silver protein * silver protein stain * silver quandong * silver quandong tree * silver sage * silver sagebrush * silver salmon * silver-scaled * silver screen * silver skin / silver-skin * silver solder * silver spring * silver spruce * silver standard * silver star * silver star medal * silver state * silver storm * silver thatch * silver thaw * silver-tip * silver tree * silver tree fern * silver trout * silver vine * silver wattle * silver willow * silver-workerAdjective
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- Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.