Rattling vs Quivering - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between rattling and quivering

is that rattling is lively, quick (speech, pace) while quivering is shaking, shivering.

As nouns the difference between rattling and quivering

is that rattling is rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another) while quivering is a motion by which something quivers or trembles.

As verbs the difference between rattling and quivering

is that rattling is while quivering is .

rattling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Lively, quick (speech, pace).

(intensifier) good, fine.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}

* (James Joyce)

I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

Noun

(en noun)

rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

(nautical)

Verb

(head)

quivering

English

Adjective

(head)

shaking, shivering

The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate.

* 1853 , , Tom Taylor (editor), The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon ,

You envied me in all my great successes — Jerusalem, Lazarus, Mock Election, pupils, drawings, lectures ; and at all times tried to prove they were not successes, with a pale face and quivering' lip — more pale and more ' quivering than usual.

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

A motion by which something quivers or trembles.

quiverings of the eyelid

* 1837 , '' in ''Twice-Told Tales ,

The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the divine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered.

* 1921 , ,

And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.

* 1954 , ,

There remained only the quiverings —the windows, the steel springs of the bed, the dishes, a chair touching the wall.

There came at last a silence so complete she could hear the ticking of the clock under the bed, and the snoring of Sophronie's children behind the wall of the girls' bedroom.