Vibrate vs Agitate - What's the difference?
vibrate | agitate |
To move with small movements rapidly to and fro.
To resonate.
To brandish; to swing to and fro.
To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
* Holder
* Tennyson
The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(rare) To move or actuate.
:(Thomson)
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
:(Boyle)
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
As verbs the difference between vibrate and agitate
is that vibrate is to move with small movements rapidly to and fro while agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.As a noun vibrate
is the setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.vibrate
English
Verb
- Her mind vibrates with excitement.
- to vibrate a sword or a staff
- a pendulum vibrating seconds
- Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may impress a swift, tremulous motion.
- Star to star vibrates light.
Noun
(-)- Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.
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* ----agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.