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Vibrate vs Fluff - What's the difference?

vibrate | fluff |

As verbs the difference between vibrate and fluff

is that vibrate is to move with small movements rapidly to and fro while fluff is to make something fluffy.

As nouns the difference between vibrate and fluff

is that vibrate is the setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms while fluff is anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.

vibrate

English

Verb

  • To move with small movements rapidly to and fro.
  • To resonate.
  • Her mind vibrates with excitement.
  • To brandish; to swing to and fro.
  • to vibrate a sword or a staff
  • To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
  • a pendulum vibrating seconds
  • To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
  • * Holder
  • Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may impress a swift, tremulous motion.
  • * Tennyson
  • Star to star vibrates light.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
  • Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.

    Anagrams

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    fluff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  • Anything inconsequential or superficial.
  • Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
  • (label) marshmallow creme
  • (label) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
  • (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
  • Synonyms

    * fuzz, puff * (anything inconsequential or superficial) BS, cruft, hype, all talk * (a lapse) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko * (passive in a lesbian relationship) ruffle * See also

    Derived terms

    * fluffy

    See also

    * dust * lint * plumage

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something fluffy.
  • The cat fluffed its tail.
  • To become fluffy.
  • (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines
  • To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.}}
  • (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
  • Derived terms

    * fluffer * fluff up * fluff girl English onomatopoeias ----