Vibration vs Quivering - What's the difference?
vibration | quivering |
The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
(physics) Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
A single complete vibrating motion.
(slang) An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere; vibes.
shaking, shivering
* 1853 , , Tom Taylor (editor), The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon ,
A motion by which something quivers or trembles.
* 1837 , '' in ''Twice-Told Tales ,
* 1921 , ,
* 1954 , ,
As nouns the difference between vibration and quivering
is that vibration is vibration while quivering is a motion by which something quivers or trembles.As an adjective quivering is
shaking, shivering.As a verb quivering is
.vibration
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* *quivering
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Adjective
(head)- The quivering mass of jello rocked back and forth incessantly but remained on the plate.
- 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)- quiverings of the eyelid
- 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.
- And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.
- 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.
