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Warble vs Wabble - What's the difference?

warble | wabble |

As verbs the difference between warble and wabble

is that warble is to modulate a tone's frequency while wabble is wobble, move to and fro.

As a noun warble

is (military) in naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered or warble can be a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus hypoderma .

warble

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(warbl)
  • To modulate a tone's frequency.
  • To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
  • To cause to quaver or vibrate.
  • * Milton
    • touch the warbled string
  • To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
  • * (rfdate) Gay
    • Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat.
    Synonyms
    * (sense, to modulate a tone's frequency) trill

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.

    • Etymology 2

    From Middle English werble, (at least for the noun) from (etyl) werbel (mole cricket), cognate to Walloon waerbea.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma .

    • Derived terms

    * warble fly

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    wabble

    English

    Verb

    (wabbl)
  • wobble, move to and fro
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Milo Hastings, title=In the Clutch of the War-God, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their planes wabble , the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the air pressure." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort. }}

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