Wavers vs Walers - What's the difference?
wavers | walers |
(waver)
To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
* Ld. Berners
* Sir Walter Scott
To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
* 1903 , Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date
* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, "
To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
(UK, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
As nouns the difference between wavers and walers
is that wavers is plural of lang=en while walers is plural of waler.As a verb wavers
is third-person singular of waver.wavers
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(head)waver
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Verb
(en verb)- Flowers wavered in the breeze.
- With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
- Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.
- His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
- ...and that when a man was in the wrong his courage wavered , and his nerves became unsteady, and so he couldn't fight to advantage and was easily overcome.
Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Although they believe they can overhaul their 2-0 deficit, they cannot afford to be as lethargic as this at Camp Nou, and the time is surely approaching when Manuel Pellegrini's faith in MartÃn Demichelis wavers .
Noun
(en noun)- I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
- The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers .
- Johnny is such a little waver ; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
- (Halliwell)