What's the difference between blowgun and quiver?

Blowgun


Definition:

  • (n.) A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
  • (2) A radiograph showing a pin head down in the trachea or bronchus, coughing (especially with hemoptysis) in excess of that expected from just an aspirated pin, and a child hesitant to divulge the full history suggest blowgun dart aspiration.
  • (3) Animals were anesthetized by blowgun under similar circumstances that allow for determination of basal cortisol concentrations.
  • (4) In Ecuador, the Colorado Indians used N. chiguila, while the Coaiquer Indians still derive a poison from the latex of N. naga and the Cayapá Indians occasionally make use of a blowgun poison, hambi, which probably also comes from a Naucleopsis species.
  • (5) We report on two young patients with unusual airway foreign bodies: blowgun darts.

Quiver


Definition:

  • (a.) Nimble; active.
  • (v. i.) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  • (n.) The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
  • (n.) A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.
  • (2) Moreover, neurological symptoms taken as characteristic for progressive paralysis such as the Argyll-Robertson phenomenon or the "mimic quivering" are more the exception than the rule.
  • (3) Fiscal policy was the first arrow to be removed from Abe's quiver.
  • (4) A br-r-r sound, with a main frequency of 200 Hz and a chewing sound with a main frequency of 6,000-10,000 Hz are produced during threatening; the former sound can also be heard during quivering.
  • (5) Even in my quivering state, I knew someone was again trying to be decent."
  • (6) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
  • (7) I’m always amazed at how many students show up each year in the classrooms of the London School of Economics, where I teach, quivering with excitement about microfinance and other “bottom-of-the-pyramid” development strategies.
  • (8) The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles".
  • (9) In a statement issued on Tuesday he said: "Almost two months later, clearly she was still traumatised – you could hear it in her quivering voice and see it in her eyes.
  • (10) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
  • (11) It was then discovered that if the percussor was pressed firmly enough against the chest, this maximum intrathoracic pressure could be indicated by quivering of the voice.
  • (12) The old guy's face turned pale – it was smeared with blood, his mouth was quivering.
  • (13) a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames."
  • (14) To distinguish them from the somewhat similar lid-twitch phenomenon, they are called quiver movements.
  • (15) I had to become a quivering wreck before social services would offer me any sort of respite,” Dawn says.
  • (16) barks saturnine sheriff "Duke" Perkins, his smalltown beard quivering with indignation.
  • (17) I quiver, shudder and celebrate at the thought of how he'll progress over the next few hours.
  • (18) Neither are, “The brakes aren’t great,” nor: “If at any point you feel scared, just pick up your bike and run.” And yet I found myself in Lycra, looking out over the fields of Essex to Canary Wharf on the horizon, legs quivering, while Ben Spurrier of Vicious Velo attached my pedals to a Condor cyclocross bike.
  • (19) It was a nice home but I immediately started to quiver, and to cry."
  • (20) As most establishment media figures do when quivering in the presence of national security state officials, the supremely sycophantic TV host Bob Schieffer treated Hayden like a visiting dignitary in his living room and avoided a single hard question.

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