(v. i.) To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
(v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.
(v. t.) To cause to quake.
(n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(2) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
(3) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(4) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
(5) In Quaking mice, two intrinsic myelin proteins P1 and P2 were drastically decreased, whereas the major myelin protein P0 was unaffected.
(6) In 2015, an avalanche triggered by a 7.8-magnitude quake killed 19 mountaineers at Everest base camp, prompting the cancellation of all trips .
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cows stranded on ‘island’ after New Zealand earthquake – aerial video Key said the quake was the most significant he could remember feeling in Wellington and that his team was clearing up damage in his own offices.
(8) The carmaker's full-year results highlight how, when the quake struck, Toyota had been on its way to a recovery from the recall fiasco, affecting 14m vehicles worldwide, which had battered its reputation for quality.
(9) A magnitude 7.8 quake centred just across the border in Iran killed at least 35 people in Pakistan last April.
(10) In the Haiti quake, there would have been at least 30 cycles.
(11) International aid has begun to reach the capital, Port-au-Prince, four days after the quake destroyed much of the Haiti's infrastructure, from hospitals and prisons to the presidential palace itself.
(12) Some of these mice exhibited a shaking disorder similar to the previously described mutant mice jimpy or quaking.
(13) On the field, the ‘Quakes are also seeing dramatic changes, with a team known for a cynically direct style deciding to change course.
(14) The quake hit at 2.46pm Japan time (5.45am GMT), about 6 miles below sea level and 78 miles off the east coast.
(15) Although the small basic protein is quantitatively decreased in Quaking mice, the ratio of specific activity of small to large basic protein is similar in control and Quaking animals.
(16) Multiple scientific studies have connected similar quakes – in Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and elsewhere – to the underground injection wells used to dispose of wastewater from fracked oil and gas wells.
(17) By midday on Monday, workers had managed to clear landslides from one lane of the main highway connecting Sikkim with the rest of India , and an initial convoy of 75 paramilitaries had started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the quake's epicentre, officials said.
(18) In brain, levels of cholesterol, desmosterol and 7-dehydrodesmosterol are reduced in shiverer and quaking, but not in trembler 60-day-old dysmyelinating mutant mice.
(19) Although Nepal celebrated the rescue of two people pulled alive from the wreckage of buildings in the capital, Kathmandu, on Thursday , the sheer extent of the destruction of the 7.8-magnitude quake is becoming clear.
(20) In the last few years we have seen several swarms of earthquakes in various parts of Texas.” The Irving swarm started late last autumn, and Bellini said the small quakes were likely to continue for some time.
Quaker
Definition:
(n.) One who quakes.
(n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
(n.) The nankeen bird.
(n.) The sooty albatross.
(n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(2) The bar on religious weddings was meant to reassure the faithful, but the Church of England has twisted the weird and novel distinction between religious and secular marriages into an excuse to oppose the whole reform , while it is left to Labour's Yvette Cooper to speak for liberal Jews and Quakers who resent the continuing bar on them offering ceremonial equality.
(3) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(4) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(5) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(6) has only had a couple of performances in Quaker meeting houses, but more are planned in the coming months.
(7) A computerized literature (MEDLINE) search and the Quaker Oats Co identified published and unpublished trials as of March 1991.
(8) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(9) There’s a cosy shared kitchen that serves as an informal gathering spot, as well as a pretty, light-filled library, which is used for reading and weekly Quaker meetings.
(10) Francis used the history of the Quakers who founded Philadelphia to argue that Christians have a special duty to welcome all people of all faiths into a community united by brotherly love.
(11) Quaker Meeting House, Mon to 28 Aug Collisions Dance Company: Intertwine, Edinburgh Intertwine.
(12) His mother was an archaeologist and his father was an English teacher at a private Quaker school, Bootham, in York.
(13) David Lean, on the other hand, was raised a strict Quaker and was always in rebellion against restraint – so he was married six times and, on his own, he might have pushed Laura and Alec a degree or two further than made Coward comfortable.
(14) I think that one of Quaker schools’ strengths is that we do not believe we have a monopoly over the truth and actively encourage our students to question authority.
(15) She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), working with the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the war and with displaced persons in post-war Germany.
(16) They come from a world that is closer to David Cameron's Bullingdon Club than Dench's Quaker roots in Yorkshire.
(17) Between 2014-2016, the Friends Ugandan Safe Transport Fund , a US-based Quakers association, reports that they supported more than 1,800 LGBT individuals to escape Uganda.
(18) There were people from the trade union, the church, from Amnesty and the Quakers, too."
(19) And again I think of the most vivid symbol of this increasingly strange country that I might have ever seen: that shed at the bottom of a garden attached to what used to be a council house, where Quaker Court’s city trader goes about his daily business.
(20) When Carol Steele came to Rhamu, Kenya, in 1983 as a Quaker, Peace, and Service volunteer, there was little or no contact or cooperation between the Government Health Center personnel and the traditional birth attendants of the surrounding villages.