(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.
Tremor
Definition:
(v.) A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(2) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(3) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.
(4) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
(5) Several images of cerebral blood flow were recorded during inhalation of carbon-15-labelled carbon dioxide by positron emission tomography in four patients with essential tremor and four normal controls.
(7) This contrasting pattern may be secondary to a reduction in the intensity of mean muscular tremor in the clonidine group.
(8) Tremors induced by chemical agents (nicotine, zinc and tremorine) were markedly inhibited by HA-966.
(9) Patients manifesting tardive dyskinesia tended to have fewer parkinsonian symptoms than those without the disorder, especially when tremors and akathisia were excluded from consideration.
(10) A dose-dependent increase in tremor was observed for each of the doses of fenoterol.
(11) In PD, affected individuals show slowed movements, tremor, and rigidity.
(12) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
(13) A 30 days therapeutical trial with trazodone has been performed in 47 patients suffering from different types of tremor.
(14) No subject reported side effects of oxitropium, as compared to three subjects reporting nausea, vomiting and tremors after theophylline.
(15) Acetylcholine (0.1-10 mug) produced a dose-dependent potentiation of oxotremorine tremor in contrast to the multiphasic effect it had on the accompanying hypothermia.
(16) He was admitted to the Hitachi General Hospital because of finger tremor, restlessness and urinary incontinence.
(17) Toxicity included an increase in body weight, cushingoid effects, muscle cramps, and tremors in both groups.
(18) The authors present ten cases of essential tremor, studied before and after administration of clonidine with clinical tests and electrophysiological recordings.
(19) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
(20) A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with tremor and somnolence, followed soon by coma.