What's the difference between quave and tremble?

Quave


Definition:

  • (n.) See Quaver.
  • (v. i.) To quaver.

Example Sentences:

Tremble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.
  • (v. i.) To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing.
  • (v. i.) To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.
  • (n.) An involuntary shaking or quivering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
  • (2) "To be honest, I dream of the Premier League," replied the Lille forward, setting hearts a-trembling across England.
  • (3) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
  • (4) Simulated gait abnormalities involve weakness of 1 or both legs or ataxia and trembling.
  • (5) Sweating, trembling, inability to concentrate, weakness, hunger and blurred vision were the most frequently reported symptoms.
  • (6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
  • (7) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
  • (8) Therefore, the coat-color remained cream in ee (cream) hamsters showing only trembling.
  • (9) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
  • (10) Panic-related chest pain, dyspnea, trembling, and fear were important factors in the development, pervasiveness, and severity of situational fears and anticipatory anxiety.
  • (11) The force of the blast made the ground tremble in the Chinese border city of Yanji, 130 miles away.
  • (12) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
  • (13) These movements, which were often abnormal, included trembling and asynchronism.
  • (14) Though the route map that Wenger had provided was clear enough, his men held it with trembling hands.
  • (15) When he speaks, his voice trembles: "If Nato hadn't intervened, none of us would be here," he cries.
  • (16) The shiverer mutation consists of a deletion of the 3' end of the myelin basic protein gene which completely prevents production of mature mRNA and protein, and results in severe dysmyelination and a trembling behavior.
  • (17) His agonising efforts to appease his dying father and establish a relationship with his sister, Glory, are so finely grained, so trembling with a sense of life unlived, and without the neat, redemptive ending of the previous novel, that it is a much stronger and more radical piece.
  • (18) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
  • (19) The following clinical signs such as pronounced muscle fasciculation, trembling, grinding teeth, ataxia, lateral recumbency, bloating, regurgitation, hyperesthesia, mydriasis and convulsions were observed.
  • (20) Similarly, the prominent 4- and 8-Hz peaks, found in the smoothed EMG power spectra from trembling muscles, were eliminated if the limb was effectively prevented from trembling.

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