(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.
Sheaf
Definition:
(n.) A sheave.
(n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
(n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
(v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Buy what you love, there is no guarantee you will make money from it,” warns Sheaf.
(2) They consist of cylinders of cytoplasm (about 550 A in diameter) arranged in sheafs within cisterns of the endoplasmic reticulum.
(3) "Ms Kanelli got up first ... hitting him unprovoked in the face with a sheaf of documents," it said.
(4) Birefringent needlelike crystals in rosette or wheat-sheaf-like arrangements were found in pulmonary cytology specimens from 11 of 65 patients who had either sputum cultures positive for Aspergillus or histologically confirmed pulmonary aspergilloma.
(5) His press officer watches attentively, holding a clipboard and a thick sheaf of documents.
(6) Auction houses have taken enormous strides to make it accessible for everybody.” You can view upcoming sales online and visit the auction house to talk to experts, Sheaf says.
(7) President Ghani is an impressive technocrat with a worked-out sheaf of projects for social and economic renewal.
(8) We conclude that the presence of birefringent needlelike crystals with rosette or wheat-sheaf-like arrangements in pulmonary cytology specimens is a reliable marker for the presence of Aspergillus infection, which may be detected before cultures are positive or a fungus ball is evident on X ray.
(9) Vaz, waving a sheaf of printed emails about cases referred to him by other MPs, revealed that he had texted the home secretary on Saturday to resolve a problem facing one of his constituents.
(10) Since 2009, the attorneys at the Justice Department’s pardon office have received more than 30,000 applications, each a hefty sheaf of facts, claims, counterclaims and technicalities.
(11) She is juggling a sheaf of worries about her children; some pressing, others less immediate but more disturbing to a mother.
(12) All you would need to convert them from homebrew approximations to the actual stuff is a factory, a skilled workforce, some raw materials and a sheaf of legal certifications.
(13) And second, it presents her as a professional woman writer; there are pens on the table, a sheaf of paper.
(14) Just because a coin is old, it doesn’t make it valuable.” ■ Art and antiques Investing in art and antiques might sound daunting, but Colin Sheaf, chairman of Bonhams UK and Asai, says things have changed.
(15) A clearer and less destructive treaty than the text that emerged would be a sheaf of blank paper, which every negotiating party solemnly sits down to sign.
(16) Come on kids ... [Film of the Sex Pistols in action is shown; then back to Grundy] Grundy: I am told that that group [hits his knee with sheaf of papers] have received £40,000 from a record company.
(17) Rather like the run that had the culture secretary state clearly at last year’s Edinburgh TV festival he had no plans to privatise Channel 4, only for a civil servant from his department to be photographed not long after with a sheaf of papers outlining the logistics of embarking on such a move.
(18) The round Mongolian structure has a gaily painted red door and sheafs of herbs hanging from the ceiling.
(19) McConnell cites a sheaf of shocking statistics: 28% of UK children (3.5 million) live in poverty; one in four eats crisps or sweets for breakfast; the same proportion has hot meals only at school; and 100,000 primary pupils a day begin classes without having eaten.
(20) The official photo shows the EU side on the left: two women and one man, each with a hefty sheaf of papers, a pen poised.