What's the difference between quiver and shiver?

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.

Shiver


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
  • (n.) A thin slice; a shive.
  • (n.) A variety of blue slate.
  • (n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
  • (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
  • (n.) A spindle.
  • (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
  • (v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
  • (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
  • (v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
  • (n.) The act of shivering or trembling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients in group A had smoother increases in oxygen uptake and core temperatures, greater cardiovascular stability as reflected by the rate-pressure product, and no visible shivering.
  • (2) Patients who had sustained shivering associated with lidocaine epidural anesthesia were given normal saline or butorphanol 1 mg.
  • (3) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
  • (4) In conclusion, these results further differentiate mld from its allele shiverer, which shares with mld a dramatic reduction of MBP and absence of major dense line but, in contrast, presents other important biochemical differences in CNS myelin.
  • (5) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
  • (6) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
  • (7) It has been concluded that there is no non-shivering thermogenesis in the young calf.
  • (8) In addition, there is immunocytochemical evidence for abnormal accumulation of MAG in perikarya of oligodendroglial-like cells, suggesting the possibility of a transport block for myelin proteins in the shiverer mutant.
  • (9) Shivering may be a warning sign of brain stem anaesthesia and demands special care to anticipate life-threatening complications.
  • (10) The higher hypothalamic and spinal cord clamp temperatures were, the lower residual internal temperature fell before shivering occurred and heat production rose.
  • (11) The peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique was used for immunocytochemical localization of carbonic anhydrase in the mouse spinal cord to detect whether this antigen was normally present in myelinated fibers, in oligodendrocytes in both white and gray matter, and in astrocytes, and to determine where the carbonic anhydrase might be localized in the spinal cords of dysmyelinating mutant (shiverer) mice.
  • (12) Both drugs reduce metabolic heat production (about 35% at 9 and 20 degrees C, and about 15% at 35 degrees C) by inhibiting shivering or by reducing activity or both.
  • (13) Eight male subjects were cooled on three occasions in 22 degrees C water and rewarmed once by each of three procedures: spontaneous shivering, inhalation of heated (45 degrees C) and humidified air, and immersion up to the neck in 40 degrees C water.
  • (14) Pharmacological changes in chemoreceptor activity induced transient and opposite changes in ventilation and shivering intensity, confirming their role in the control of thermogenesis.
  • (15) The shiverer mouse mutation has been used as a model in this series of experiments.
  • (16) Muscular shivering activity (integrated EMG) of both species increased below thermoneutrality parallel with increasing oxygen uptake and heart rate.
  • (17) Pulmonary artery and urinary temperature were measured every 15 minutes, and shivering was evaluated electromyographically.
  • (18) These results obtained in wakefulness suggest that the absence of shivering previously shown in cats during PS without atonia cannot simply be the result of an overall increased threshold for heat-gain responses but, rather, are in keeping with the observation that thermoregulation is suppressed in PS.
  • (19) The effectiveness of intravenous meperidine and warm local anesthetic for prevention of postanesthetic shivering was evaluated in urology patients undergoing epidural blockade for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy.
  • (20) Three days after NRM lesion the fall in core temperature evoked by an exposure to 14-15 degrees C was smaller than before lesion, furthermore the body temperature threshold for shivering increased.