What's the difference between quiver and tremble?

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.

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.