(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.
Tremulous
Definition:
(a.) Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
(a.) Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased tremulousness of addicted infants remained through at least the first month of life.
(2) Greater motor unit synchronization with increasing tremor amplitude in EPT may be secondary to a simultaneous increase in muscle spindle afferent activity from the tremulous muscle.
(3) 7. the entity of opsoclonus, body tremulousness, and benign encephalitis has to be differentiated from other syndromes including the sign opsoclonus by recording the EEG and EOG during the course of the disease; this might lead to very useful diagnostic and prognostic information.
(4) Compared to infants of non-ill mothers and infants of ill nonmedicated mothers, infants whose mothers received antipsychotic drugs--particularly those in the phenothiazine family--showed a stable pattern of poor neonatal motor functioning that included tremulousness, hypertonicity, and poor motor maturity.
(5) Patients with cerebellar disease may exhibit tremulous phonation as part of their dysarthria.
(6) Severe withdrawal symptoms such as tremulousness, irritability, increased psychomotor activity, generalized muscle cramps, photophobia, retro-orbital pains and insomnia are described.
(7) Their age at onset ranged from 40 to 74 years and all the five cases had histories of finger injury, including amputation in four cases, followed by insidious onset of tremulous movement at the same site of the trauma during the period between two months and 36 years.
(8) Because of this potential for injury, it is suggested that matings between carriers of tremulous neurological disorders and carriers of mutations that result in lack of down cover be avoided whenever possible.
(9) Additionally, state observations and NBAS-K exams showed significant agreement on individual differences in neurologically based measures, such as startles, tremulousness, and lability of state.
(10) Withdrawal from alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) or other general sedatives leads to progressive hyperactivity that progresses from tremulousness, sleep disturbance, and hallucinosis, to the more serious rum fits and delirium tremens (DTs).
(11) A nonintoxicating oral dose of 1,3-butanediol at 4 grams per kilogram administered after elimination of ethanol from the blood was effective against the tremulous and conbulsive components of the ethanol withdrawal syndrome in all animals for 1 to 5 hours.
(12) Free, free as the sunshine trickling down the morning into these high windows of mine, free as yonder fresh young voices welling up to me from the caverns of brick and mortar below – swelling with song, instinct with life, tremulous treble and darkening bass.” A signature sentence “If it is true that there are an appreciable number of Negro youth in the land capable by character and talent to receive that higher training, the end of which is culture, and if the two-and-a-half thousand who have had something of this training in the past have in the main proved themselves useful to their race and generation, the question then comes, What place in the future development of the South ought the Negro college and college-bred man to occupy?” Three to compare Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952) James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time (1963) Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (1995) • The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Du Bois is published by Yale University Press (£7.99).
(13) Infants with IVH demonstrated more abnormalities in mental status and a cluster of abnormal neurologic findings (persistent ankle clonus, tremulousness, and brisk deep tendon reflexes).
(14) Nine of these patients also experienced a tremulous voice associated with evidence of an essential tremor (ET) elsewhere, including head, trunk and limbs.
(15) The tremulous form of Parkinson's disease generally leads to less motor impairment than the rigid-akinetic form.
(16) This was characterized by confusion, tremulousness, clumsiness, myoclonic jerks, and an inability to walk.
(17) Residual tremulous movements after thalamotomy were examined using an accelerometer and EMG.
(18) Various types of tremor-provoking procedures were performed and the tremulous movements were classified according to the pattern of modificiation by these procedures.
(19) The relapsing course, association with myoclonus or tremulousness, and episodes of stroke-like deterioration are characteristic features.
(20) Twenty-four of forty-four (55%) mice neonates inoculated intracranially with NE-MuLV developed symptoms ranging from tremulousness to hindlimb paralysis within 3-9 months.