(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.
Undulate
Definition:
(a.) Same as Undulated.
(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate.
(v. i.) To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three mechanisms play an important role: true elongation of the length of the nerve in the relaxed state against elastic forces; movement of the nerve trunk in the longitudinal direction; and increase and decrease of the tissue relaxation at the level of the nerve trunk (relaxed course) and the nerve fibers (change in the undulated course).
(2) In irregular undulation 89.1% of the time corresponded to Stage 2.
(3) These two forms could easily be differentiated by examination of the undulating membrane and kinetoplast.
(4) The findings were confirmed by a histopathological analysis showing the development of coagulative necrosis and myocytolysis as well as undulations of heart muscle cells as a sign of cardiogenic shock.
(5) Paroxysmal headache of the migraine type as well as permanent undulating headache (which we call cephalea) can lead to chronification, both often mixes within the chronification.
(6) After treatment with the contraction medium of Hoffmann-Berling, the filaments appear to be undulated.
(7) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(8) The original concept of the blood pump is represented by an asymmetrical type of pump with an asymmetrical diaphragm and undulating motion of the diaphragm allowing optimal washing of the blood chamber.
(9) When blastomers cease cleaving, their surfaces undulate and form blebs.
(10) Foremost among these is a modification of the cell wall from an undulating structure to one which is smooth and has become enlarged.
(11) The distal fibular physis also begins as a transverse structure that becomes undulated and has extensive peripheral lappet formation.
(12) Undulations in the levels of all responses were noted; the "weaker" the antigen the larger the undulations.
(13) Tendon fibers lose their typical undulating appearance and become quite straight.
(14) On the rehabilitation ward of a tertiary care hospital, the patient developed undulating fever to 39.6C, rapidly worsening peripheral vascular disease, and pulmonary emboli.
(15) All human sera, from patients with tuberculosis as well as from control subjects, gave almost identical undulating patterns of reactivity with the decapeptides.
(16) For instance, platelets probably contract, possess a microfilament network, and behave like undulating membrane organelles.
(17) The incidence of the 60-69 year old males dropped in a range of 10%; that of the females with the same age had an undulating course with rising trend.
(18) The characteristic features of laparoscopic appearance--gentle undulation--were observed in 11 out of 13 (85%) patients with PBC.
(19) Tortuous undulating agranular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) was usually closely associated with microperoxisomes.
(20) Conversely, nerve shortening enhanced the undulation.