(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.
Waver
Definition:
(v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
(v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
(v.) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(2) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(3) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(4) As a result, he wavers between relativism (regarding therapeutic interpretations) and objectivism (regarding scientific knowledge).
(5) Gomez has appeared in 106 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place (a show about magically gifted kids which aired on Disney) and released three albums with her band the Scene .
(6) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(7) Tory MPs campaigning in these seats have the difficulty of trying to win over voters at both ends of the spectrum: the Labour-Tory swing voters and the Ukip-Tory waverers.
(8) But still the 29-year-old Farah did not waver and sat in second, ready to strike, with two laps left.
(9) We’ve maintained that commitment, but we have to make sure that we’re spending that money as effectively as possible.” The announcement will dismay some rightwing Conservatives, who fear it could push some wavering voters to Ukip.
(10) After the election, he conceded there was “ some connectivity ” between human activity and climate change and wavered on a previous vow to “cancel” the Paris agreement.
(11) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
(12) Any wavering youth considering passage to Syria will see that they, too, might become the most talked-about man or woman in Britain, at least until the next MP scandal.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest General election needed before Christmas, says Tory backbencher Labour former prime minister Tony Blair told wavering voters considering Brexit: “If you’re not sure, don’t do it,” as he wrote in the Sunday Times that withdrawal would be a “betrayal of British interest”.
(14) We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.
(15) She continued: "The government is not only refusing to listen to the evidence, it is choosing to become a flag-waver-in-chief for the fracking industry, offering them generous tax breaks as well as allowing them senior roles within the government itself.
(16) We found that the patella displays complex but consistent three-dimensional motion patterns during flexion, which include flexion rotation, medial rotation, wavering tilt, and a lateral shift relative to the femur.
(17) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
(18) Labour warns its own waverers with exactly the same threat: "Vote Clegg, get Cameron", which could be true too.
(19) But, Cameron stressed, Britain's resolve to support this remote British Overseas Territory "has not wavered in the last 30 years and it will not in the years ahead".
(20) He was criticised for his views on gay sex and abortion, which MPs in liberal, metropolitan seats said arose repeatedly as an issue with the public, and had helped Labour scoop up waverers even in strongly pro-remain constituencies.