(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.
Wobble
Definition:
(v. i.) See Wabble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data presented indicate that 6-TG-induced differentiation of HL-60 cells is a tRNA-facilitated event and that the tRNA wobble base queuine is capable of maintaining both the proliferative and pluripotent potential of the cells.
(2) The new base-pairings involved G.C and A.U, and the A.C wobble pair at certain positions in the tRNA.
(3) These tRNA species are synthesized with guanine in the wobble position (tRNAG); this guanine can then be replaced with queuine by the action of the enzyme tRNA-guanine ribosyltransferase.
(4) A few emerging-market economies have similar wobbles to Iceland but get assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
(5) Van Gaal is conscious the deficit to Manchester City can be made up but also that a defeat could precipitate a wobble as serious as December’s.
(6) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
(7) Data are acquired in the stationary mode only (no wobble motion), resulting in a transaxial spatial resolution of better than 6 mm full width at half-maximum (FWHM) at the center, which degrades to 7.5 mm tangentially and 9.6 mm radially at a radius of 20 cm.
(8) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(9) ), is also shifted by GpUpA and was previously assigned to FUra 34 at the wobble position of the anticodon.
(10) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(11) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
(12) We see people who are grossly fat, their wobbling, sad bodies being winched out of windows, and class that as "obesity", distancing ourselves from the term.
(13) As the temperature increases, the wobble amplitude increases and the spectra narrow.
(14) So Nottinghamshire were wobbling on 90 for four when their two old lags combined to calm the favourites' nerves.
(15) In order to examine the effects of this mutation on translation of the complementary and wobble codons in vivo, we constructed the gene for an amber (UAG) suppressing variant of Su9, trpT179, by making the additional nucleotide change required for an amber suppressor anticodon.
(16) The economic credibility of the country that holds the global reserve currency has wobbled.
(17) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
(18) Incorporation of structure 1 into a 3'-stacked tRNA anticodon appears to place 08 within hydrogen bonding distance of the 02' hydroxyl of ribose 33, which may limit the ability of such a molecule of tRNA to "wobble".
(19) Each movie group – Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Selma, etc – sits defensively together, sort of like high-school cliques in the canteen of an 80s teen movie, and those proud, defiant smiles they managed to maintain for TV have long since wobbled away a bit.
(20) The complete nucleotide sequences of both rat liver and Walker 256 mammary carcinosarcoma tRNAAsn reveal that they are identical except for the nucleotide present in the wobble position of the anticodon loop.