(v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
(v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
(v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
(v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
(v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
(v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) The intensity changes seen for alpha-fucose were found to follow a reversible first-order rate-equation and the rate constants obtained from different vibrational bands were found to be consistent among themselves and in reasonable agreement with those obtained by other techniques.
(4) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(5) The response of isolated muscle tissue of white rats to low-frequency vibration has been studied.
(6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
(7) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) Additionally, by ultrasonic vibration of tissues that had been subjected to prolonged osmium fixation, the epithelium was removed and such microdissected membranes similarly were examined.
(9) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(10) The only likely cause for the pathological vascular findings in our patient was an exposure to vibration due to excessive off-street motorcycle driving.
(11) Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy with 0.5-ps resolution is used to track the evolution of the CO stretching vibration after visible photoexcitation of carboxyhemoglobin in water at room temperature.
(12) Biodynamic stressors such as acceleration, vibration, heat, and cold can affect pilot performance.
(13) There have been shown many changes, which took place in the various anatomic-physiological formations of the brain, and evaluated their significance in organism's responses to the effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, hyperoxia, hypoxia, accelerations, vibrations and combined effects of some of those factors.
(14) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
(15) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
(16) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(17) Our experiments with monkeys gave typical resonance curves for the transmission of vibration of the bulbi with maxima between 25 and 31.5 Hz.
(18) Altering the frequency of vibration did not alter the distribution of tremor frequencies.
(19) Superficial cutaneous stimulation of the dorsal side of the forearm during tendon vibration noticeably decreased the P1 peaks in both types of motor units.
(20) A survey is given of the literature on the sensitivity of the vestibular system to audio-frequency sound and vibration in animals.
Vibrato
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Broadly, semantic scales clustered into the categories vocal technique, general evaluation, vibrato, clarity, and sharpness.
(2) Finally, Experiment 5 indicated that in trained listeners, vibrato had no influence on identification performance even when the maskers and the vowels had synchronous onsets and offsets.
(3) In Experiment 3, vibrated rather than steady pulse trains were used as maskers; when these maskers were at 40 dB, the vibrated versions of the vowels were slightly less identifiable than their steady versions; but, as in Experiment 2, vibrato had no effect when the maskers were at 65 dB.
(4) The subjects used slightly more vibrato when singing in the solo mode.
(5) Bi-phonation and vibrato occurred more often, double harmonic break and glottal roll less often.
(6) Graphs of this autocorrelation function for a number of violin sound samples, including a two-octave scale, vibrato, and glissando, are presented.
(7) In the present study, in terms of these problems, utilizing the modal analysis applying a vibrato-logical technique and the strain gauge device appropriate for the determination of the time-course, samples of chrome-cobalt alloy and of partial denture were examined for the influence of inserted adhesive and non-adhesive resins upon them.
(8) She delivers that last word with a kind of oratorical vibrato.
(9) Vibrato was indirectly produced by the vocal cords.
(10) Vibrato was also made by rhythmic open and narrowing movements of the glottis.
(11) Two of the characteristics studied, vibrato and the 'tonal pit', occurred significantly more often in cries of the cleft palate infants than in cries of the control series.
(12) This effect of vibrato should probably be considered as a Gestalt phenomenon originating from central auditory mechanisms.
(13) And he did it casually, without the vibrato of "this is hugely dangerous and difficult".
(14) Frequency modulation characteristics of sustained vowel phonations in vocal vibrato were investigated.
(15) Differences among the soft (pianissimo), light, neutral, free, straight, extra vibrato, and loud (fortissimo) modes were mainly due to the spectral effect of vocal effort, which constituted a very dominant first spectral dimension.
(16) Experiment 1 showed that for maskers consisting of bursts of pink noise, vibrato had no effect on thresholds.
(17) There's a sensuality to the vocal which is the result of me finally having the mic to myself and simply revelling in the experience – all that lovely reverb, all that lovely low vibrato; God, I was enjoying myself!
(18) Implications of these findings for the nature of underlying mechanisms of frequency control in vocal vibrato are discussed.
(19) Validation, calibration, and reliability data from synthesized test signals with modulation, as well as phonation from subjects with vocal tremor, subjects producing vibrato, and subjects with normal voice are presented.
(20) Travolta, however ( Tra-volta ), introduced the Tony-award winning Broadway star to the stage, thusly: Facebook Twitter Pinterest If you didn’t quite catch that, here’s a full transcript: Please welcome, the WiCk-edly talented, the juan and oNly Idina Menzel azhfgfljfefhisjkfs Setting aside for a moment the fact that Travolta apparently also struggles with the word ‘wickedly’, and adds a vibrato flourish to “the one and only”, the glaringly obvious discrepancy here is the blender of vowels he tries to pass off as a name.