(v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
(n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
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Warble
Definition:
(n.) A small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.
(n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles.
(n.) See Wormil.
(v. t.) To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
(v. t.) To utter musically; to modulate; to carol.
(v. t.) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
(v. i.) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
(v. i.) To sing in a trilling manner, or with many turns and variations.
(v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
(n.) A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two boys with ophthalmomyiasis caused by the first instar larva of the reindeer warble fly Hypoderma tarandi are reported.
(2) Cattle exposed to their third consecutive warble (Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis) infestation had significantly reduced apparent and accumulative grub populations and produced significantly fewer grubs than animals exposed to their first infestation.
(3) A bi-layered warble capsule surrounded the cavity as a thin layer and a thick diffuse outer layer.
(4) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(5) Thirty-four normal-hearing 4-year-old children were tested with conventional steady-state pure tones and with warbled tones to compare efficiency of the stimuli.
(6) Warble tone thresholds were markedly better than unmodulated thresholds at 14 and 16 kHz.
(7) The song ended on an emotional warble, then Nicolas rummaged in a drawer and handed me a small circle of cloth.
(8) At the end of each month, a satisfaction questionnaire was completed and free field assessment, consisting of speech in noise discrimination measurement and warble tone threshold determinations, was performed.
(9) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(10) The growing warble expanded into the subcutaneous tissue of the inguinal area and stretched the hide caudally.
(11) Speech band comfort levels were found to be significantly higher than equal-duration noise band or warble tone comfort levels.
(12) The effect of the last developmental phase of the warble fly (Hypoderma bovis de Greer) larvas was studied as exerted on some health indices of milk in 20 experimental (treated) and 18 control (untreated) first-calvers of the Pinzgau breed at two localities of an area affected by bovine hypodermosis in the period from May to June, 1975.
(13) "My sister lives in Italy and here local supermarket has a very inviting offer on: do a big shop there on the day of an Italy match, and if Italy win the game you will be given a coupon for the amount that you spent, entitling you to free goods of the same value next time you come," warbles Peter Jenkins.
(14) It was concluded that convincing evidence to persuade the audiologist to select warbled over conventional steady-state pure tones for testing children was lacking.
(15) Wild-caught, tethered females of the reindeer warble fly, Hypoderma tarandi (L.) (= Oedemagena tarandi (L.)), (Diptera, Oestridae) were stimulated to oviposit on hairs of a reindeer hide.
(16) No differences in warble production were found in hosts of either sex.
(17) The warble-tone and speech detection thresholds aided with the implant devices of the first two patients were comparable with those found in western cases.
(18) Thresholds were ranked from most to least sensitive as follows: warble-tone, pure-tone, and narrow-band noise.
(19) In frequency regions where the masked audiogram was relatively flat, p-t and warble-tone (w-t) HTLs were equivalent.
(20) Stimulus configurations included the constant-frequency vibrations used by other laboratories as well as frequency-modulated (warbled) stimulus patterns.