Dither

Definition: Dither

Dither

Noun

1. An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft".

Verb

1. Act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain.

2. Make a fuss; be agitated.

3. Shake, as from cold or fear.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dither

Well, I'm jolly well going to dither, then! (Topper; writing credit: Eric Hatch; Jack Jevne)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dither Farm: A Novel (Laurel-Leaf Books) (reference)

• Wither or dither : British aerospace collaborative procurement with Europe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Dither (reference)

• Swarm & Dither (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "dither": be all in a dither ♦ be all of a dither ♦ be in a dither. Additional references.

Albanian

druhem (be shy, boggle, doubt, dread), drojë (dismay, phobia, shyness), dridhje (didder, fibrillation, flicker, flickering, flutter, jarring, jerk, palpitation, pulse, quake, quiver, shake, shaking, shiver, shudder, throb, tremble, trembling, tremolo, tremor, twitch, vibrancy, vibration), dridhem (blink, dodder, flicker, flinch, give a start, pulsate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, twiddle, twitch, vibrate, wabble, waver, wince, wobble, writhe), ngurroj (boggle, demur, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, linger, pendulate, scruple, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), ngurrim (demur, falter, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance, reserve, shilly shally). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, pause, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ‏إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, bustling, commotion, delirium, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fuss, great rage, in a state, ramp, rampage, sensation, stir, willies), ‏إنفعال (delirium, effervescence, emotion, excitement, flurry, furor, impression, passivity, poignancy, redness, temper, thrill, tizzy), ‏إرتجف (chill, jar, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble), ‏إرتجاف (quaver, quiver, shudder, stirring, throb, trembling, tremor, twitter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

треса се (quake, tremble), треперя (cower, jitter, judder, niddle-noddle, palpitate, pulsate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, thrill, tremble, tremor, vibrate, waver), треперене (quake, the shakes, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, vibration), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), вълнение (agitation, commotion, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset), пипкам се (be slow, dawdle, hang fire). (various references)

Chinese 

励振. (various references)

Czech

váhat (be in a dither, delay, falter, hang back, hesitate, hold back, procrastinate, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, temporize, vacillate, waver), váhání (hesitation, vacillation, wobble), být nerozhodný (hesitate, sit on the fence, vacillate), být liknavý. (various references)

Danish

dither. (various references)

Dutch

trilsignaal. (various references)

Farsi 

هیجان (Boil, Fit, Ignition, Lather, Thrill, Tornado, Unco), لرزیدن (Dodder, Flicker, Quail, Quake, Quiver, Shake, Shiver, Shudder, Throb, Tremble, Trill, Vibrate). (various references)

Finnish

värähtelyvirta. (various references)

French

dither, trembler, tremblement, signal de superposition, panique, irritation, hésiter. (various references)

German

Zittersignal, Schwanken (alternate, fluctuate, hesitate, oscillate, oscillation, pitch, range, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, to dither (between), to falter, to fluctuate, to sway, totter, tumble, unsteadiness, vacillate, vacillation, vary, vibrate, waver, wobble), Aufregung (agitation, commotion, discomposure, excitement, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, inflammation, pother, stir). (various references)

Greek 

έξαψη (excitement, flush, fluster, petulance, rampage, spurt, tizzy, twitter), σήμα διατηρήσεως ευαισθησίας, τρεμούλα (collywobbles, jitters, tremble, trepidation). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרעו�" (quake, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble), �"תר�'שות יתר (fuss), רע�" (ague, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, trembling, tremor). (various references)

Hungarian

remegés (flutter, judder, palpitation, quake, quiver, shuddering, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity, vibration), remeg (quake, to dither, to flutter, to judder, to palpitate, to quake, to quiver, to shudder, to tremble, tremble), izgalom (ado, affect, agitation, bang, combustion, excitation, excitement, fermentation, flurry, fluster, flutter, fume, furor, furore, perturbation, shake-up, stew, stir, tension, thrill, throes, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity, turmoil). (various references)

Indonesian

sibuk (busy). (various references)

Italian

vacillare (falter, flicker, jiggle, reel, shake, sway, swim, totter, wabble, waver, wobble), tremare (dodder, flutter, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, tremble), oscillare (balance, flicker, fluctuate, jiggle, oscillate, range, rock, seesaw, sway, swing, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

おみ籤 (all shook up, chubby person, clog, congratulations, dressing up, flustered, in a dither, lounging about, my goodness!, my!, nervous, not to mention, oh!, oh?, sexual intercourse, vagina, written oracle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おろおろ (all shook up, flustered, in a dither, nervous). (various references)

Korean 

당황 (Embarrassment). (various references)

Manx

craa (bestrew, brandish, dodder, flicker, flutter, jog, jolt, judder, quaver, ring, rustle, shake, shiver, shock, sprinkle, toss, toss of head, tremble, vibrate, warble, wave, wave of hand). (various references)

Pig Latin

itherday

Portuguese

tremor (didder, palpitation, quake, quassation, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, trepidation, wave), tremer (chitter, dodder, flicker, flutter, knock, niddle-noddle, nutate, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, tremble), sinal de sobreposição, estremecimento (joggle, jump, quake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremor, wince), estremecer (jerk, pulsate, quake, quiver, shake, tremble), arrepio (chill, creeps, gooseflesh, goose-skin, horripilation, rigor, shiver, shudder, thrill), arrepiar (bristle, crawl, horrify, jar, rough, spite, tousle). (various references)

Romanian

tremura (cower, falter, flicker, palpitate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, rock, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), oscila (dally, dilly dally, hesitate, librate, oscillate, rock, swing, vacillate, vibrate, waver). (various references)

Russian 

смятение (alarm, commotion, dismay, hurly-burly, perturbation, tumult, turmoil), смущение (abashment, bewilderment, blankness, confusion, disorder, embarrassment, perturbation), трепетать (flutter, palpitate, pant, quiver, thrill, tremble), крайнее возбуждение, колебаться (be torn between, dilly dally, fluctuate, fluctuating, go seesaw, hand back, hang in the balance, hesitate, hover, nutate, oscillate, oscillated, pendulate, seesaw, shilly shally, shuttling, stumble at, swing, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wavered, whiffle, whiffled), озноб (ague, chill, rigor), находиться в возбуждении, приводить в смятение (distract, perturb), дрожь (chill, didder, quake, quiver, shiver, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor, tremors, tremulously, tremulousness, trepidation), дрожать (chatter, dodder, flutter, jar, jitter, palpitate, quake, shake, shiver, shivered, thrill, tingle, tremble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzrujanost (agitation, fret, nervousness, ruffle, tizzy), uznemirenost (disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fidget, inquietude, toss, uneasiness), treperenje (flicker, flickering, quiver, roll, trembling, vacillation, vibration, warble, wave, winking), podrhtavati (palpitate, quaver, thrill, tremble). (various references)

Spanish

dither, vacilo, vacilar (balance, Dicker, flicker, hang back, hesitate, hold back, pause, range, vacillate, waver), temblar de (pant, quiver, shake with), temblante (quaking, trembler, trembling), pujar (bid, bid up, falter, moan, overbid, overcall, strain), oscilación de pequeña amplitud, no saber que hacer (be at a loose end, be at one's wits' end, flounder, mooch about, mooch around), estar nerviosísimo. (various references)

Swedish

darra (dodder, flicker, palpitate, quake, quaver, quiver, shiver, throb, tremble, wobble), darr (bouncing, jitter, jumping), vara upprörd, upprördhet (discomposure, emotion, excitement, flap, indignation), tveka (be doubtful, falter, halt, hem, hesitate, hover, shilly shally, vacillate). (various references)

Turkish

duraksamak (balk, baulk, come to a stop, falter, halt, hang back, hesitate, hobble, hover, pause, vibrate, waver), titremek (dodder, falter, flicker, flutter, jerk, judder, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), titreme (chill, flicker, judder, pulsation, quake, quaking, quiver, rigor, rigour, shake, shaking, shimmy, shiver, shivering, shudder, the shivers, thrill, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, vibration), tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., falter, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pause, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, stagger, stickle, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble, yaw), kararsızlık (changeability, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fickleness, flightiness, fluctuation, haziness, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, inconsistency, indecision, indeterminate, infirmity, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, looseness, oscillation, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability), kararsız olmak (back and fill, be hazy about, be in two minds, be uncertain, be vague about smth., doubt, fluctuate, pendulate, seesaw, vacillate), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпалювати (blow, burn up, enkindle, foment, hot, hot up, quicken, waken, warm, whip), тремтіти (flutter, palpitate, quaver, shake, shudder), замішання (amazement, bewilderment, discomfiture, fluster, nonplus, puzzle, puzzlement), бентежитися (whirl), дрож (quiver, shiver, tingle, tremble, tremor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự rung rinh (tremor), sự run lập cập, sự rùng mình sự lung lay, sự lay động (agitation). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dither": dithered, ditherer, ditherers, dithering, dithers, dithery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dither" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aither, Daghir, dather, deather, detha, dether, Dethier, Deutsher, diatthoea, diether, Dighe, diha, dipher, diter, dith, ditha, dithey, Ditter, dohter, dothe, dother, driphter, Dritherm, d'thee, Duphar, duther, Dyter, ither, tither. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hider, hired, ither, their, third, tired, tried.

-2 letters: diet, dire, dirt, dite, edit, heir, herd, hide, hied, hire, ired, ride, rite, thir, tide, tied, tier, tire.

-3 letters: die, dit, edh, eth, her, het, hid, hie, hit, ire, red, rei, ret, rid, ted, the, tie.

-4 letters: de, ed, eh, er, et, he, hi, id, it.

+1 letter: airthed, birthed, diether, ditcher, dithers, dithery, girthed, righted, theroid, thirled, thrived, writhed.

+2 letters: antherid, diethers, disherit, ditchers, dithered, ditherer, eldritch, frighted, hardiest, heredity, philtred, redshift, redshirt, thirsted, thrilled, thyreoid, tracheid, trihedra, trophied, withdrew, withered.

+3 letters: anhydrite, antherids, apartheid, atrophied, birthdate, blithered, charioted, chittered, chondrite, dehorting, delighter, diathermy, disherits, dishwater, ditherers, dithering, doughtier, dowitcher, drouthier, erythroid, etherized, euthyroid, freighted, handwrite, hardiment, headfirst, herniated, hysteroid, inearthed, inherited, inthroned, lightered, philtered, printhead, redshifts, redshirts, relighted, resighted, rhodolite, rhodonite, rhytidome, slithered, swithered, tarnished, theorised, theorized, therapsid, threadfin, threadier, threading, threnodic, tracheids, trailhead, trephined, trihedral, trihedron, triumphed, uprighted.

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