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Definition: Quivering |
QuiveringAdjective1. Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands". Noun1. A shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe". 2. The act of vibrating. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quivering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: QuiveringSynonyms: quaking (adj), shaky (adj), shivering (adj), palpitation (n), quiver (n), shakiness (n), shaking (n), trembling (n), vibration (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes. |
Fear | Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Quivering |
| English words defined with "quivering": quavering, Quiveringly ♦ thrilling, tremulous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quivering": akathisia, Arms of England. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'll let you get back to Reginold's quivering member. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) Quivering memberI like that. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) We plunged into the cornucopia quivering with desire and the ecstasy of unbridled avarice. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) | |
Lyrics | Can't control the quivering inside (A Groovy Kind Of Love; performing artist: Phil Collins) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was a quivering in the grass which seemed like the departure of souls. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen drew back his maimed and quivering right arm and held out his left hand. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Ventricular fibrillation--Rapid, irregular quivering of the heart's ventricles, with no effective heartbeat. (references) | |
Spasmodic dysphonia may co-occur with other movement disorders such as blepharospasm (excessive eye blinking and involuntary forced eye closure), tardive dyskinesia (involuntary and repetitious movement of muscles of the face, body, arms and legs), oromandibular dystonia (involuntary movements of the jaw muscles, lips and tongue), torticollis (involuntary movements of the neck muscles), or tremor (rhythmic, quivering muscle movements). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Quivering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 78.76% of the time. "Quivering" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 78.76% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.06% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.66% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "quivering": with quivering lips. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "quivering": quivering-nosed. | |
Ending with "quivering": still-quivering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quivering | 4 |
orgasm quivering | 3 |
quim quivering | 3 |
babbling carcass corner in into man quivering toughest | 2 |
lip quivering | 2 |
orgasms quivering | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quivering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهتز (quaking, shaking, trembling, tremulous, vibrant), مرتعش (quavering, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, tremulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 颤抖 (Quaked, Quaking, Quiver, Quivered, shiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trilling (flutter, quiver, vibration), rilling (quiver, vibration), huivering (quiver, vibration), beving (quiver, vibration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | tremo (quiver, vibration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | frisson (quiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ridel (quiver, vibration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bebend (quaking, quavering, quavery, shaking, tremulous, unsteady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρεμάμενοσ (tremulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת ו"" (flounce, fluctuation, lurch, migration, motion, movement, oscillation, vibration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tremolante (flickering, quavery, shaking, trembling, twinkling), tremante (shaking, shivering, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, tremulously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | er creau (doddering, quake, shuddering, tremble, trembling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iveringquay tremurãtor (faltering, quaking, quavery, shaky, trembling, tremulous). (various references) drhtanje (chorea, shivering, thrill, trembling). (various references) tembloroso (flickering, palsied, quaky, quavering, quavery, shaking, shaky, trembling, trembly), temblor (dither, jitter, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shakiness, shiver, temblor, tremble, trembling, tremor), parpadeante, estremecimiento (quiver, shaking, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, throbbing, tingle, tingling, tremble, trembling, tremor, vibration), carcaj (quiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crispus, tremor, tremore, tremulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quivering": quiveringly. (additional references) | |
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"Quivering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: qivering, quaverig, quaveringly, quieren, quiveringly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quivering" (pronounced kwi"vering) |
| 5 | -i" v er i ng | delivering, shivering. |
| 4 | -v er i ng | covering, discovering, disfavoring, endeavoring, favoring, flavoring, hovering, levering, maneuvering, recovering, rediscovering, savoring, severing, uncovering, unwavering, wavering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, recapturing, reconsidering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, unflattering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-q-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: inquire, quiring, reiving. | |
-3 letters: quiver, requin, riving, vinier, virgin. | |
-4 letters: genii, given, giver, inure, iring, quern, quire, reign, renig, riven, ruing, unrig, urine. | |
-5 letters: genu, gien, girn, give, grin, grue, nevi, quin, rein, ring, rive, ruin, rune, rung, urge, vein, vier, vine. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-q-r-u-v" | |
+2 letters: quiveringly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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