Vibrating

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vibrate \Vi"brate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vibrated}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Vibrating}.] [L. vibratus, p. p. of vibrare, v. t. & v.
     i., to shake, brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble,
     Icel. veifa to wave, vibrate. See {Waive} and cf. {Whip}, v.
     t.]
     1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate


        a sword or a staff.
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     2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum
        vibrating seconds.
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     3. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
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              Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated,
              may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion.
                                                    --Holder.
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              Star to star vibrates light.          --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vibrating
       adj : moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down; "the
             vibrating piano strings" [syn: {vibratory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "vibrating":
     aspen, ceaseless, chattering, constant, continual, fluctuant,
     fluctuating, fluctuational, full, harmonic, incessant, libratory,
     machine gun, mellow, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, palsied,
     pendular, pendulous, perennial, periodic, perpetual, plangent,
     pulsating, pulsing, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering,
     quivery, rapid, regular, repeated, resonant, resonating, rich,
     rolling, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, shuddering, sonorous,
     staccato, steady, stuttering, succussatory, succussive, sustained,
     throbbing, trembling, trembly, tremulous, unbroken, unceasing,
     unchanging, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting,
     uninterrupted, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vacillating,
     vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibratory, wavering, wobbly