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vibrate

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s (intransitive) "move to and fro;" 1660s, "swing to and fro;" from Latin vibratus , past participle of vibrare "set in tremulous motion, move quickly to and fro, quiver, tremble, shake," from PIE *wib-ro- , from root *weip- "to turn, vacillate, tremble ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to #Verb rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms. vb. 1 To move with small movements rapidly to and fro. 2 To resonate. 3 To brandish; to swing to and fro. 4 To mark or measure by moving ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Everything in the room was vibrating to the beat of the drum. ▪ Some insects' wings vibrate so fast that the movement is invisible to the human eye. ▪ Strings vibrate more quickly if they are short and thin. EXAMPLES FROM ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vibrate is an album by The Manhattan Transfer . It was released on September 28, 2004 on Telarc International Corporation. The album is available in three formats: Super Audio CD , CD and MP3 Download.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vibrate \Vi"brate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vibrate ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vibrating .] [L. vibratus, p. p. of vibrare, v. t. & v. i., to snake, brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, vibrate. See Waive and cf. Whip , v. t.] To brandish; ...

Usage examples of vibrate.

But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle.

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.

In order that astral events other than those manifesting acoustically may become accessible to our consciousness, our own astral being must become capable of vibrating in tune with them, just as if we were hearing them - that is, we must be able to rouse our astral forces to an activity similar to that of hearing, yet without any physical stimulus.

All at once the group opened up a bit and they saw a silvery, glittering aeroplane, agleam with new aluminum paint, throbbing and vibrating, as if anxious to be off.

Pacino waited for the deck to vibrate with the energy of 52,000-shaft horsepower back aft pushing them through the ocean.

Schliemann is like one in old times, who, while longing to tell of the Atrides and of Cadmus, yet allowed the chords of his heart to vibrate to softer influences, I will, while proposing his health, conjoin with his name that of his energetic fellow-explorer, Madame Schliemann.

Just as the beeper vibrates again for the second installment, but Nathan, not bothering, rebuttons his jacket.

Strange was coming out of a massage parlor when he felt his beeper vibrate against his hip.

Mike squinted to look at the number displayed on his beeper, which must have been vibrating on his waistband, while I went on talking.

The forty-foot barrels of the nine-inch guns moved restlessly, seeming to sniff for their prey, and the Blucher raced on, lifting a hissing white wave at her bows, vibrating and shuddering to the thrust of her engines as they built up to full speed.

They sat with the brakes on, vibrating, until the engine reached full power, then Bluey released the brakes.

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach.

Joe Slater grows cold and rigid, and the coarse brains are ceasing to vibrate as I wish.

The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.

I been able to give an idea of the extreme antiquity, the perfect cleanliness, nor the vibrating song of the cicalas that seems to have been stored away within it, in its parched-up fibres, during hundreds of summers.