Quaver

['kweɪvə] or ['kwevɚ]

Definition

(noun.) a tremulous sound.

(verb.) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency.

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Definition

(v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

(v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

(v. t.) To utter with quavers.

(n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

(n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Tremble, shake, quiver.

n. (Mus.) [1]. Shake.[2]. Eighth-note, eighth of a semibreve, quarter of a minim, half of a crotchet.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See PLEASURE]

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Definition

v.i. to shake: to sing or play with tremulous modulations.—n. a trembling: a vibration of the voice: a note in music=half a crotchet or one-eighth of a semibreve.—n. Quā′verer.—adv. Quā′veringly.

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