'Quaver' definitions:
Definition of 'quaver'
(from WordNet)
noun
A tremulous sound
noun
A musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note [syn: eighth note, quaver]
verb
Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency [syn: quaver, waver]
verb
Definition of 'Quaver'
From: GCIDE
- Quaver \Qua"ver\, v. t. To utter with quavers. [1913 Webster]
- We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quaver'
From: GCIDE
- Quaver \Qua"ver\, n.
- 1. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) An eighth note. See Eighth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quaver'
From: GCIDE
- Quaver \Qua"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Quavering.] [OE. quaven to shake, to tremble; cf. LG. quabbeln to shake, to be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. kwabbe, and E. quiver, v.]
- 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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 [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quaver'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidental,
- anthem,
- aphonia,
- artificial voice,
- ballad,
- Bebung,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bounce,
- break,
- breve,
- broken speech,
- broken tones,
- broken voice,
- bump,
- carol,
- chant,
- chatter,
- childish treble,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- choir,
- choked voice,
- chorus,
- cracked voice,
- croak,
- croon,
- crotchet,
- crow,
- demisemiquaver,
- descant,
- didder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dither,
- dithers,
- do-re-mi,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- drawl,
- dysarthria,
- dyslalia,
- dyslogia,
- dysphasia,
- dysphonia,
- dysphrasia,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- falsetto,
- falter,
- fidget,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- flat,
- flip out,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuation,
- flutter,
- freak out on,
- get high on,
- glow,
- go pitapat,
- grimace,
- half note,
- harshness,
- have an ague,
- have the fidgets,
- have the shakes,
- hawking voice,
- heave,
- heaving,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- hesitate,
- hiss,
- hoarseness,
- hum,
- hustle,
- hymn,
- idioglossia,
- idiolalia,
- impairment of speech,
- inquietude,
- intonate,
- intone,
- jactitate,
- jar,
- jerk,
- jig,
- jigget,
- jiggle,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- jounce,
- jump,
- lilt,
- lisp,
- lisping,
- loss of voice,
- mince,
- minim,
- minstrel,
- musical note,
- muzzy speech,
- nasal tone,
- nasalization,
- natural,
- note,
- oscillate,
- oscillation,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- pant,
- panting,
- patent note,
- pipe,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- psalm,
- quake,
- quaking,
- quarter note,
- quavering,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- report,
- responding note,
- restlessness,
- rictus,
- roulade,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- serenade,
- shake,
- shake all over,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- shiver,
- shivers,
- shock,
- shudder,
- sibilation,
- sing,
- sing in chorus,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- sol-fa,
- solmizate,
- speech defect,
- speech impediment,
- spiccato,
- squirm,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- swell,
- swell with emotion,
- talk incoherently,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- thrill,
- thrill to,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- tic,
- tingle,
- tingle with excitement,
- tone,
- toss,
- toss and turn,
- tremble,
- trembling,
- tremolando,
- tremolant,
- tremolo,
- tremor,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trill,
- trillet,
- trilleto,
- trillo,
- triplet,
- troll,
- tumble,
- turn on to,
- twang,
- tweedle,
- tweedledee,
- twist and turn,
- twit,
- twitch,
- twitter,
- unrest,
- vacillate,
- vibrate,
- vibration,
- vibrato,
- vocalize,
- warble,
- waver,
- wavering,
- whistle,
- whole note,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- wriggle,
- writhe,
- yodel