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Vibrate   /vˈaɪbreɪt/   Listen
verb
Vibrate  v. t.  (past & past part. vibrated; pres. part. vibrating)  
1.
To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
2.
To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
3.
To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration. "Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may... impress a swift, tremulous motion." "Star to star vibrates light."


Vibrate  v. i.  
1.
To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
2.
To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
3.
To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
4.
To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.





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"Vibrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfume of flowers. In the valley resounded the ceaseless whirr of the cicalas, answering one another from shore to shore; the mountains reechoed with innumerable sounds; the whole country seemed to vibrate like crystal. We passed among myriads of Japanese junks, gliding softly, wafted by imperceptible breezes on the smooth water; their motion could hardly be heard, and their white sails, stretched out on yards, fell languidly in a thousand horizontal folds like window-blinds, ...
— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti
... Sarka the First, "the roof of the Gens area would begin to vibrate, to vibrate throughout all the area, and even into all surrounding Gens areas—and in time ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... waves that can vibrate matter in a straight line! One Jackson Gee vibrates it in two straight ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... with the Unknown, Hamar and his companions did not get back to their respective quarters till the sun was high in the heavens, and the streets of the city were beginning to vibrate with the rattle ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... pretty head back, as if for support, and I noticed that her slender hands, as they grasped either arm of the chair, trembled, in spite of the grip she took to steady herself. I felt her whole body vibrate, as a violin vibrates for a moment after the bow ...
— Told in a French Garden - August, 1914 • Mildred Aldrich


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