Quaver

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  • intransitive verb. To quiver, as from weakness; tremble.
  • intransitive verb. To speak in a quivering voice; utter a quivering sound.
  • intransitive verb. To produce a trill on an instrument or with the voice.
  • intransitive verb. To utter or sing in a trilling voice.
  • noun. A quivering sound.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A trill.
  • noun. An eighth note.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A quivering; a trembling.
  • noun. A tremulous or quivering sound or tone.
  • noun. A shake or similar embellishment, particularly in vocal music.
  • noun. An eighth-note (which see).
  • To have a tremulous motion; tremble; vibrate.
  • To sing or sound with the wavy tones of an untrained voice, or with a distinctly tremulous tone; hence, to sing, in general; also, to perform a shake or similar melodic embellishment with the voice or an instrument.
  • To sing in an artless manner or with tremulous tone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • noun. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
  • noun. An eighth note. See Eighth.
  • transitive verb. To utter with quavers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a trembling shake.
  • noun. a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
  • noun. an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
  • verb. to shake in a trembling manner.
  • verb. to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tremulous sound
  • verb. give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
  • verb. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
  • noun. a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
  • Word Usage
    "The English term for eighth-notes gets it right with "quaver", since these and other notes can do exactly that when played with alternating intensity, and even, suggests Quantz, duration."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    musical note  note  sing  sound  tone  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Laver  aver  baver  braver  caver  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Trilling  cackle  chuckle  droop  flicker  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    eighth  
    verb-form