Synonymer

Uttal

  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: [kʍɪvə(ɹ)]
    • IPA: /kwɪvə(ɹ)/
    • IPA: /ˈkwɪ.vɜː/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
  3. Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
  4. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Adjektiv

  1. (archaic) Nimble, active.

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

Exempel

  • Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
  • Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
  • He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
  • [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
  • The birds chaunt melody on every bush, / The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, / The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind / And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.
  • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
  • The Dead Sea Sparrow shares a courtship display in which males quiver their wings above their body.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipquiveredImperfektquivered
PresensparticipquiveringPluralquivers
Komparativmore quiverSuperlativmost quiver
Tredje person singular indicativ presensquivers

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