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verb-intransitive. To quiver, as from weakness; tremble.

verb-intransitive. To speak in a quivering voice; utter a quivering sound.

verb-intransitive. Music To produce a trill on an instrument or with the voice.

v. To utter or sing in a trilling voice.

n. A quivering sound.

n. A trill.

n. Chiefly British An eighth note.

n. a trembling shake.

n. a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.

n. an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

v. to shake in a trembling manner.

v. to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.

verb-intransitive. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

verb-intransitive. 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. 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.

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.

n. A quivering; a trembling.

n. A tremulous or quivering sound or tone.

n. A shake or similar embellishment, particularly in vocal music.

n. An eighth-note (which see).

n. a tremulous sound

v. give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

v. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

n. a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note

"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."

quavered    quavering    quavers   

sound    voice    vocalize    vocalise    sing    tone    musical note    note   

quaver-rest    minim    longa    crotchet    breve    semibreve   

hemidemisemiquaver    semiquaver    demisemiquaver   

eighth   

quavered    quavering   

tremble    vibrate    shake    trill    quiver    falter   

Laver    aver    baver    braver    caver    craver    disfavor    engraver    favor    flavor   

undercurrent    yelp    titter    cackle    tremulousness    droop    tingle    waver    tremor    overtone