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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move back and forth; gesture |
| Synonyms: | beckon, billow, brandish, coil, curl, direct, falter, flap, flourish, flow, fluctuate, flutter, fly, gesticulate, indicate, motion, move to and fro, oscillate, palpitate, pulsate, pulse, quaver, quiver, reel, ripple, seesaw, shake, sign, signal, stir, stream, surge, sway, swell, swing, swirl, swish, switch, tremble, twirl, twist, undulate, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, waver, whirl, wield, wigwag, wobble |
| Main Entry: | pulsate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat |
| Synonyms: | drum, fluctuate, go pit-a-pat, hammer, oscillate, palpitate, pound, pulse, pump, quiver, roar, throb, thrum, thud, thump, tick, vibrate |
| Main Entry: | trill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | warble |
| Synonyms: | quaver, roll, shake, sound, tremolo, twirl, vibrate, vibrato |
| Main Entry: | quaver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sway |
| Synonyms: | falter, note, oscillate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, tremor, trill, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble |
| Main Entry: | shimmy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shake |
| Synonyms: | dance, vibrate, wobble |
| Notes: | you shimmy when you shake or vibrate; you shinny up a pole or rope |
| Main Entry: | reecho |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | echo |
| Synonyms: | ape, ditto*, do like, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, rebound, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, repeat, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, rubber-stamp, second, vibrate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | sound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
acoustic, altitonant, amphorous, anechoic, assonant, audible, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, borborygmic, buccinal, cacuminal, closed, deaf, distinct, dumb, faint, foudroyant, glad, inaudible, isacoustic, loud, monophonic, mum, mute, noisy, non, quadraphonic, quiet, rataplan, raucous, reel, rooped, roupy, singultous, soft, sonant, sonic, soniferous, sonorific, sonorous, sounding, soundproof, stereophonic, stertorous, still, stone, supersonic, throaty, tone
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| Concept: | Sound. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; sound in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound.
-adjectives
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
-phrases
"a thousand trills and quivering sounds" [Addison]; forensis strepitus.
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| Antonyms: | silence |
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