His odes shall be read with minim, or crochet, or quaver rests.
Source: tatoeba (10652488)
Quaver
//ˈkweɪvə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "quaver" (225 found)
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Strong matches (68)
dyslaliadyslogiadysphasiadysphoniadysphrasiaenharmonicenharmonic notefalsettofalterfidgetfidgetinessfidgetsflatflickerflip outflitterfluctuatefluctuationflutterfreak out
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freak out onget high onglowgo pitapatgrimacehalf noteharshnesshave an aguehave the fidgetshave the shakeshawking voiceheaveheavinghemidemisemiquaverhesitatehisshoarsenesshumhustlehymnidioglossiaidiolaliaimpairment of speechinquietudeintonateintonejactitatejarjerkjigjiggetjigglejogjogglejoltjostlejouncejumpliltlisplispingloss of voiceminceminimminstrelmusical notemuzzy speech
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nasal tonenasalizationnaturalnoteoscillateoscillationpalpitatepalpitationpantpantingpatent notepipepitapatpitter patterpitter-patterpsalmquakequakingquarter notequavering
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quiverquiveringreportresponding noterestlessnessrictusrouladesemibrevesemiquaverserenadeshakeshake all overshakesshakingshaped notesharpshivershiversshockshuddersibilationsingsing in chorussixteenth notesixty-fourth notesol fasol-fasolmizatespeech defectspeech impedimentspiccatosquirmstaccatosustained noteswellswell with emotiontalk incoherentlytercetthirty-second notethrillthrill tothrobthrobbingtictingletingle with excitementtonetosstoss and turntrembletremblingtremolandotremolanttremolotremortrepidationtrepiditytrilltrillettrilletotrillotriplettrolltumbleturn onturn on totwangtweedletweedledeetwist and turntwittwitchtwitterunrestvacillatevibratevibrationvibratovocalizewaverwaveringwhistlewhole notewigglewobblewrigglewritheyodel
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15 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 31 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- səkkizlik not noun ((music) an eighth note)
Basque
1 entries- kortxea noun ((music) an eighth note)
Bulgarian
4 entries- тремоло noun (a trembling of the voice)
- треперене noun (a trembling shake)
- тремолирам verb (to use the voice in a trembling manner)
- треперя verb (to shake)
Catalan
1 entries- corxera noun ((music) an eighth note)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 八分音符 noun ((music) an eighth note)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 八分音符 noun ((music) an eighth note)
Czech
4 entries- chvění noun (a trembling shake)
- chvění noun (a trembling of the voice)
- osminka noun ((music) an eighth note)
- osminová nota noun ((music) an eighth note)
Dutch
4 entries- achtste noot noun ((music) an eighth note)
- beving noun (a trembling shake)
- tremolo noun (a trembling of the voice)
- trilling noun (a trembling shake)
Finnish
1 entries- kahdeksasosanuotti noun ((music) an eighth note)
French
1 entries- croche noun ((music) an eighth note)
Galician
1 entries- corchea noun ((music) an eighth note)
Georgian
3 entries- რაკრაკი noun (a trembling shake)
- ტრელი noun (a trembling shake)
- ხმის კანკალი noun (a trembling of the voice)
German
4 entries- Achtelnote noun ((music) an eighth note)
- Beben noun (a trembling shake)
- Beben noun (a trembling of the voice)
- Trillern noun (a trembling of the voice)
Greek
1 entries- όγδοο noun ((music) an eighth note)
Hungarian
4 entries- nyolcad noun ((music) an eighth note)
- remegés noun (a trembling shake)
- remegés noun (a trembling of the voice)
- reszketés noun (a trembling shake)
Icelandic
2 entries- áttundapartsnóta noun ((music) an eighth note)
- áttundipartur noun ((music) an eighth note)
Italian
1 entries- croma noun ((music) an eighth note)
Japanese
1 entries- 八分音符 noun ((music) an eighth note)
Korean
1 entries- 팔분음표 noun ((music) an eighth note)
Malay
1 entries- kuaver noun ((music) an eighth note)
Middle English
1 entries- quaven verb (to shake)
Māori
1 entries- orohaurua noun ((music) an eighth note)
Polish
1 entries- ósemka noun ((music) an eighth note)
Portuguese
1 entries- colcheia noun ((music) an eighth note)
Romanian
3 entries- tremolo noun (a trembling of the voice)
- tremur noun (a trembling shake)
- tremur noun (a trembling of the voice)
Russian
1 entries- восьма́я но́та noun ((music) an eighth note)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- caman noun ((music) an eighth note)
Slovene
1 entries- osminka noun ((music) an eighth note)
Spanish
2 entries- corchea noun ((music) an eighth note)
- temblor noun (a trembling shake)
Swedish
2 entries- skälva noun (a trembling of the voice)
- åttondelsnot noun ((music) an eighth note)
Vietnamese
2 entries- móc đơn noun ((music) an eighth note)
- nốt móc đơn noun ((music) an eighth note)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
This Inspector, when I first knew him, was a man of fourscore years, or thereabouts, and certainly one of the most wonderful specimens of winter-green that you would be likely to discover in a lifetime’s search. With his florid cheek, his compact figure, smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch. His voice and laugh, which perpetually re-echoed through the Custom-House, had nothing of the tremulous quaver and cackle of an old man’s utterance; they came strutting out of his lungs, like the crow of a cock, or the blast of a clarion.
Source: tatoeba (12192485)
The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.
Source: wiktionary
"Aw come on, guys!" The woman, clearly overwhelmed by the force of the two friends' personalities, quavered on the point of tears.
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