Dictionary Entry
quaver
quaver is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
- 2intransitive 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
- 3transitive verb
To utter with quavers.
- 4noun
A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
- 5noun
An eighth note. See Eighth.
- 6noun
a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
- 7noun
a tremulous sound
- 8verb
sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
- 9verb
give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
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