Definition of vibrate

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Vibrate (v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate..

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Revibrate :: Revibrate (v. i.) To vibrate back or in return.
Flutter :: Flutter (v. t.) To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings..
Quaver :: Quaver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
Swing :: Swing (v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate..
Quake :: Quake (v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake..
Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration
Wag :: Wag (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head..
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear..
Swing :: Swing (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other..
Dirl :: Dirl (v. i. & t.) To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.
Node :: Node (n.) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point..
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds..
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..
Vibrate :: Vibrate (imp. & p. p.) of Vibrat.
Evibrate :: Evibrate (v. t. & i.) To vibrate.
Undulate :: Undulate (v. i.) To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air..
Shiver :: Shiver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear..
Wag :: Wag (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver..
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