Quiver vs. Shiver — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Quiver and Shiver
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Quiver
A quiver is a container for holding arrows, bolts, darts, or javelins. It can be carried on an archer's body, the bow, or the ground, depending on the type of shooting and the archer's personal preference.
Shiver
To shake or tremble, as from cold or fear.
Quiver
To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement.
Shiver
To quiver or vibrate, as by the force of the wind.
Quiver
To tremble, as from cold or strong emotion.
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Shiver
To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
Quiver
The act or motion of quivering.
Shiver
To break into fragments or splinters; shatter.
Quiver
A portable case for holding arrows.
Shiver
To cause to break suddenly into fragments or splinters.
Quiver
A case full of arrows.
Shiver
An instance of shivering or trembling.
Quiver
A collection or store; arsenal
A quiver of ready responses.
Shiver
Shivers An attack of shivering. Used with the.
Quiver
(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
Shiver
A fragment or splinter.
Quiver
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
Shiver
To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.
Quiver
(obsolete) A vulva.
Shiver
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Quiver
(obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
Shiver
To break into splinters or fragments.
Quiver
(mathematics) A multidigraph.
Shiver
The act of shivering.
A shiver went up my spine.
Quiver
(archaic) Nimble, active.
Shiver
(medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp
Quiver
(intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
Shiver
A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
Quiver
Nimble; active.
Shiver
A thin slice; a shive.
Quiver
To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.
And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
Shiver
(geology) A variety of blue slate.
Quiver
The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
Shiver
(nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
Quiver
A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
Beside him hung his bowAnd quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored.
Shiver
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
Quiver
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
A frisson of surprise shot through him
Shiver
A spindle.
Quiver
A shaky motion;
The shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
Shiver
Collective noun for a group of sharks
Quiver
Case for holding arrows
Shiver
One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; - generally used in the plural.
Quiver
The act of vibrating
Shiver
A thin slice; a shive.
Of your soft bread, not but a shiver.
Quiver
Shake with fast, tremulous movements;
His nostrils palpitated
Shiver
A variety of blue slate.
Quiver
Move back and forth very rapidly;
The candle flickered
Shiver
A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
Quiver
Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
The city pulsated with music and excitement
Shiver
A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
Shiver
A spindle.
Shiver
The act of shivering or trembling.
Shiver
To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
All the groundWith shivered armor strown.
Shiver
To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
There shiver shafts upon shields thick.
The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms.
Shiver
To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
Prometheus is laidOn icy Caucasus to shiver.
The man that shivered on the brink of sin,Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
Shiver
To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Shiver
Reflex shaking caused by cold or fear or excitement
Shiver
An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
A frisson of surprise shot through him
Shiver
Tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
Shiver
Shake, as from cold;
The children are shivering--turn on the heat!
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