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vibratory

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vi·brate  (vbrt)
v. vi·brat·ed, vi·brat·ing, vi·brates
v.intr.
1. To move back and forth or to and fro, especially rhythmically and rapidly. See Synonyms at swing.
2. To feel a quiver of emotion.
3. To shake or move with or as if with a slight quivering or trembling motion: "Even as the film moved . . . to the more deadly fields of Vietnam, old hatreds vibrated in me" (Loudon Wainwright).
4. To produce a sound; resonate.
5. To fluctuate or waver in making choices; vacillate.
v.tr.
1. To cause to tremble or quiver.
2. To cause to move back and forth rapidly.
3. To produce (sound) by vibration.

[Latin vibrre, vibrt-; see weip- in Indo-European roots.]

vibra·tive, vibra·tory (-br-tôr, -tr) adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.vibratory - moving very rapidly to and fro or up and downvibratory - moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down; "the vibrating piano strings"
moving - in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts of the machine"
Translations
vibratory [ˈvaɪbrətərɪ] ADJvibratorio
vibratory
adjvibrierend, Vibrations-


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And she was conscious of having been looked at a great deal, in rather a furtive manner, from beneath a pair of well-marked horizontal eyebrows, with a glance that seemed somehow to have caught the vibratory influence of the voice.
It is these atoms which, by their vibratory motion, produce both light and heat in the universe.
At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.
 
 
 
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