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quiver

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This guy quivers at the thought of >0%?

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Quick take

an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of quiver gathered in one view.

noun

an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"

noun

a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

noun

case for holding arrows

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quiver.

noun

case for holding arrows

verb

shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"

See also: quake, palpitate

verb

move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"

See also: pulsate, beat

Example sentences

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This guy quivers at the thought of >0%?

2

"Just being aware of a state that doesn't have a 0% state income tax makes me quiver".

3

Agreed, I still have insults a plenty in my quiver.

4

Learning to recognize and deal with this is another thing to store in one's experience quiver.

5

They're gonna make you quiver and sweat and if you can still solve their stupid brainteaser maybe they'll give you the honor of working with them.

6

I'm an archer: you want as many arrows as fit in the quiver, and as far as more wood, well, we've switched to carbon fiber shafts for a reason.

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- it's a good exercise, gave him another arrow in his programming quiver and gives people who prefer python the option to use it in python rather than ruby.

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It's a tool in the quiver, and the reason TLS stacks don't tend to have them is not because they are not valuable, but probably because the developers weren't any good at unit testing.

9

The information should be free to the public that paid for it. You can sit here and quiver over national security or how some "know better than others" and how they can be trusted with information that the public can't. But at the end of the day that is all verbal excriment, tax dollar paid information is property of the tax payers and anyone that argues against that is living with their head in the sand.

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"A recent acquisition of digital wallet company Venmo gave it another key arrow in the quiver: The promise to extend one-click payments across its entire portfolio.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use quiver in a sentence?

This guy quivers at the thought of >0%?

What does quiver mean?

an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"

What part of speech is quiver?

quiver is commonly used as noun, verb.