vibrate

«vibrate» in Mova's school dictionary: To move quickly and gently backwards and forwards or from… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (vibrate, vibrates, vibrated, vibrating)

meaning for a pupil

To move quickly and gently backwards and forwards or from side to side, many times a second; to shake slightly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, sound is made when something vibrates, like a guitar string, a drum skin or our vocal cords; the vibrations travel through air to our ears. Faster vibrations make a higher sound. In everyday life, phones vibrate when a message comes. Phrases: vibrate quickly, phone on vibrate, vibrate with sound.

examples

• The guitar string vibrates when you pluck it. tree →
• My phone vibrated in my pocket. tree →
• Put your hand on your throat and feel it vibrate when you hum. tree →
• The windows vibrated when the truck went by. tree →
• Faster vibrating makes a higher note. tree →
• The drum skin vibrates to make sound. tree →
• “Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like thunder. tree →

note

Regular verb: vibrated, vibrating. The noun is "vibration". Science fact: all sounds come from vibrations; sound cannot travel through empty space because there is nothing to vibrate.

In the corpora

• The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played.
• The idea that we swallow spiders in our sleep is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping people, who vibrate and breathe.
• Every sound is made by something vibrating — moving quickly back and forth.
• Touch your throat while you hum and you can feel your voice box vibrating.
• A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vibrate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.