vibration

«vibration» in Mova's school dictionary: A quick small shaking movement backwards and forwards — 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

noun (a vibration, vibrations)

meaning for a pupil

1) A quick small shaking movement backwards and forwards. tree →

2) In science, a movement that makes sound or travels through a material. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, sound is made by vibrations that travel through air, water or solids to our ears; louder sounds have bigger vibrations and higher sounds have faster vibrations. In everyday life you feel vibrations from trains, music or a buzzing phone. Earthquakes send vibrations through the ground. Phrases: feel the vibration, sound vibrations, vibration of the string.

examples

• I felt the vibration of the train through the floor. tree →
• Sound is caused by vibrations. tree →
• The earthquake's vibrations shook the houses. tree →
• Faster vibrations give a higher pitch. tree →
• The phone's vibration woke me up. tree →
• Snakes can feel vibrations in the ground. tree →

note

Countable: a vibration, vibrations; sometimes uncountable for the general idea. Comes from "vibrate". In science: bigger vibration = louder; faster vibration = higher pitch.

In the corpora

• Snakes have no outer ears and hear little of sounds in the air, but they feel vibrations through the ground and their jaws.
• Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect from a leaf or a raindrop.
• Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.
• Sound is a wobble, or vibration, passed on through air, water or solid things.
• A bigger vibration makes a louder sound; a faster vibration makes a higher sound.

Trees and pragmatics

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