(เว'เวอะ) vi.,n. (การ) แกว่งไปมา,แกว่งไกว,โซเซ,โอนเอนไปมา,วอกแวก,ลังเล,หวั่นไหว,ไม่มั่นคง,สงสัย,ผันแปร,แปรปรวน,ผู้โบก,เครื่องดัดผม,ผู้ดัดผม, See also:waverer n. waveringly adv.
[v.] (lōlē) EN:waver ; hesitate ; vacillate ; be irresolute ; be uncertain ; be indecisive FR: hésiter ; changer d'avis comme une girouette ; tourner à tous les vents ; tourner au moindre vent
[うごく, ugoku] (v5k,vi) (1) to move; to stir; to shift; to shake; to swing; (2) to operate; to run; to go; to work; (3) to be touched; to be influenced; (4) to change; to vary; to fluctuate; to waver; (5) (as 動かぬ, 動かない, etc.) certain; factual; (6) to be transferred; (P) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Waver \Wa"ver\, n. [From {Wave}, or {Waver}, v.]
A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Waver \Wa"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wavered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wavering}.] [OE. waveren, from AS. w[ae]fre wavering,
restless. See {Wave}, v. i.]
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1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other;
hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
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With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
--Ld. Berners.
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Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror
to all evil speakers against dignities. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be
undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
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Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --Heb. x.
23.
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In feeble hearts, propense enough before
To waver, or fall off and join with idols. --Milton.
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Syn: To reel; totter; vacillate. See {Fluctuate}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waver
n 1: someone who communicates by waving
2: the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in
his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {falter},
{faltering}]
3: the act of moving back and forth [syn: {waver}, {flutter},
{flicker}]
v 1: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;
"Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn:
{hesitate}, {waver}, {waffle}]
2: be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering" [syn:
{falter}, {waver}]
3: move hesitatingly, as if about to give way [syn: {falter},
{waver}]
4: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern;
"the line on the monitor vacillated" [syn: {fluctuate},
{vacillate}, {waver}]
5: move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered"
[syn: {flicker}, {waver}, {flitter}, {flutter}, {quiver}]
6: sway to and fro [syn: {waver}, {weave}]
7: give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or
frequency [syn: {quaver}, {waver}]
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