Waver

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.

   “Flowers wavered in the breeze.”

2. fiil To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.

   “[T]here vvere tvvo Channels, one on the North, another on the South, vvhere through the fiſher-men did vvander and vvauer vp to Norvvitch, and diuers parts of Suffolke and Norfolke, […]”

3. fiil To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.

   “Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down.”

4. fiil To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.

   “Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.”

5. fiil To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.

   “[…] I ſhall not much vvaver to affirm that thoſe vvords vvhich are made to intimate, as if they forbad all divorce but for adultery […] thoſe vvords tak'n circumſcriptly, […] are as much againſt plain equity, and the mercy of religion, […]”

6. fiil Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.

   “His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.”

7. fiil Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.

   “[U]nder the Roman empire, men's notions of mechanical relations became faint, wavered, and disappeared, […]”

8. fiil Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.

   “[T]he Englyſhe affaires (as you haue heard) within yͤ realme began to wauer, and waxe variable, whyche cauſed the Engliſhe capitaines, to be of diuerſe opinions.”

9. fiil Followed by from: to deviate from a course; to stray, to wander.
10. fiil Of the wits: to become confused or unsteady; to reel.

    “I am hungry, and I am vveary, and I cannot find him. / Keep my wits heaven, I feele 'em wavering, / O God my head.”

11. fiil To cause (someone or something) to move back and forth.

    “[I]f the Admirall ſhall happen to hull in the night: then to make a wauering light ouer his other light, wauering the light vpon a pole.”

12. fiil To cause (someone) to begin to or show signs of weakening in resolve; also (rare), to weaken in resolve due to (something).

    “Th'vnconſtant Barrons, vvauering euery houre, / The fierce encounter of this raging tyde, / No ſtrategem yet ſtrongly policied; […]”

13. isim An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.

    “No a bit butterflee on its silent waver, meeting the murmur of the straightforward bee.”

14. isim A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.

    “I hear the soldiers talk as I ride by, "There goes the old man. All's right." Not a waver, doubt, or hesitation when I order, and men march to certain death without a murmur if I call on them, because they know I value their lives as much as my own.”

15. isim A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
16. isim One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.

    “I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.”

17. isim A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
18. isim A tool used to make hair wavy.
19. isim In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
20. isim Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).
21. isim A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.

    “It is a very ordinary Copſe vvhich vvill not afford three or four Firſts, that is, Beſts; fourteen Seconds; tvvelve Thirds; eight VVavers, &c. according to vvhich proportions the ſizes of young Trees in Copſing are to ſucceed one another.”

22. özel isim A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.