Vibrate
verb
To move back and forth quickly.
The building started to vibrate during the earthquake.
Often appears as...
- vibrate with excitement
- vibrate rapidly
verb
To cause something to shake or move in a pattern of movement or sound.
The loud music caused the windows to vibrate.
Often appears as...
- vibrate with sound
- machine vibrate
verb
To signal or notify by a vibrating motion, often used in electronic devices.
My cellphone vibrates every time I get a new message.
Often appears as...
- phone on vibrate
- vibrate mode
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In sound production, to produce sound by resonating or causing to resonate.
The guitar strings vibrate to create sound.
Often appears as...
- vibrate the air
- resonate
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To move back and forth quickly.
The building started to vibrate during the earthquake.
Often appears as...
- vibrate with excitement
- vibrate rapidly
verb
To cause something to shake or move in a pattern of movement or sound.
The loud music caused the windows to vibrate.
Often appears as...
- vibrate with sound
- machine vibrate
verb
To signal or notify by a vibrating motion, often used in electronic devices.
My cellphone vibrates every time I get a new message.
Often appears as...
- phone on vibrate
- vibrate mode
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In sound production, to produce sound by resonating or causing to resonate.
The guitar strings vibrate to create sound.
Often appears as...
- vibrate the air
- resonate
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Vibrate often refers to a sensation felt through touch, not just visible motion.
I could feel the floor vibrate under my feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Cause of Vibration
Identify the cause like machinery or natural events that make objects vibrate.
The passing train made the dishes vibrate in the cupboard.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Describe how strong the vibrating motion is using adverbs like 'slightly' or 'violently.'
The engine vibrate slightly when it's about to stall.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Vibrate often refers to a sensation felt through touch, not just visible motion.
I could feel the floor vibrate under my feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Cause of Vibration
Identify the cause like machinery or natural events that make objects vibrate.
The passing train made the dishes vibrate in the cupboard.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Describe how strong the vibrating motion is using adverbs like 'slightly' or 'violently.'
The engine vibrate slightly when it's about to stall.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Vibrate often refers to a sensation felt through touch, not just visible motion.
I could feel the floor vibrate under my feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Cause of Vibration
Identify the cause like machinery or natural events that make objects vibrate.
The passing train made the dishes vibrate in the cupboard.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Describe how strong the vibrating motion is using adverbs like 'slightly' or 'violently.'
The engine vibrate slightly when it's about to stall.
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How whales breathe,...
And so they vibrate that and send it out. Small-toothed whales also have air sacks; they're all over their heads, so it's like they're airheads. They use this to capture as much air as they can to take down with them when they're diving, because when you dive, pressures increase, and that decreases the volume of air you have available. But more importantly,
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Face-to-Face with a...
she was really trying to say and then this one time she did this deep guttural jackhammer sound she rolled upside down on her back and she did this book of goop goop goop goop really deep and I could feel it vibrate through my whole body and I was like oh I'm about to get hit you know she's upset now and what had happened was another leopard seal
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Carl Joshua Ncube:...
years old you know what they got him for his birthday a wheelchair okay they got him no they got him a wheelchair and they put spin on it and they said no it wasn't a wheelchair it was a massage chair which I was like yeah right who gives a 94 year old anything that vibrates for their
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,
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Why don't oil and water...
than known stars in the universe. Now, all of these molecules are in constant motion, moving, vibrating, and rotating. What prevents almost all of those molecules from just flying out of the glass are the attractive interactions between molecules. The strength of the interactions
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String theory - Brian...
idea of string theory deep inside any of these particles there is something else there's something else is this dancing filament of energy it looks like a vibrating string that's where the idea of string theory comes from and just like the vibrating strings that you just
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The chemistry of cold...
between particles at the molecular level. This scale is so small that there are more water molecules in a single glass than there are known stars in the universe. And all of these trillions of molecules are constantly moving, vibrating and rotating at different rates.
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Why do whales sing? -...
when we exhale, causing them to vibrate. Baleen whales have a U-shaped fold of tissue between their lungs and their large inflatable organs called laryngeal sacs. We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs
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How brass instruments...
What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune. The musician's skillful manipulation of every part of the process from lungs, to lips, to the mouthpiece,
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Bees Kill A Giant Hornet...
surrounded by vibrating bodies the Hornet at the core of the bball begins to overheat the bees have the advantage a heat tolerance to degrees above that
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How whales breathe,...
And so they vibrate that and send it out. Small-toothed whales also have air sacks; they're all over their heads, so it's like they're airheads. They use this to capture as much air as they can to take down with them when they're diving, because when you dive, pressures increase, and that decreases the volume of air you have available. But more importantly,
Video examples
Face-to-Face with a...
she was really trying to say and then this one time she did this deep guttural jackhammer sound she rolled upside down on her back and she did this book of goop goop goop goop really deep and I could feel it vibrate through my whole body and I was like oh I'm about to get hit you know she's upset now and what had happened was another leopard seal
Video examples
Carl Joshua Ncube:...
years old you know what they got him for his birthday a wheelchair okay they got him no they got him a wheelchair and they put spin on it and they said no it wasn't a wheelchair it was a massage chair which I was like yeah right who gives a 94 year old anything that vibrates for their
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,
Video examples
Why don't oil and water...
than known stars in the universe. Now, all of these molecules are in constant motion, moving, vibrating, and rotating. What prevents almost all of those molecules from just flying out of the glass are the attractive interactions between molecules. The strength of the interactions
Video examples
String theory - Brian...
idea of string theory deep inside any of these particles there is something else there's something else is this dancing filament of energy it looks like a vibrating string that's where the idea of string theory comes from and just like the vibrating strings that you just
Video examples
The chemistry of cold...
between particles at the molecular level. This scale is so small that there are more water molecules in a single glass than there are known stars in the universe. And all of these trillions of molecules are constantly moving, vibrating and rotating at different rates.
Video examples
Why do whales sing? -...
when we exhale, causing them to vibrate. Baleen whales have a U-shaped fold of tissue between their lungs and their large inflatable organs called laryngeal sacs. We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs
Video examples
How brass instruments...
What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune. The musician's skillful manipulation of every part of the process from lungs, to lips, to the mouthpiece,
Video examples
Bees Kill A Giant Hornet...
surrounded by vibrating bodies the Hornet at the core of the bball begins to overheat the bees have the advantage a heat tolerance to degrees above that
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Quote examples
Isabelle Adjani
French Actress
For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.
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Laurie Halse Anderson
American Writer
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
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Ant Anstead
English Celebrity
You know when you just get around someone and they just vibrate at a really good level? You can't put your finger on it but you meet these people in your life, they walk into the room as a stranger and you just go, 'Whoa. They've got it.
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Sam Yagan
American Businessman
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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Edward Witten
American Mathematician
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
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Donal Logue
Canadian Actor
I feel like I'm really lucky because I get to sometimes maybe vibrate at a frequency that's a little deeper and darker than people anticipate.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Mickey Hart
American Musician
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
American Clergyman
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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Isabelle Adjani
French Actress
For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.
Quote examples
Laurie Halse Anderson
American Writer
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
Quote examples
Ant Anstead
English Celebrity
You know when you just get around someone and they just vibrate at a really good level? You can't put your finger on it but you meet these people in your life, they walk into the room as a stranger and you just go, 'Whoa. They've got it.
Quote examples
Sam Yagan
American Businessman
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
Quote examples
Edward Witten
American Mathematician
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
Quote examples
Donal Logue
Canadian Actor
I feel like I'm really lucky because I get to sometimes maybe vibrate at a frequency that's a little deeper and darker than people anticipate.
Quote examples
Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Quote examples
Mickey Hart
American Musician
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.
Quote examples
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
American Clergyman
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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Charles Dickens
English Novelist
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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