vibrate

From Latin vibrātus, perfect passive participle of vibrō (“agitate, set in tremulous motion”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vaɪˈbɹeɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ.bɹeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

vibrate (third-person singular simple present vibrates, present participle vibrating, simple past and past participle vibrated)

1. (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
2. (intransitive) To resonate.

   Her mind was vibrating with excitement.

3. (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.

   to vibrate a sword or a staff

4. (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.

   a pendulum vibrating seconds

5. (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
   • Holder

     Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may […] impress a swift, tremulous motion.

   • Tennyson

     Star to star vibrates light.

vibrate (uncountable)

1. The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.

   Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.

• vibrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vibrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• vrbaite

vibrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of vibrare
2. second-person plural imperative of vibrare
3. feminine plural of vibrato

• brevità, trabevi

vibrāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of vibrō