Usually means: Shake or tremble in speaking.
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  1. quaver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quaver: Merriam-Webster
  3. quaver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quaver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quaver: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quaver: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quaver, quaver: Wordnik
  8. quaver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quaver: Wiktionary
  10. quaver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quaver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quaver: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quaver, quaver: Dictionary.com
  14. quaver (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quaver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quaver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quaver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quaver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quaver: Rhymezone
  20. Quaver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quaver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quaver: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quaver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quaver: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. quaver: Legal dictionary

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  1. quaver: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. quaver: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quaver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quaver: The Folk File
  3. quaver: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quaver)

▸ noun:  A trembling shake.
▸ noun:  A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
▸ noun:  (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
▸ verb:  To shake in a trembling manner.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To utter quaveringly.

Similar:
waver, warble, trill, eighth note, quaverer, quave, tremor, trembling, wobble, quaking, more...

Opposite:
trill, shake

Phrases:
quaver rest, opposite of quaver, more...

Adjectives:
slight, least, tremulous, last, first, dotted, second, acquiescent, faint, high, semi

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Similar:
waver, warble, trill, eighth note, quaverer, quave, tremor, trembling, wobble, quaking, more...

Opposite:
trill, shake

Phrases:
quaver rest, opposite of quaver, more...

Adjectives:
slight, least, tremulous, last, first, dotted, second, acquiescent, faint, high, semi

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke, more...



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