vibrate
IPA: vˈaɪbreɪt
noun
- The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
verb
- (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- (intransitive) To resonate.
- (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.
- (transitive) To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- (transitive) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To please or impress someone.
- (intransitive, music) To use vibrato.
- (transitive, slang) To pleasure someone using a vibrator.
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Examples of "vibrate" in Sentences
- And here I thought he had the phone set on "vibrate" or what one priest I know refers to as "stun" LOL
- One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
- I could sit and listen and hear him deep in the earth, feel his call vibrate through my body, and I was close, so close.
- The technology that makes a cell phone vibrate is the same technology that provides more natural movements to prosthetic limbs.
- (I know I don't even have to mention common-sense courtesies like keeping the boom box volume at a dull roar and setting cell phones to "vibrate," hmmm?)
- They have a "vibrate" function for a reason, and the last thing I want to hear when I'm watching the teaser trailer for Slither II is your otherwise incredibly clever and geekishly sexy ring tone.
- For the heroine's despair comes from feeling not that she will never fall "under another influence," but, less passively (and less idiomatically), that she will never "vibrate" (as in resonate) to such an influence — in the full sense of sympathetic vibration.
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