different between shiver vs shiner

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel.

Verb

shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)

1. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
   • 1693, Thomas Creech, The thirteenth Satire of Juvenal

     The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.

2. (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

Derived terms

• ashiver
• shiverer
• shiver my timbers
• shivering owl

Translations

Noun

shiver (plural shivers)

1. The act of shivering.

   • But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

2. (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.^Wp

Translations

Derived terms

• send shivers down someone's spine
• shiver my timbers

See also

• frisson

Etymology 2

From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).

Noun

shiver (plural shivers)

1. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.

   • a shiver of their own loaf

3. (geology) A variety of blue slate.
4. (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
5. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
6. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A spindle.

Translations

Verb

shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)

1. To break into splinters or fragments.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 24

     But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.

   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Norton (2005), page 1034:

     he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 183:

     A whole series of fault lines radiated away from this Lisbon earthquake, all of them shivering the structures of traditional order.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain

Noun

shiver (plural shivers)

1. Collective noun for a group of sharks

Anagrams

• hivers, shrive

English

Etymology

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine +? -er. Compare Old English s??nere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?n'?(r), IPA^(key): /??a?n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(r)

Noun

shiner (plural shiners)

1. One who shines; a luminary.
2. One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
3. (colloquial) A black eye.
4. coon eyes
5. (slang, dated) A bright piece of money, especially a sovereign.
   • 1789, Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, London: H. Ranger, p. 30:

     She may be generally found in the fore part of the day at her lodgings above mentioned, where a brace of shiners will ensure you the possession of charms above their value, cent per cent.

6. Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
7. Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
8. The common silverfish, Lepisma.
9. (slang) A moonshiner.
10. A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.

    Synonym: convex

    • 2003, Jon Sharpe, Trailsman #258: Casino Carnage

      Fargo wasn't sure what difference it made if one gambler passed something to another, unless it was to be used in cheating, a shiner maybe. But nobody at that table would let a shiner pass.

11. (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hiners, Hirens, renshi, rhines, shrine