different between wobble vs warble

English

Etymology

From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?bl?/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Noun

wobble (plural wobbles)

1. An unsteady motion.
2. A tremulous sound.

3. (music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep
4. (genetics) A variation in the third codon that codes for a specific aminoacid

Synonyms

• (unsteady motion): jiggle, quiver, shake, tremble
• (tremulous sound): quaver, tremble, tremolo, vibrato

Translations

Verb

wobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled)

1. (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.

2. (intransitive) To tremble or quaver.

3. (intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.

4. (transitive) To cause to wobble.

Synonyms

• (move with an uneven or rocking motion): judder, shake, shudder, tremble
• (quaver): quaver, quiver, tremble
• (vacillate): falter, vacillate, waffle, waver
• (cause to wobble): jiggle, rock, shake, wiggle

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• beblow

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??bl?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?l

Etymology 1

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Verb

warble (third-person singular simple present warbles, present participle warbling, simple past and past participle warbled)

1. (transitive) To modulate a tone's frequency.
2. (transitive) To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
3. (transitive) To cause to quaver or vibrate.
4. (intransitive) To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

Synonyms

• (to modulate a tone's frequency): trill

Derived terms

• warbler
• warbly

Translations

Noun

warble (countable and uncountable, plural warbles)

1. The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
2. (military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.

Etymology 2

From Middle English werble (at least for the noun), from Frankish *werbel (mole cricket), cognate to Walloon waerbea.

Noun

warble (plural warbles)

1. A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
2. A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.

Derived terms

• warble fly

Translations

Anagrams

• bawler