wobble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɒbl̩/    美 /ˈwɑbl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unsteady motion.
    — The fat man walked down the street with a wobble.
  2. A tremulous sound.
    — There was a wobble on her high notes.
  3. A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep.
    — “I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars. A dubstep wobble arrives about halfway through like a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms. Swift’s career.
  4. A variation in the third nucleotide of a codon that codes for a specific aminoacid.
动词 v.
  1. To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro. intransitive
    — the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis
  2. To tremble or quaver. intransitive
    — The soprano's voice wobbled alarmingly.
  3. To vacillate in one's opinions. intransitive
    — I'm wobbling between the Liberals and the Greens.
  4. To cause to wobble. transitive
    — The boy wobbled the girl's bike.

词形变化

wobbles plural wabble alternative,archaic wobbles present,singular,third-person wobbling participle,present wobbled participle,past wobbled past wabble alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).
词源 2
From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), German wabbeln (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).
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