waver

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
2. (dated, intransitive) To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
7. (figuratively, intransitive) Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
8. (figuratively, intransitive) Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
9. (intransitive, obsolete) Followed by from: to deviate from a course; to stray, to wander.
10. (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) Of the wits: to become confused or unsteady; to reel.
11. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone or something) to move back and forth.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone) to begin to or show signs of weakening in resolve; also (rare), to weaken in resolve due to (something).

Noun

1. An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
2. (figuratively) A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
3. (figuratively) A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.

Noun

1. One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
2. A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
3. A tool used to make hair wavy.
4. (historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).

Noun

A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.

Concepts

hésiter

barguigner

vaciller

osciller

frémir

frissonner

bouger

trembler

secouer

remuer

scintiller

❇️

se déplacer

tisser

travailler

trembloter

varier

vibrer

cligner des yeux

😉

clignoter

croche

lanement

vacillation

être influencé

être touché

agiter

waver

balancer

battre

carquois

chanceler

changer

flotter

fluctuer

gaufre

hésitation

Synonymes

hesitate

vacillate

falter

sway

wobble

fluctuate

stagger

flicker

swing

flutter

tremble

quiver

shake

🫨

totter

oscillate

shiver

rock

🪨

quaver

be uncertain

waffle

🧇

dither

change

vary

irresolute

move

reel

be irresolute

wince

doubt

flitter

undulate

roll

hesitation

dilly-dally

wabble

flounder

operate

careen

vibrate

weave

stir

flap

teeter

shift

shilly shally

run

shilly-shally

faltering

hover

hang back

Traductions

vacilar

schwanken

vacillare

wankelen

wiebelen

aarzelen

waggelen

titubare

esitare

oscilar

zögern

vacilar

weifelen

zwichten

bibberen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈweɪ.və(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: waveren

Appartenant à ancien anglais: wǣfre

In summary

The verb is derived from Middle English waveren (“to move back and forth, swing; to move unsteadily, totter; to shake, tremble; to wander; (figurative) to be changeable or unstable; to deviate”), and then possibly:
* from Old English (compare Old English wǣfre (“flickering, quivering, wavering; active, nimble (?)”)), related to Old English wafian (“to wave”) from Proto-West Germanic *wabbjan (“to cause to weave; to entangle; to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wabjaną (“to cause to weave; to entangle; to wrap”); and/or
* from Old Norse vafra (“to move unsteadily, flicker”), probably related to vefa (“to weave”);
both from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Doublet of wave.
The noun is derived from the verb.