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# vibrate

«vibrate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move quickly and gently backwards and forwards or from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (vibrate, vibrates, vibrated, vibrating)

### meaning for a pupil

To move quickly and gently backwards and forwards or from side to side, many times a second; to shake slightly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science, sound is made when something vibrates, like a guitar string, a drum skin or our vocal cords; the vibrations travel through air to our ears. Faster vibrations make a higher sound. In everyday life, phones vibrate when a message comes. Phrases: vibrate quickly, phone on vibrate, vibrate with sound.

### examples

- The guitar string vibrates when you pluck it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x1)
- My phone vibrated in my pocket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x2)
- Put your hand on your throat and feel it vibrate when you hum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x3)
- The windows vibrated when the truck went by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x4)
- Faster vibrating makes a higher note. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x5)
- The drum skin vibrates to make sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x6)
- “Are you sure?” said Fionn in a voice that rumbled and vibrated like thunder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: vibrated, vibrating. The noun is "vibration". Science fact: all sounds come from vibrations; sound cannot travel through empty space because there is nothing to vibrate.

### In the corpora

- [The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/14/)
- [The idea that we swallow spiders in our sleep is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping people, who vibrate and breathe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/11/)
- [Every sound is made by something vibrating — moving quickly back and forth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/0/)
- [Touch your throat while you hum and you can feel your voice box vibrating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/1/)
- [A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vibrate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vibrate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.