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# wobble

«wobble» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move unsteadily from side to side, as if about to fall** — 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 (wobble, wobbles, wobbled, wobbling); noun (a wobble, wobbles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To wobble is to move unsteadily from side to side, as if about to fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#m1)

2) A wobble is an unsteady movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#m2)

3) To wobble can mean to feel unsure or not confident for a moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, a wobbly chair, ladder or loose tooth wobbles; wobbly things should be fixed or not stood on. Learning to ride a bike, children wobble at first. In science, a spinning top wobbles as it slows down. In stories, jelly wobbles. Phrases: «wobbly tooth», «have a wobble», «wobble on a bike».

### examples

- The jelly wobbled on the plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x1)
- My front tooth is wobbling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x2)
- I wobbled a lot when I first rode my bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x3)
- Don't stand on the wobbly chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x4)
- The table wobbles because one leg is short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x5)
- The top wobbled and then fell over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x6)
- She had a wobble before her solo but sang beautifully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x7)
- The tower of blocks began to wobble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wobble/#x8)

### note

Past form: wobbled. Adjective: wobbly (wobblier, wobbliest). «Have a wobble» (British) means feel nervous or unsure for a moment. Safety: never climb on wobbly furniture.

### In the corpora

- [Vibrato is a controlled wobble in the voice that singers use on purpose, different from a nervous shake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/16/)
- [A plane flying over or a camera wobble can mean another take, so many takes do not mean bad acting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/10/)
- [In a solid like a wooden block the particles are locked in place and only wobble, so it keeps its shape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/1/)
- [A solid keeps its own shape because its particles are held in fixed places and only wobble.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/5/)
- [Dad builds a bookcase without reading the instructions, and it wobbles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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