Definition of wobble in English:

wobble

verb ˈwɒb(ə)lˈwɑbəl

1Move or cause to move unsteadily from side to side.
摇晃，摇摆
no object the table wobbles where the leg is too short
桌子短腿的那一边摇摇晃晃。
with object enthusiastic thumping may wobble the lectern
Example sentencesExamples
- He wavered and wobbled once back on his feet.
- In fact, the earthquake was so powerful that the Earth may have even wobbled on its axis.
- He pushed to the side, legs wobbling, and his hands found the door.
- By slow, painful steps I clambered to my feet, wobbling uncertainly on the rough wooden floor.
- A tall blonde in a skimpy outfit came sauntering over to him, unsteady and wobbling on her heels.
- David raised his eyebrows, and his skull ring wobbled precariously.
- I started to cry, my bottom lip wobbling all over the place.
- He also kept wobbling back and forth, like he couldn't stand still.
- She then stood, up, wobbled dangerously and crashed back down into the sand.
- Resolved to fetch another drink, she slowly got up, her legs wobbling only slightly.
- My legs wobbled slightly, just adjusting to the floor beneath my feet.
- Standing up, she tugged down at the tiny skirt, wobbling uncertainly in her tall heels.
- I wobbled this way and that before I recovered my center of balance again.
- I didn't even wobble in my heels.
- It then started wobbling from side to side and he became frightened.
- Stubbornly she thrust herself upwards into a standing position and wobbled there uncertainly as her body protested.
- It was the day the world wobbled on its axis.
- He wobbled for a second before steadying himself again.
- Matthew wobbled dangerously for a moment as a result and almost pulled her down onto the ice.
Synonyms
rock, move unsteadily, jiggle, sway, see-saw, teeter
shake, vibrate
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move unsteadily in a particular direction.
  晃悠
  they wobble around on their bikes
  他们骑着自行车四处晃悠。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She looked over to him as he wobbled his way across the roof.
  He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar.
  Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant.
  Mayberry's town drunk Otis Campbell weaved and wobbled his way into television history.
  The little animal then staggered, wobbled and limped around for a few seconds before turning for the last time to his rescuers and wandering off back into nature.
  I walked straight up towards Brandon, who wobbled down the hall in the opposite direction.
  But it's wobbling in the direction of the same package leisure industry which gave us the gym.
  Nate wobbled up the stairs and looked into Suzan's bedroom.
  She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room.
  Synonyms
  teeter, totter, stagger, walk unsteadily, lurch
2. 1.2no object (of the voice) vary slightly in pitch; quaver.
  her voice wobbled dangerously, but she brought it under control
  她的声音抖得厉害，但她控制住了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her smile was nervous and her voice wobbled a little, but the information she gave made up for any weakness in presentation.
  My voice wobbles and sounds weak and whiny, I don't like it.
  I wasn't sure, but I think I heard his voice wobble a bit.
  "Drink it, " she said, her voice wobbling a little but confident.
  So we're given the impression of Connor's leg shaking and his voice wobbling.
  Rubenstein's voice wobbles and her dark eyes well up.
  Her voice wobbled as it left her mouth - she was terrified.
  ‘A little shaken,’ she admitted, wincing when her voice came out wobbling.
  ‘Not much,’ she answered, her voice wobbling on the last syllable.
  She met his eyes, her voice wobbled and she was shaking.
  She tried to sound reprimanding, but her voice cracked and wobbled.
  ‘You cannot harm us,’ said the priestess of Elle, though her hands shook and her voice wobbled as well.
  Her voice was wobbling a bit, from suppressed tears.
  ‘Jackson was… Jackson was a long time ago,’ Mrs. Davis whispered, voice wobbling.
  She tried to sound firm when she spoke, but her voice wobbled pathetically in her own ears.
  Listening to him, we all understand that radio was his destiny, but the very first time he went on air his voice did wobble.
  His hands were still wrapped around the bars, but he dropped to his knees, his voice wobbled as he struggled to control himself.
  Though his voice wobbled regularly, there was something in its fragility that suited his music, and the audience were only too ready to forgive him, given that there was a certain charm in his anxiety.
  Each time I hit a bump, my voice would wobble with the impact - I liked to ride along the bumpy parts of the road and try to keep my voice as even as possible.
  Synonyms
  tremble, shake, quiver, quaver, waver
  rare quave
3. 1.3no object Waver between different courses of action; vacillate.
  〈喻〉摇摆不定
  he is beginning to wobble on the issue
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal.
  He has wavered, wobbled, and wiggled about the war since it began.
  Synonyms
  waver, hesitate, vacillate, dither, shilly-shally, be undecided, be uncertain, be indecisive, be unable to make up one's mind, keep changing one's mind, yo-yo
  Scottish swither
  informal blow hot and cold

noun ˈwɒb(ə)lˈwɑbəl

1An unsteady movement from side to side.
摇晃，摇摆
the handlebars developed a wobble
Example sentencesExamples
- The actual length is unpredictable as the wobble can be affected by many variables, including tectonic movement.
- However, he lost his momentum during the flip, and his carefully executed spin turned into a wobble, sending him crashing into the floor below.
- It basically notes a wobble in a star caused by the gravity of the orbiting planet.
- Just like a small wobble in the system shouldn't make that much of a difference.
- So we might surmise that a larger wobble should have a proportionally greater effect on the Earth's shape.
- Astronomers are able to detect the presence of a planet by examining a slight wobble in the motion of the star caused by the gravitational pull of the planet.
- Panna cotta is a scalded, flavoured cream, set to a perfect wobble, turned out on to a plate.
- Leaning into a 90 mph wind, a graph charts every movement, every wobble, in a trajectory that resembles the Alps.
- I swear I saw him taking a sneaky blast from a small bottle of something warming when he thought no-one was watching, and he had a distinct wobble to his gait.
- It's a program called the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program, and what you're looking for is stars whose motion encompasses a wobble.
- Like a top, once its even spin turns into a reckless wobble, these things can be very, very hard to right once they fly out of control.
- Russia's Svetlana Khorkina did not qualify for any final, suffering a break on uneven bars, wobbles on balance beam, and a hands-down landing on floor exercise.
- Georgia, which placed third last year, had a few wobbles on balance beam in the final rotation but held on to second place.
- Milutin M. Milankovich, a Serbian mathematician, developed the idea that the Earth's rotational wobbles and orbital deviations have combined to affect in a cyclic way global climatic changes.
- At the Keck Observatory, it is now possible to measure extremely subtle star wobbles, so even smaller planets should soon turn up.
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
- There also appear to be harmonic steering wobbles which occur at speed.
- Hence the initial wobble in the map of my homeward progress, showing me turning right, not left, out of the White Swan's doors.
- Since the field is uniform, the object appears to react to it as if it were a point in the palm of her hand - that is, it teeters and wobbles, but the force is distributed along the field, nonetheless.
- More sensitive than any others in the world, they are able to measure effects never before measured, such as the rotation accompanying the waves from earthquakes and small wobbles in the Earth's rotation axis.
Synonyms
unsteady movement, totter, teeter, sway
rocking, swaying, shaking
1. 1.1 A variation of pitch in the voice.
  a caricature of the operatic wobble
  Example sentencesExamples
  With a slight wobble in his voice, he said his prostate cancer had spread to other parts of his body.
  The high notes are no longer there, everything below mezzo-forte is weak, and the stability of the voice betrayed by occasional wobbles.
  Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble.
  Far more troubling is the fearsome wobble in her voice that she only occasionally brings under control.
  It was obvious that she was trying to take her mind off of things; her voice was low as not to betray the wobble that they all heard anyways.
  One of the children, aged about six kept making a noise. It was an extremely high pitched tone with pronounced wobble, loud and sustained, intermittently for an hour or so.
  Synonyms
  tremor, quiver, quaver, shaking, trembling
  technical vibrato
2. 1.2 A moment of indecision or instability.
  摇摆不定的时刻
  the only serious wobble of the campaign
  Example sentencesExamples
  I understand that the wobble is not yours but a secondary, sympathetic wobble to Tony Blair's.
  Other candidates either showed no detectable wobble, or else the results were indeterminate.
  The party campaign had a wobble on Monday when a strange scheduling decision produced an inevitable picture in Castlebar.
  These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble.
  Nonetheless, his concerns were serious enough to warrant a wobble: He understood the need to win the support of the Arab world, he just hadn't realised how little progress had been made.
  Asked about the now-famous spring wobble, she says she ‘and lots of the people who feel close to the PM, who support him and believe what he is doing, rallied round’.
  It has to be said that the wobbles have abated considerably over the past two weeks.
  It's cheering to find that Cole & Son, maker of wallpaper and paint since 1873, is not only back in business after a serious wobble in the late 1990s but is working flat out to meet demand.

Origin

Mid 17th century (earlier as wabble): of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse vafla 'waver'; related to the verb wave.

A German word first used in English in the mid 17th century. Wobble is related to wave (Old English) and waver (Middle English) which come from Old Norse, and until the mid 19th century was generally spelled wabble. To throw a wobbly is to have a fit of temper or panic. This is a recent expression recorded only from the 1960s, first of all in New Zealand, although throw a wobbler appears in the 1930s, in a US dictionary of underworld and prison slang. Wave did not come to be used for hair until the mid 19th century and the expression to make waves dates only from the 1960s. Mexican wave describing a wavelike effect when spectators stand, raise their arms, and sit again in successive crowd sections, originated at the World Cup football competition held in Mexico City in 1986.

Rhymes

bobble, Chernobyl, cobble, gobble, hobble, knobble, nobble, squabble

Definition of wobble in US English:

wobble

verbˈwɑbəlˈwäbəl

[no object]

1Move unsteadily from side to side.
摇晃，摇摆
the table wobbles where the leg is too short
桌子短腿的那一边摇摇晃晃。
Example sentencesExamples
- I didn't even wobble in my heels.
- He also kept wobbling back and forth, like he couldn't stand still.
- Standing up, she tugged down at the tiny skirt, wobbling uncertainly in her tall heels.
- Resolved to fetch another drink, she slowly got up, her legs wobbling only slightly.
- He wavered and wobbled once back on his feet.
- By slow, painful steps I clambered to my feet, wobbling uncertainly on the rough wooden floor.
- In fact, the earthquake was so powerful that the Earth may have even wobbled on its axis.
- It then started wobbling from side to side and he became frightened.
- I started to cry, my bottom lip wobbling all over the place.
- A tall blonde in a skimpy outfit came sauntering over to him, unsteady and wobbling on her heels.
- Matthew wobbled dangerously for a moment as a result and almost pulled her down onto the ice.
- David raised his eyebrows, and his skull ring wobbled precariously.
- My legs wobbled slightly, just adjusting to the floor beneath my feet.
- Stubbornly she thrust herself upwards into a standing position and wobbled there uncertainly as her body protested.
- It was the day the world wobbled on its axis.
- He pushed to the side, legs wobbling, and his hands found the door.
- He wobbled for a second before steadying himself again.
- I wobbled this way and that before I recovered my center of balance again.
- She then stood, up, wobbled dangerously and crashed back down into the sand.
Synonyms
rock, move unsteadily, jiggle, sway, see-saw, teeter
1. 1.1with object Cause to move unsteadily from side to side.
  摇晃，摇摆
  Example sentencesExamples
  Midway through round 3 Frazier caught Ellis with a brutal left hook to the chin, Ellis is wobbled for a brief second and you see the wind taken from his sail.
  Once upon a time, when a band was super-catchy, whole throngs of scenesters were known to wobble a leg up and down in time to the music.
2. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction Move unsteadily in a particular direction.
  晃悠
  they wobble around on their bikes
  他们骑着自行车四处晃悠。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The little animal then staggered, wobbled and limped around for a few seconds before turning for the last time to his rescuers and wandering off back into nature.
  Mayberry's town drunk Otis Campbell weaved and wobbled his way into television history.
  I walked straight up towards Brandon, who wobbled down the hall in the opposite direction.
  She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room.
  Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant.
  Nate wobbled up the stairs and looked into Suzan's bedroom.
  She looked over to him as he wobbled his way across the roof.
  He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar.
  But it's wobbling in the direction of the same package leisure industry which gave us the gym.
  Synonyms
  teeter, totter, stagger, walk unsteadily, lurch
3. 1.3 (of the voice) tremble; quaver.
  （声音等）颤抖；颤动
  her voice wobbled dangerously, but she brought it under control
  她的声音抖得厉害，但她控制住了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Jackson was… Jackson was a long time ago,’ Mrs. Davis whispered, voice wobbling.
  I wasn't sure, but I think I heard his voice wobble a bit.
  Her voice wobbled as it left her mouth - she was terrified.
  Though his voice wobbled regularly, there was something in its fragility that suited his music, and the audience were only too ready to forgive him, given that there was a certain charm in his anxiety.
  She tried to sound firm when she spoke, but her voice wobbled pathetically in her own ears.
  Her voice was wobbling a bit, from suppressed tears.
  So we're given the impression of Connor's leg shaking and his voice wobbling.
  ‘A little shaken,’ she admitted, wincing when her voice came out wobbling.
  "Drink it, " she said, her voice wobbling a little but confident.
  Listening to him, we all understand that radio was his destiny, but the very first time he went on air his voice did wobble.
  Rubenstein's voice wobbles and her dark eyes well up.
  ‘You cannot harm us,’ said the priestess of Elle, though her hands shook and her voice wobbled as well.
  Each time I hit a bump, my voice would wobble with the impact - I liked to ride along the bumpy parts of the road and try to keep my voice as even as possible.
  She tried to sound reprimanding, but her voice cracked and wobbled.
  ‘Not much,’ she answered, her voice wobbling on the last syllable.
  His hands were still wrapped around the bars, but he dropped to his knees, his voice wobbled as he struggled to control himself.
  She met his eyes, her voice wobbled and she was shaking.
  My voice wobbles and sounds weak and whiny, I don't like it.
  Her smile was nervous and her voice wobbled a little, but the information she gave made up for any weakness in presentation.
  Synonyms
  tremble, shake, quiver, quaver, waver
4. 1.4 Hesitate or waver between different courses of action; vacillate.
  〈喻〉摇摆不定
  he is beginning to wobble on the issue
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has wavered, wobbled, and wiggled about the war since it began.
  It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal.
  Synonyms
  waver, hesitate, vacillate, dither, shilly-shally, be undecided, be uncertain, be indecisive, be unable to make up one's mind, keep changing one's mind, yo-yo

nounˈwɑbəlˈwäbəl

1An unsteady movement from side to side.
摇晃，摇摆
Example sentencesExamples
- So we might surmise that a larger wobble should have a proportionally greater effect on the Earth's shape.
- Georgia, which placed third last year, had a few wobbles on balance beam in the final rotation but held on to second place.
- Just like a small wobble in the system shouldn't make that much of a difference.
- There also appear to be harmonic steering wobbles which occur at speed.
- Hence the initial wobble in the map of my homeward progress, showing me turning right, not left, out of the White Swan's doors.
- It's a program called the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program, and what you're looking for is stars whose motion encompasses a wobble.
- Russia's Svetlana Khorkina did not qualify for any final, suffering a break on uneven bars, wobbles on balance beam, and a hands-down landing on floor exercise.
- I swear I saw him taking a sneaky blast from a small bottle of something warming when he thought no-one was watching, and he had a distinct wobble to his gait.
- Like a top, once its even spin turns into a reckless wobble, these things can be very, very hard to right once they fly out of control.
- Panna cotta is a scalded, flavoured cream, set to a perfect wobble, turned out on to a plate.
- At the Keck Observatory, it is now possible to measure extremely subtle star wobbles, so even smaller planets should soon turn up.
- The actual length is unpredictable as the wobble can be affected by many variables, including tectonic movement.
- Milutin M. Milankovich, a Serbian mathematician, developed the idea that the Earth's rotational wobbles and orbital deviations have combined to affect in a cyclic way global climatic changes.
- More sensitive than any others in the world, they are able to measure effects never before measured, such as the rotation accompanying the waves from earthquakes and small wobbles in the Earth's rotation axis.
- Leaning into a 90 mph wind, a graph charts every movement, every wobble, in a trajectory that resembles the Alps.
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
- It basically notes a wobble in a star caused by the gravity of the orbiting planet.
- Astronomers are able to detect the presence of a planet by examining a slight wobble in the motion of the star caused by the gravitational pull of the planet.
- However, he lost his momentum during the flip, and his carefully executed spin turned into a wobble, sending him crashing into the floor below.
- Since the field is uniform, the object appears to react to it as if it were a point in the palm of her hand - that is, it teeters and wobbles, but the force is distributed along the field, nonetheless.
Synonyms
unsteady movement, totter, teeter, sway
1. 1.1 A tremble or quaver in the voice.
  声音颤抖；颤动
  Example sentencesExamples
  Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble.
  With a slight wobble in his voice, he said his prostate cancer had spread to other parts of his body.
  Far more troubling is the fearsome wobble in her voice that she only occasionally brings under control.
  The high notes are no longer there, everything below mezzo-forte is weak, and the stability of the voice betrayed by occasional wobbles.
  It was obvious that she was trying to take her mind off of things; her voice was low as not to betray the wobble that they all heard anyways.
  One of the children, aged about six kept making a noise. It was an extremely high pitched tone with pronounced wobble, loud and sustained, intermittently for an hour or so.
  Synonyms
  tremor, quiver, quaver, shaking, trembling
2. 1.2 A moment of hesitation or vacillation.
  摇摆不定的时刻
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has to be said that the wobbles have abated considerably over the past two weeks.
  Other candidates either showed no detectable wobble, or else the results were indeterminate.
  Asked about the now-famous spring wobble, she says she ‘and lots of the people who feel close to the PM, who support him and believe what he is doing, rallied round’.
  It's cheering to find that Cole & Son, maker of wallpaper and paint since 1873, is not only back in business after a serious wobble in the late 1990s but is working flat out to meet demand.
  These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble.
  Nonetheless, his concerns were serious enough to warrant a wobble: He understood the need to win the support of the Arab world, he just hadn't realised how little progress had been made.
  The party campaign had a wobble on Monday when a strange scheduling decision produced an inevitable picture in Castlebar.
  I understand that the wobble is not yours but a secondary, sympathetic wobble to Tony Blair's.

Origin

Mid 17th century (earlier as wabble): of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse vafla ‘waver’; related to the verb wave.

词汇	wobble
释义	Definition of wobble in English: wobble verb ˈwɒb(ə)lˈwɑbəl 1Move or cause to move unsteadily from side to side. 摇晃，摇摆 no object the table wobbles where the leg is too short 桌子短腿的那一边摇摇晃晃。 with object enthusiastic thumping may wobble the lectern Example sentencesExamples He wavered and wobbled once back on his feet. In fact, the earthquake was so powerful that the Earth may have even wobbled on its axis. He pushed to the side, legs wobbling, and his hands found the door. By slow, painful steps I clambered to my feet, wobbling uncertainly on the rough wooden floor. A tall blonde in a skimpy outfit came sauntering over to him, unsteady and wobbling on her heels. David raised his eyebrows, and his skull ring wobbled precariously. I started to cry, my bottom lip wobbling all over the place. He also kept wobbling back and forth, like he couldn't stand still. She then stood, up, wobbled dangerously and crashed back down into the sand. Resolved to fetch another drink, she slowly got up, her legs wobbling only slightly. My legs wobbled slightly, just adjusting to the floor beneath my feet. Standing up, she tugged down at the tiny skirt, wobbling uncertainly in her tall heels. I wobbled this way and that before I recovered my center of balance again. I didn't even wobble in my heels. It then started wobbling from side to side and he became frightened. Stubbornly she thrust herself upwards into a standing position and wobbled there uncertainly as her body protested. It was the day the world wobbled on its axis. He wobbled for a second before steadying himself again. Matthew wobbled dangerously for a moment as a result and almost pulled her down onto the ice. Synonyms rock, move unsteadily, jiggle, sway, see-saw, teeter shake, vibrate 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move unsteadily in a particular direction. 晃悠 they wobble around on their bikes 他们骑着自行车四处晃悠。 Example sentencesExamples She looked over to him as he wobbled his way across the roof. He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar. Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant. Mayberry's town drunk Otis Campbell weaved and wobbled his way into television history. The little animal then staggered, wobbled and limped around for a few seconds before turning for the last time to his rescuers and wandering off back into nature. I walked straight up towards Brandon, who wobbled down the hall in the opposite direction. But it's wobbling in the direction of the same package leisure industry which gave us the gym. Nate wobbled up the stairs and looked into Suzan's bedroom. She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room. Synonyms teeter, totter, stagger, walk unsteadily, lurch 1.2no object (of the voice) vary slightly in pitch; quaver. her voice wobbled dangerously, but she brought it under control 她的声音抖得厉害，但她控制住了。 Example sentencesExamples Her smile was nervous and her voice wobbled a little, but the information she gave made up for any weakness in presentation. My voice wobbles and sounds weak and whiny, I don't like it. I wasn't sure, but I think I heard his voice wobble a bit. "Drink it, " she said, her voice wobbling a little but confident. So we're given the impression of Connor's leg shaking and his voice wobbling. Rubenstein's voice wobbles and her dark eyes well up. Her voice wobbled as it left her mouth - she was terrified. ‘A little shaken,’ she admitted, wincing when her voice came out wobbling. ‘Not much,’ she answered, her voice wobbling on the last syllable. She met his eyes, her voice wobbled and she was shaking. She tried to sound reprimanding, but her voice cracked and wobbled. ‘You cannot harm us,’ said the priestess of Elle, though her hands shook and her voice wobbled as well. Her voice was wobbling a bit, from suppressed tears. ‘Jackson was… Jackson was a long time ago,’ Mrs. Davis whispered, voice wobbling. She tried to sound firm when she spoke, but her voice wobbled pathetically in her own ears. Listening to him, we all understand that radio was his destiny, but the very first time he went on air his voice did wobble. His hands were still wrapped around the bars, but he dropped to his knees, his voice wobbled as he struggled to control himself. Though his voice wobbled regularly, there was something in its fragility that suited his music, and the audience were only too ready to forgive him, given that there was a certain charm in his anxiety. Each time I hit a bump, my voice would wobble with the impact - I liked to ride along the bumpy parts of the road and try to keep my voice as even as possible. Synonyms tremble, shake, quiver, quaver, waver rare quave 1.3no object Waver between different courses of action; vacillate. 〈喻〉摇摆不定 he is beginning to wobble on the issue Example sentencesExamples It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal. He has wavered, wobbled, and wiggled about the war since it began. Synonyms waver, hesitate, vacillate, dither, shilly-shally, be undecided, be uncertain, be indecisive, be unable to make up one's mind, keep changing one's mind, yo-yo Scottish swither informal blow hot and cold noun ˈwɒb(ə)lˈwɑbəl 1An unsteady movement from side to side. 摇晃，摇摆 the handlebars developed a wobble Example sentencesExamples The actual length is unpredictable as the wobble can be affected by many variables, including tectonic movement. However, he lost his momentum during the flip, and his carefully executed spin turned into a wobble, sending him crashing into the floor below. It basically notes a wobble in a star caused by the gravity of the orbiting planet. Just like a small wobble in the system shouldn't make that much of a difference. So we might surmise that a larger wobble should have a proportionally greater effect on the Earth's shape. Astronomers are able to detect the presence of a planet by examining a slight wobble in the motion of the star caused by the gravitational pull of the planet. Panna cotta is a scalded, flavoured cream, set to a perfect wobble, turned out on to a plate. Leaning into a 90 mph wind, a graph charts every movement, every wobble, in a trajectory that resembles the Alps. I swear I saw him taking a sneaky blast from a small bottle of something warming when he thought no-one was watching, and he had a distinct wobble to his gait. It's a program called the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program, and what you're looking for is stars whose motion encompasses a wobble. Like a top, once its even spin turns into a reckless wobble, these things can be very, very hard to right once they fly out of control. Russia's Svetlana Khorkina did not qualify for any final, suffering a break on uneven bars, wobbles on balance beam, and a hands-down landing on floor exercise. Georgia, which placed third last year, had a few wobbles on balance beam in the final rotation but held on to second place. Milutin M. Milankovich, a Serbian mathematician, developed the idea that the Earth's rotational wobbles and orbital deviations have combined to affect in a cyclic way global climatic changes. At the Keck Observatory, it is now possible to measure extremely subtle star wobbles, so even smaller planets should soon turn up. It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles. There also appear to be harmonic steering wobbles which occur at speed. Hence the initial wobble in the map of my homeward progress, showing me turning right, not left, out of the White Swan's doors. Since the field is uniform, the object appears to react to it as if it were a point in the palm of her hand - that is, it teeters and wobbles, but the force is distributed along the field, nonetheless. More sensitive than any others in the world, they are able to measure effects never before measured, such as the rotation accompanying the waves from earthquakes and small wobbles in the Earth's rotation axis. Synonyms unsteady movement, totter, teeter, sway rocking, swaying, shaking 1.1 A variation of pitch in the voice. a caricature of the operatic wobble Example sentencesExamples With a slight wobble in his voice, he said his prostate cancer had spread to other parts of his body. The high notes are no longer there, everything below mezzo-forte is weak, and the stability of the voice betrayed by occasional wobbles. Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble. Far more troubling is the fearsome wobble in her voice that she only occasionally brings under control. It was obvious that she was trying to take her mind off of things; her voice was low as not to betray the wobble that they all heard anyways. One of the children, aged about six kept making a noise. It was an extremely high pitched tone with pronounced wobble, loud and sustained, intermittently for an hour or so. Synonyms tremor, quiver, quaver, shaking, trembling technical vibrato 1.2 A moment of indecision or instability. 摇摆不定的时刻 the only serious wobble of the campaign Example sentencesExamples I understand that the wobble is not yours but a secondary, sympathetic wobble to Tony Blair's. Other candidates either showed no detectable wobble, or else the results were indeterminate. The party campaign had a wobble on Monday when a strange scheduling decision produced an inevitable picture in Castlebar. These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble. Nonetheless, his concerns were serious enough to warrant a wobble: He understood the need to win the support of the Arab world, he just hadn't realised how little progress had been made. Asked about the now-famous spring wobble, she says she ‘and lots of the people who feel close to the PM, who support him and believe what he is doing, rallied round’. It has to be said that the wobbles have abated considerably over the past two weeks. It's cheering to find that Cole & Son, maker of wallpaper and paint since 1873, is not only back in business after a serious wobble in the late 1990s but is working flat out to meet demand. Origin Mid 17th century (earlier as wabble): of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse vafla 'waver'; related to the verb wave. A German word first used in English in the mid 17th century. Wobble is related to wave (Old English) and waver (Middle English) which come from Old Norse, and until the mid 19th century was generally spelled wabble. To throw a wobbly is to have a fit of temper or panic. This is a recent expression recorded only from the 1960s, first of all in New Zealand, although throw a wobbler appears in the 1930s, in a US dictionary of underworld and prison slang. Wave did not come to be used for hair until the mid 19th century and the expression to make waves dates only from the 1960s. Mexican wave describing a wavelike effect when spectators stand, raise their arms, and sit again in successive crowd sections, originated at the World Cup football competition held in Mexico City in 1986. Rhymes bobble, Chernobyl, cobble, gobble, hobble, knobble, nobble, squabble Definition of wobble in US English: wobble verbˈwɑbəlˈwäbəl [no object] 1Move unsteadily from side to side. 摇晃，摇摆 the table wobbles where the leg is too short 桌子短腿的那一边摇摇晃晃。 Example sentencesExamples I didn't even wobble in my heels. He also kept wobbling back and forth, like he couldn't stand still. Standing up, she tugged down at the tiny skirt, wobbling uncertainly in her tall heels. Resolved to fetch another drink, she slowly got up, her legs wobbling only slightly. He wavered and wobbled once back on his feet. By slow, painful steps I clambered to my feet, wobbling uncertainly on the rough wooden floor. In fact, the earthquake was so powerful that the Earth may have even wobbled on its axis. It then started wobbling from side to side and he became frightened. I started to cry, my bottom lip wobbling all over the place. A tall blonde in a skimpy outfit came sauntering over to him, unsteady and wobbling on her heels. Matthew wobbled dangerously for a moment as a result and almost pulled her down onto the ice. David raised his eyebrows, and his skull ring wobbled precariously. My legs wobbled slightly, just adjusting to the floor beneath my feet. Stubbornly she thrust herself upwards into a standing position and wobbled there uncertainly as her body protested. It was the day the world wobbled on its axis. He pushed to the side, legs wobbling, and his hands found the door. He wobbled for a second before steadying himself again. I wobbled this way and that before I recovered my center of balance again. She then stood, up, wobbled dangerously and crashed back down into the sand. Synonyms rock, move unsteadily, jiggle, sway, see-saw, teeter 1.1with object Cause to move unsteadily from side to side. 摇晃，摇摆 Example sentencesExamples Midway through round 3 Frazier caught Ellis with a brutal left hook to the chin, Ellis is wobbled for a brief second and you see the wind taken from his sail. Once upon a time, when a band was super-catchy, whole throngs of scenesters were known to wobble a leg up and down in time to the music. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction Move unsteadily in a particular direction. 晃悠 they wobble around on their bikes 他们骑着自行车四处晃悠。 Example sentencesExamples The little animal then staggered, wobbled and limped around for a few seconds before turning for the last time to his rescuers and wandering off back into nature. Mayberry's town drunk Otis Campbell weaved and wobbled his way into television history. I walked straight up towards Brandon, who wobbled down the hall in the opposite direction. She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room. Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant. Nate wobbled up the stairs and looked into Suzan's bedroom. She looked over to him as he wobbled his way across the roof. He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar. But it's wobbling in the direction of the same package leisure industry which gave us the gym. Synonyms teeter, totter, stagger, walk unsteadily, lurch 1.3 (of the voice) tremble; quaver. （声音等）颤抖；颤动 her voice wobbled dangerously, but she brought it under control 她的声音抖得厉害，但她控制住了。 Example sentencesExamples ‘Jackson was… Jackson was a long time ago,’ Mrs. Davis whispered, voice wobbling. I wasn't sure, but I think I heard his voice wobble a bit. Her voice wobbled as it left her mouth - she was terrified. Though his voice wobbled regularly, there was something in its fragility that suited his music, and the audience were only too ready to forgive him, given that there was a certain charm in his anxiety. She tried to sound firm when she spoke, but her voice wobbled pathetically in her own ears. Her voice was wobbling a bit, from suppressed tears. So we're given the impression of Connor's leg shaking and his voice wobbling. ‘A little shaken,’ she admitted, wincing when her voice came out wobbling. "Drink it, " she said, her voice wobbling a little but confident. Listening to him, we all understand that radio was his destiny, but the very first time he went on air his voice did wobble. Rubenstein's voice wobbles and her dark eyes well up. ‘You cannot harm us,’ said the priestess of Elle, though her hands shook and her voice wobbled as well. Each time I hit a bump, my voice would wobble with the impact - I liked to ride along the bumpy parts of the road and try to keep my voice as even as possible. She tried to sound reprimanding, but her voice cracked and wobbled. ‘Not much,’ she answered, her voice wobbling on the last syllable. His hands were still wrapped around the bars, but he dropped to his knees, his voice wobbled as he struggled to control himself. She met his eyes, her voice wobbled and she was shaking. My voice wobbles and sounds weak and whiny, I don't like it. Her smile was nervous and her voice wobbled a little, but the information she gave made up for any weakness in presentation. Synonyms tremble, shake, quiver, quaver, waver 1.4 Hesitate or waver between different courses of action; vacillate. 〈喻〉摇摆不定 he is beginning to wobble on the issue Example sentencesExamples He has wavered, wobbled, and wiggled about the war since it began. It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust, but also flagrantly illegal. Synonyms waver, hesitate, vacillate, dither, shilly-shally, be undecided, be uncertain, be indecisive, be unable to make up one's mind, keep changing one's mind, yo-yo nounˈwɑbəlˈwäbəl 1An unsteady movement from side to side. 摇晃，摇摆 Example sentencesExamples So we might surmise that a larger wobble should have a proportionally greater effect on the Earth's shape. Georgia, which placed third last year, had a few wobbles on balance beam in the final rotation but held on to second place. Just like a small wobble in the system shouldn't make that much of a difference. There also appear to be harmonic steering wobbles which occur at speed. Hence the initial wobble in the map of my homeward progress, showing me turning right, not left, out of the White Swan's doors. It's a program called the Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program, and what you're looking for is stars whose motion encompasses a wobble. Russia's Svetlana Khorkina did not qualify for any final, suffering a break on uneven bars, wobbles on balance beam, and a hands-down landing on floor exercise. I swear I saw him taking a sneaky blast from a small bottle of something warming when he thought no-one was watching, and he had a distinct wobble to his gait. Like a top, once its even spin turns into a reckless wobble, these things can be very, very hard to right once they fly out of control. Panna cotta is a scalded, flavoured cream, set to a perfect wobble, turned out on to a plate. At the Keck Observatory, it is now possible to measure extremely subtle star wobbles, so even smaller planets should soon turn up. The actual length is unpredictable as the wobble can be affected by many variables, including tectonic movement. Milutin M. Milankovich, a Serbian mathematician, developed the idea that the Earth's rotational wobbles and orbital deviations have combined to affect in a cyclic way global climatic changes. More sensitive than any others in the world, they are able to measure effects never before measured, such as the rotation accompanying the waves from earthquakes and small wobbles in the Earth's rotation axis. Leaning into a 90 mph wind, a graph charts every movement, every wobble, in a trajectory that resembles the Alps. It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles. It basically notes a wobble in a star caused by the gravity of the orbiting planet. Astronomers are able to detect the presence of a planet by examining a slight wobble in the motion of the star caused by the gravitational pull of the planet. However, he lost his momentum during the flip, and his carefully executed spin turned into a wobble, sending him crashing into the floor below. Since the field is uniform, the object appears to react to it as if it were a point in the palm of her hand - that is, it teeters and wobbles, but the force is distributed along the field, nonetheless. Synonyms unsteady movement, totter, teeter, sway 1.1 A tremble or quaver in the voice. 声音颤抖；颤动 Example sentencesExamples Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble. With a slight wobble in his voice, he said his prostate cancer had spread to other parts of his body. Far more troubling is the fearsome wobble in her voice that she only occasionally brings under control. The high notes are no longer there, everything below mezzo-forte is weak, and the stability of the voice betrayed by occasional wobbles. It was obvious that she was trying to take her mind off of things; her voice was low as not to betray the wobble that they all heard anyways. One of the children, aged about six kept making a noise. It was an extremely high pitched tone with pronounced wobble, loud and sustained, intermittently for an hour or so. Synonyms tremor, quiver, quaver, shaking, trembling 1.2 A moment of hesitation or vacillation. 摇摆不定的时刻 Example sentencesExamples It has to be said that the wobbles have abated considerably over the past two weeks. Other candidates either showed no detectable wobble, or else the results were indeterminate. Asked about the now-famous spring wobble, she says she ‘and lots of the people who feel close to the PM, who support him and believe what he is doing, rallied round’. It's cheering to find that Cole & Son, maker of wallpaper and paint since 1873, is not only back in business after a serious wobble in the late 1990s but is working flat out to meet demand. These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble. Nonetheless, his concerns were serious enough to warrant a wobble: He understood the need to win the support of the Arab world, he just hadn't realised how little progress had been made. The party campaign had a wobble on Monday when a strange scheduling decision produced an inevitable picture in Castlebar. I understand that the wobble is not yours but a secondary, sympathetic wobble to Tony Blair's. Origin Mid 17th century (earlier as wabble): of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse vafla ‘waver’; related to the verb wave.
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