waverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ.və(ɹ)/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ.vɚ/
  • 韻: -eɪvə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: waiver

動詞

waver (三人称単数 現在形 wavers, 現在分詞 wavering, 過去形および過去分詞形 wavered)

1. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

   Flowers wavered in the breeze.

   • 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles

     With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.

2. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
3. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
4. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.

   His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.

5. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
   • 1903, Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date:

     ...and that when a man was in the wrong his courage wavered, and his nerves became unsteady, and so he couldn't fight to advantage and was easily overcome.

   • 2014, Jacob Steinberg, "Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian, 9 March 2014:

     Although they believe they can overhaul their 2-0 deficit, they cannot afford to be as lethargic as this at Camp Nou, and the time is surely approaching when Manuel Pellegrini's faith in Martín Demichelis wavers.

6. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.

   Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Earth (Priority: Earth):

     Javik: Do not waver. Victory is never won without difficult choices.
     Shepard: I'll do whatever it takes. I didn't come this far to back down.

関連する語

• wave

名詞

waver (複数形 wavers)

1. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
2. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.

   I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.

   The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers.

   Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.

3. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
4. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
5. (UK, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
   • 1813, John Farey, General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire:

     50 to 80 Wavers or Saplings, on each acre

参考

• waiver

参照

• waver at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “waver”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.