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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith

Meaning of "shivering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHIVERING

shivering  [ˈʃɪvərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHIVERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shivering is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SHIVERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shivering

Shivering is a bodily function in response to early hypothermia or just feeling cold in warm-blooded animals. When the core body temperature drops, the shivering reflex is triggered to maintain homeostasis. Muscle groups around the vital organs begin to shake in small movements, creating warmth by expending energy. Shivering can also be a response to a fever, as a person may feel cold. During fever the hypothalamic set point for temperature is raised. The increased set point causes the body temperature to rise, but also makes the patient feel cold until the new set point is reached. Rigor occurs because the patient's body is effectively shivering in a physiological attempt to increase body temperature to the new set point. Located in the posterior hypothalamus near the wall of the third ventricle is an area called the primary motor center for shivering. This area is normally inhibited by signals from the heat center in the anterior hypothalamic-preoptic area but is excited by cold signals from the skin and spinal cord. Therefore, this center becomes activated when the body temperature falls even a fraction of a degree below a critical temperature level.

Definition of shivering in the English dictionary

The definition of shivering in the dictionary is shaking; an attack of shivering.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHIVERING


catering
ˈkeɪtərɪŋ
considering
kənˈsɪdərɪŋ
covering
ˈkʌvərɪŋ
during
ˈdjʊərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
flavouring
ˈfleɪvərɪŋ
Havering
ˈheɪvərɪŋ
hoovering
ˈhuːvərɪŋ
hovering
ˈhɒvərɪŋ
livering
ˈlɪvərɪŋ
manoeuvring
məˈnuːvərɪŋ
manufacturing
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃərɪŋ
monitoring
ˈmɒnɪtərɪŋ
offering
ˈɒfərɪŋ
quavering
ˈkweɪvərɪŋ
quivering
ˈkwɪvərɪŋ
recovering
rɪˈkʌvərɪŋ
unwavering
ʌnˈweɪvərɪŋ
wallcovering
ˈwɔːlkʌvərɪŋ
wavering
ˈweɪvərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHIVERING

shiur
shiurim
shiv
Shiva
shivah
Shivaism
Shivaist
shivaree
shive
shiver
shiverer
shiveringly
shivers
shivery
shiviti
shivoo
shivved
shivving
Shizuoka
shizzle

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHIVERING

bring
civil engineering
electrical engineering
empowering
fingering
flattering
flowering
gathering
lettering
lowering
mechanical engineering
ordering
pioneering
power steering
rendering
scattering
steering
suffering
wandering
watering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of shivering in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHIVERING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shivering» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shivering

Translation of «shivering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHIVERING

Find out the translation of shivering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shivering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shivering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

发抖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escalofríos
570 millions of speakers

English

shivering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कांप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يرتجف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дрожь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tremores
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কন্কন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

frissons
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggigil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zittern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

震える
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

run
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடுக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुकडे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

titreme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

brividi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dreszcze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дрож
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frisoane
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ρίγος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bewing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frossa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjelving
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shivering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIVERING»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIVERING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shivering

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3 QUOTES WITH «SHIVERING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shivering.
1
Paul Harris
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
2
Og Mandino
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
3
Sydney Smith
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHIVERING»

Discover the use of shivering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shivering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shivering Sands
A young widow takes a job with an unusual family at their seaside estate hoping to find her sister who had disappeared in the same area of Kent.
Victoria Holt, 2013
2
Shivering World
Graysha Brady-Phillips moves to the planet Goddard, where she hopes colonists will find a cure for her genetic disorder even though genetic engineering has been banned for decades.
Kathy Tyers, 2004
3
Shivering: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Use in Literature HickoriesA great fire of hickory logs blazed on the wide hearth.ndash;Joseph A. Altsheler in The Guns of Bull Run.In consultation with the 'Carpenters' Union,' I had chosen a handle made of three narrow strips of hickory ...
‎2008
4
Annual Review of Nursing Research
Differentiation between stages 3 and 4 requires close observation, particularly when the patient is covered, as the trunk passively shakes the extremities during violent shivering. This shivering scale has been used in subsequent research with ...
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, 1993
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Human Thermal Environments: The Effects of Hot, Moderate, ...
Where there is a tendency for body temperature to fall, non-shivering thermogenesis (muscle tensing, feeling of stiffness and enhanced metabolism) will increase heat production. As the body temperature falls (skin, skin with core, or both) and ...
Ken Parsons, 2002
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Medical Physiology: Principles for Clinical Medicine
Because the limbs are part of the shell in the cold, trunk and neck muscles are preferentially recruited for shivering — the centralization of shivering — to help retain the heat produced during shivering within the body core; and the familiar ...
Rodney Rhoades, David R. Bell, 2009
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General Symptoms
This refers to a subjective feeling of cold which is accompanied by uncontrollable shivering and which cannot be improved with warmth. Disease causes, disease mechanisms: 1. Cold evils fettering the exterior Cold is a yin evil which causes ...
Philippe Sionneau, Lü Gang, 2000
8
Pediatric Anesthesia
potential trigger.195,196 One study in more than 1500 children undergoing general anesthesia found a surprisingly low shivering incidence of 3.5%.197 Risk factors for postoperative shivering in this study included the use of intravenous ...
Bruno Bissonnette, 2011
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Unabridged Dictionary of the Sensations "as If".
Zincum (Hg) Shivering Coldness. — Shaking of the whole body with shivering as if from cold, coming in paroxysms. Sulphuncum Acidum (Hg) Shivering Epigastrium. — Sensation as of shivering, starting from the stomach and spreading over ...
James William Ward, 1985
10
Essentials of Sea Survival
The intermittent muscle tremor associated with shivering will interfere with manual dexterity, making tasks requiring fine movement difficult. Furthermore, because both the protagonist and antagonist (flexor and extensor) muscles are ...
Frank Golden, Michael Tipton, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHIVERING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shivering is used in the context of the following news items.
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Kayaker, 62, lost on Cloquet River, found next morning shivering
Kayaker, 62, lost on Cloquet River, found next morning shivering, munched on by bugs. 'Day trip' takes chilly turn after Cloquet River kayaker fails to catch up ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jun 15»
2
Boy, 4, found soaked in urine and shivering pushing baby across …
The woman found the children and their other brother, aged two, soaked in urine and shivering with cold while their mum, who cannot be named for legal ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
3
Mother accused of mistreatment after police say toddler was found …
She had no blanket and was shivering; the outside temperature was 45 degrees, police told prosecutors. Officers brought the girl to their patrol car where the girl ... «OregonLive.com, May 15»
4
Utah forecast: A wet, shivering camel kind of weather for Wasatch
Here's your sign: a wet, shivering camel. OK, even on hump day, aka Wednesday, that's a metaphor. You won't find any Bactrian Desert beasties left to the mercy ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Apr 15»
5
Moritz Leitner Gives His Jacket to Shivering Mascot at Germany U21 …
Moritz Leitner giving his jacket to a cold mascot in the rain last night before the game vs England U21. pic.twitter.com/jemW6SPX7Z. — Troll Football ... «Bleacher Report, Apr 15»
6
Thiago Silva rescues shivering Lyon mascot
Thiago Silva rescues shivering Lyon mascot ... Silva shows he's a class act by giving his warm-up top to a shivering Lyon mascot ahead of their Ligue 1 clash. «BT Sport, Feb 15»
7
NHS shame as patients left shivering in bed for almost a week after …
STAFF on Ward 3 at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow had to resort to boiling kettles for showers and piling extra blankets on patients after the heating ... «Scottish Daily Record, Jan 15»
8
How Cold Weather Can Help You Lose Weight Without Exercising
Shivering muscles released another hormone, FGF21, that further boosted calorie burn. Around 50 grams of brown fat burned an additional 300 calories daily, ... «ABC News, Jan 15»
9
Feeling cold IS contagious, scientists find: Just looking at someone …
Just looking at somebody shivering is enough to make us feel cold, researchers have found. They discovered volunteers who watched videos of people putting ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
10
Shivering slush buckets, Batman
“I don't think I hit water yet,'' a shivering Hughes said as he was pulling on warm, dry clothes after sloshing into the water. “I jumped in, it was just like jumping ... «The Guardian Charlottetown, Jan 15»

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