English World dictionary. V. Neufeldt. 2014.
Wobble — (engl. to wobble steht für wackeln, taumeln, schwanken, schaukeln): Wobble Hypothese, für die These in der Genetik Wobblies, traditionelle Bezeichnung für die Industrial Workers of the World Wobble, sinusförmige Abweichung der spiralförmigen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
wobble — Ⅰ. wobble UK US /ˈwɒbl/ noun [C, usually singular] FINANCE, STOCK MARKET, ECONOMICS ► a short period of time when the value of something falls or it seems possible that it could fail: »Share prices have recovered from last autumn s wobble. »The… … Financial and business terms
Wobble — or wobbles can mean: * Wobble base pair, a type of basepair in genetics translation * Milankovitch wobble, the change in the axial tilt, axial precession and orbital eccentricity of the earth over long periods * Wobbler disease, also known as… … Wikipedia
wobble — (v.) 1650s, probably from Low Ger. wabbeln to wobble; cognate with O.N. vafla hover about, totter, related to vafra move unsteadily, from P.Gmc. *wab to move back and forth (see WAVER (Cf. waver)). The noun is attested from 1690s … Etymology dictionary
Wobble — Wob ble, v. i. See {Wabble}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wobble — teeter, totter, shimmy, quiver, shiver, shudder, quaver, quake, *shake, tremble, dither … New Dictionary of Synonyms
wobble — [v] stagger, quake be unsteady, careen, falter, flounder, lurch, oscillate, quiver, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, shimmy, stumble, sway, swing, teeter, totter, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, waver, weave, wiggle; concepts 150,152 … New thesaurus
wobble — ► VERB 1) move unsteadily from side to side. 2) (of the voice) tremble. 3) waver between different courses of action. ► NOUN ▪ a wobbling movement or sound. ORIGIN Germanic, related to WAVE(Cf. ↑wave) … English terms dictionary
wobble — [[t]wɒ̱b(ə)l[/t]] wobbles, wobbling, wobbled 1) VERB If something or someone wobbles, they make small movements from side to side, for example because they are unsteady. A gravitational wave made the spacecraft wobble... Just then, Bart returned … English dictionary
wobble — I UK [ˈwɒb(ə)l] / US [ˈwɑb(ə)l] verb Word forms wobble : present tense I/you/we/they wobble he/she/it wobbles present participle wobbling past tense wobbled past participle wobbled 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to rock slightly from side to… … English dictionary
