Quiver vs Reflex - What's the difference?
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(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing , Act I, Scene I, line 271:
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 39:
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
(obsolete)
Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
(mathematics) A multidigraph.
(archaic) Nimble, active.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II , Act III, Scene II, line 281:
To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
* 1593 , William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus , Act II, Scene III, line 12:
* Addison
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
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(linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language
(obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Bent, turned back or reflected.
* Sir M. Hale
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
* 1878 , James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry , MacMillan,
* 1895 , David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry , page 7:
* 1958 , Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher , v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
* 1991 , B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings , North-Holland, page 145:
* 2001 , Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings , Springer, page 195:
* 2004 , Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings , part 3, Springer, page 117:
(photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder, allowing the photographer to see it up to the moment of exposure.
to bend, turn back or reflect
to respond to a stimulus
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Quiver is a related term of reflex.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between quiver and reflex
is that quiver is (obsolete) while reflex is (obsolete) reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.As nouns the difference between quiver and reflex
is that quiver is (weaponry) a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun while reflex is an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.As adjectives the difference between quiver and reflex
is that quiver is (archaic) nimble, active while reflex is bent, turned back or reflected.As verbs the difference between quiver and reflex
is that quiver is to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver while reflex is to bend, turn back or reflect.quiver
English
(wikipedia quiver)Etymology 1
From (etyl) quiver, from (etyl) quiveir, from (etyl) ).Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Köcher” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005). Replaced early modern (etyl) cocker. More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- Arrows were carried in quiver , called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
- He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) , from (etyl) *cwiferAdjective
(en adjective)- there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) quiveren, probably from the adjective.Verb
(en verb)- The birds chaunt melody on every bush, / The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, / The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind / And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.
- And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
reflex
English
(wikipedia reflex)Noun
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- Yon gray is not the morning's eye, / 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
- On the depths of death there swims / The reflex of a human face.
Adjective
(en adjective)- the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
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- A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex .
- An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute''; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be ''obtuse''; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be ''reflex'' or ''convex .
- If the reflex' region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is ' reflex .
- A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
- We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex .
- P'' denotes a polygon and ''r the number of reflex vertices.