vibrate

Meanings

1. To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
2. To resonate.
3. To brandish; to swing to and fro.
4. To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
5. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
6. To please or impress someone.
7. To use vibrato.
8. To pleasure someone using a vibrator.

1. The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.

1. Vibrating with (something).

Etymology

The adjective (then also used as a participle) is first attested in 1420, in Middle English, the verb in 1620; partly from Middle English vibrat(e) (“reverberant”), partly directly borrowed from Latin vibrātus, perfect passive participle of vibrō (“to agitate, set in tremulous motion”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”) or *weyb-.