wobble
pronunciation
How to pronounce wobble in British English:
UK [ˈwɒbl]
How to pronounce wobble in American English:
US [ˈwɑːbl]
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- Noun:
- an unsteady rocking motion
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- Verb:
- move unsteadily
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- tremble or shake
Word Origin
- wobble
- wobble: see wave
- wobble (v.)
- 1650s, wabble, probably from Low German wabbeln "to wobble;" cognate with Old Norse vafla "hover about, totter," related to vafra "move unsteadily," from Proto-Germanic *wab- "to move back and forth," perhaps from PIE *webh- "to weave" (see waver). Form with -o- is from 1851. Related: Wobbled; wobbling. The noun is attested from 1690s.
Example
- 1. Most likely , the central bank will first allow the yuan to wobble by up to 0.5 % each day .
- 2. Even a small misunderstanding between the riders over the direction in which they want to go can cause the bicycle to wobble worryingly or spin out of control .
- 3. A decent wobble , though , requires a massive planet , so the wobble method does not favour the discovery of smaller , earth-sized objects .
- 4. Radial velocity , also known as the doppler wobble technique , involves searching for wobbles in a star 's light that indicate the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet .
- 5. The radial velocity approach involves looking for a wobble in a star 's motion caused by the slight gravitational pull of an orbiting planet .