| vibist |
a musician who plays the vibraphone. |
| vibraharp |
see "vibraphone." |
| vibrancy |
the quality or appearance of being full of energy; liveliness. |
| vibrant |
full of energy or constant activity as if vibrating or pulsing. [3 definitions] |
| vibraphone |
a percussion instrument similar to a marimba but with metal instead of wooden bars and electrically operated resonators that sustain the tone and produce a vibrato. |
| vibrate |
to move back and forth very rapidly and steadily; oscillate. [6 definitions] |
| vibratile |
of, pertaining to, or characterized by vibration. [3 definitions] |
| vibration |
an act or instance of vibrating. [4 definitions] |
| vibrationless |
combined form of vibration. |
| vibrato |
a vibrating or pulsating effect produced with the voice or on a musical instrument by slight and rapid changes in pitch. |
| vibratoless |
combined form of vibrato. |
| vibrator |
someone or something that vibrates or causes vibration. [3 definitions] |
| vibratory |
of, pertaining to, or causing vibration. [2 definitions] |
| viburnum |
any of various shrubs or trees related to honeysuckle, such as the cranberry bush or snowball, that usu. have clusters of small white flowers and red or black berrylike fruit. |
| vicar |
in the Anglican Church, a parish priest who receives a salary but not the tithes of the parish, or who acts in place of a rector. [3 definitions] |
| vicarage |
a vicar's residence. [2 definitions] |
| vicar apostolic |
in the Roman Catholic Church, a titular bishop who serves in a district without a hierarchy or see. |
| vicar-general |
an administrative aide to a bishop or other ecclesiastical officer in a church. [2 definitions] |
| vicarious |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like. [4 definitions] |
| vice1 |
an immoral or evil act; wickedness. [5 definitions] |
| vice2 |
variant of "vise," a tool used to grip objects by means of two jawlike parts that are usu. moved together or apart by a screw or lever. |