quiver vs movement

movement vs quiver

quiver and movement both are nouns.

quiver is a verb but movement is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quiver	Yes	No	Yes	No
movement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, movement is a hypernym of quiver; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than quiver:

quiver: the act of vibrating
movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Other hypernyms of quiver include motility, motion, move.

quiver (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of vibrating	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
case for holding arrows	the act of changing the location of something
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
a shaky motion	the act of changing location from one place to another
	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
	a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
	a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
	a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
	an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
	a euphemism for defecation

quiver (verb)	movement (verb)
shake with fast, tremulous movements
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
move back and forth very rapidly

Difference between quiver and movement

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