voice vs waver

voice and waver both are nouns.

voice and waver both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
voice	Yes	No	Yes	No
waver	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, waver is a hyponym of voice; that is, waver is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than voice:

voice: utter with vibrating vocal chords
waver: give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

Other hyponyms of voice include chirk, quaver.

voice (noun)	waver (noun)
a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated	the act of moving back and forth
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech	the act of pausing uncertainly
the ability to speak	someone who communicates by waving
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
expressing in coherent verbal form
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
(metonymy) a singer
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

voice (verb)	waver (verb)
give voice to	give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
utter with vibrating vocal chords	sway from side to side
	move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
	move back and forth very rapidly
	move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
	pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
	be unsure or weak

Difference between voice and waver

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