waver vs voice

waver and voice both are nouns.

waver and voice both are verbs.

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

As verbs, voice is a hypernym of waver; that is, voice is a word with a broader meaning than waver:

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

Other hypernyms of waver include sound, vocalise, vocalize.

waver (noun)	voice (noun)
the act of moving back and forth	a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
the act of pausing uncertainly	the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
someone who communicates by waving	the ability to speak
	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

waver (verb)	voice (verb)
give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency	give voice to
sway from side to side	utter with vibrating vocal chords
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 waver and voice

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