dither

Speech parts

1. dither - Noun

2. dither - Verb

Meaning

an excited state of agitation

make a fuss; be agitated

act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

flap fuss pother tizzy dally twitter ado haw quail state waffle piddle boggle dawdle delay
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Antonyms

chase bolt dart gallop boogie lope
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Hypernyms

niggle agitation fret fuss

Phrases with the word

in a dither all of a dither dither about dither over dither fish

Anagrams

thider thirde

Examples

You must not dither - swim like you're running through a minefield. Lewis Pugh

he was in a dither Source: Internet

there was a terrible flap about the theft Source: Internet

An audio signal of very low level (with respect to the bit depth of the ADC) sampled without dither sounds extremely distorted and unpleasant. Source: Internet

Note that dither can only increase the resolution of a sampler, it cannot improve the linearity, and thus accuracy does not necessarily improve. Source: Internet

While democracies dither, China is silently undermining the roots of democracy throughout the world like a river systematically erodes the bank—until even the mightiest tree must fall. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ditheistic ditheistical dithematic dither about dither fish dither over