Definition of dither in English:

dither

verb ˈdɪðəˈdɪðər

[no object]

1Be indecisive.
犹豫不决
I can't bear people who dither
我受不了优柔寡断的人。
he was dithering about the election date
他拿不准选举的日子。
Example sentencesExamples
- Dibden Bay and Southampton have been delayed and they are dithering about Bathside.
- In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away.
- The longer that the government dithers, the deeper we get into debt.
- They dithered and faltered and could not get the roll-out of the leadership coup over to the public or even amongst themselves.
- Still, we dithered around with first one idea and then another.
- Time and again he dithered and dallied on the baseline.
- The government has been warned to stop dithering and delaying over its Crossrail plans for Kingston.
- While the government dithers, the awful record of deaths at work gets worse.
- Yet the CEOs and the Boards of Directors still dithered and their share prices were unshaken.
- Meanwhile, as she dithers, I put more and more things into boxes.
- We're still dithering over the Future Fund and talking of parking spare shares there.
- It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay.
- As the Government dithers on the matter, he said, cancer sufferers in Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Carlow are dying.
- The limited access to anti-retrovirals and national government's dithering further dims their future.
- And so Danny just stood in the background whilst the soldiers dithered around trying to make things safe.
- There must be no more discussion, delay or dithering on building this interceptor tunnel.
- While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it.
- While the Government dithers, the project continues to suffer mind-boggling cost escalation at the rate of Rs. 55 lakh a day.
- Because hanging around while someone dithers over their order was getting between him and his carefully crafted lifestyle.
- While the FDA dithers, the case against selling EC over the counter weakens by the day.
Synonyms
hesitate, falter, waver, teeter, vacillate, oscillate, fluctuate, change one's mind, be in two minds, be ambivalent, be indecisive, be unsure, be undecided
procrastinate, hang back, delay, stall, temporize, drag one's feet, dawdle, dally
British hum and haw, haver
Scottish swither
informal shilly-shally, dilly-dally, blow hot and cold, pussyfoot around, sit on the fence
2with object Add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals.
对（数字录音）进行噪声处理
Example sentencesExamples
- In order to test the actuation bandwidth, the reference signal was dithered with a signal of constant amplitude, swept in frequency.
- In fact what I had done was to put the AIFF file in Wavelab, used the change gain function and re-dithered the song.
1. 2.1 Display or print (a colour image) in such a way that it appears to contain more colours than are really available.
  〔计算机〕混色，抖色
  the easiest way to remove hot pixels is to dither the images
  Example sentencesExamples
  GIF may win out with the non-dithering, fewer color images while JPEG is excellent for dithered continuous tone images.
  Photoshop / ImageReady accomplishes this through dithering the image in one of three methods, selectable by the user: diffusion, pattern and noise.
  ‘The messy dithering of colours that occurs with JPEG compression is bad feng shui.’
  However, the dithering on the 24-bit photos we beamed over was very apparent thanks to the screen's low dot pitch.
  The three images are supposed to show the effects of quantization and dithering, but that's nearly impossible to see in this black-and-white image.

nounˈdɪðəˈdɪðər

1informal mass noun Indecisive behaviour.
〈非正式〉犹豫不决
after months of dither ministers had still not agreed
在犹豫了几个月之后，大臣们还是没有达成一致意见。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was entertaining to see them caught in a dither of priorities.
- Intel's obviously in a bit of a dither about this.
- The fresh wave of rhapsodic dither on the director's sociopolitical acuity was inevitable.
- Why all this dither about what's modern and what's not?
- Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away.
- ‘It is time the Government ended the dither and delay,’ Mr Burstow said.
- His moment of authority coming as it does after an evening of dither and doubt is a well thought out and crafted piece of acting.
- After what seemed like an eternity of debate and dither, Winters finally smashed his kick high and to the left of Gallacher.
2in singular A state of agitation.
颤抖；激动，兴奋
all of a dither, he prophesied instant chaos
他浑身颤抖，预言骚乱已是迫在眉睫。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Empress is in a dither about the sprinklers again.
- But still, the whole experience can send me into a tissy and a dither and you don't want Halley in either of those places.
- With Hong Kong in a dither, Shanghai is quickly gaining prominence as the gateway to China.
- Instead, the government opted for dither and funk.
- It's the day of the murder-mystery fundraising event and Colleen's all in a dither.
- In DXD mode, dither is selectable for stereo and surround monitors, but you must not use it.
- After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither.
- Mary charged out of the room in an obvious dither.
- Image processor using both dither and error diffusion to produce halftone images with less flicker and patterns
Synonyms
panic, state of fear, fluster

Derivatives

ditherer

nounˈdɪðərəˈdɪð(ə)rər

Everyone else's mandate for smooth evolution remains our ditherers ' charter.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such talk in my view has probably hurt the US in the UN since it gives ditherers and dissemblers there an excuse to continue doing so.
- Wait 13 months and I guess it's thoughtful review - wait 14 months to allow a review and people might start calling the guy a ditherer.
- But Jimmy Carter had a PhD and he was a hopeless ditherer.
- It is all too easy to dismiss him as a ditherer - though there are times when he deserves to be called one - but his success is without question, and potentially without parallel.

dithery

adjective ˈdɪðəriˈdɪð(ə)ri

I've never understood how anyone could be so dithery as to have no idea who to vote for.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ahead of them was another reception desk with another dithery, blonde receptionist behind it.
- I do not, however, think this subject is black and white… far too many grey areas - hence the somewhat dithery opinion.
- Things liven up, too, when Mr G appears, shaky and dithery in his stained white suit, having problems with his colostomy bag.
- And someone has obviously told Bertie to be more decisive, because he isn't nearly as dithery as he was before.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the dialect sense 'tremble, quiver'): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder¹.

Rhymes

hither, slither, swither, thither, whither, wither, zither

Definition of dither in US English:

dither

verbˈdɪðərˈdiT͟Hər

1no object Be indecisive.
犹豫不决
he was dithering about the election date
他拿不准选举的日子。
Example sentencesExamples
- The government has been warned to stop dithering and delaying over its Crossrail plans for Kingston.
- As the Government dithers on the matter, he said, cancer sufferers in Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Carlow are dying.
- While the government dithers, the awful record of deaths at work gets worse.
- Time and again he dithered and dallied on the baseline.
- While the FDA dithers, the case against selling EC over the counter weakens by the day.
- While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it.
- In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away.
- There must be no more discussion, delay or dithering on building this interceptor tunnel.
- And so Danny just stood in the background whilst the soldiers dithered around trying to make things safe.
- It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay.
- Yet the CEOs and the Boards of Directors still dithered and their share prices were unshaken.
- We're still dithering over the Future Fund and talking of parking spare shares there.
- Dibden Bay and Southampton have been delayed and they are dithering about Bathside.
- Because hanging around while someone dithers over their order was getting between him and his carefully crafted lifestyle.
- The limited access to anti-retrovirals and national government's dithering further dims their future.
- Meanwhile, as she dithers, I put more and more things into boxes.
- While the Government dithers, the project continues to suffer mind-boggling cost escalation at the rate of Rs. 55 lakh a day.
- The longer that the government dithers, the deeper we get into debt.
- Still, we dithered around with first one idea and then another.
- They dithered and faltered and could not get the roll-out of the leadership coup over to the public or even amongst themselves.
Synonyms
hesitate, falter, waver, teeter, vacillate, oscillate, fluctuate, change one's mind, be in two minds, be ambivalent, be indecisive, be unsure, be undecided
2with object Add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals.
对（数字录音）进行噪声处理
Example sentencesExamples
- In order to test the actuation bandwidth, the reference signal was dithered with a signal of constant amplitude, swept in frequency.
- In fact what I had done was to put the AIFF file in Wavelab, used the change gain function and re-dithered the song.
1. 2.1 Display or print (a color image) in such a way that there appears to be more colors in it than are really available.
  〔计算机〕混色，抖色
  the easiest way to remove hot pixels is to dither the images
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, the dithering on the 24-bit photos we beamed over was very apparent thanks to the screen's low dot pitch.
  GIF may win out with the non-dithering, fewer color images while JPEG is excellent for dithered continuous tone images.
  ‘The messy dithering of colours that occurs with JPEG compression is bad feng shui.’
  Photoshop / ImageReady accomplishes this through dithering the image in one of three methods, selectable by the user: diffusion, pattern and noise.
  The three images are supposed to show the effects of quantization and dithering, but that's nearly impossible to see in this black-and-white image.

nounˈdɪðərˈdiT͟Hər

1informal Indecisive behavior.
〈非正式〉犹豫不决
after months of dither they had still not agreed
在犹豫了几个月之后，大臣们还是没有达成一致意见。
Example sentencesExamples
- The fresh wave of rhapsodic dither on the director's sociopolitical acuity was inevitable.
- Why all this dither about what's modern and what's not?
- It was entertaining to see them caught in a dither of priorities.
- Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away.
- His moment of authority coming as it does after an evening of dither and doubt is a well thought out and crafted piece of acting.
- After what seemed like an eternity of debate and dither, Winters finally smashed his kick high and to the left of Gallacher.
- Intel's obviously in a bit of a dither about this.
- ‘It is time the Government ended the dither and delay,’ Mr Burstow said.
2in singular A state of agitation.
颤抖；激动，兴奋
buses are jammed and dirty and everyone is in a dither over taxis
Example sentencesExamples
- The Empress is in a dither about the sprinklers again.
- In DXD mode, dither is selectable for stereo and surround monitors, but you must not use it.
- After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither.
- It's the day of the murder-mystery fundraising event and Colleen's all in a dither.
- Image processor using both dither and error diffusion to produce halftone images with less flicker and patterns
- With Hong Kong in a dither, Shanghai is quickly gaining prominence as the gateway to China.
- Instead, the government opted for dither and funk.
- Mary charged out of the room in an obvious dither.
- But still, the whole experience can send me into a tissy and a dither and you don't want Halley in either of those places.
Synonyms
panic, state of fear, fluster

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘tremble, quiver’): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder.

单词	dither
释义	Definition of dither in English: dither verb ˈdɪðəˈdɪðər [no object] 1Be indecisive. 犹豫不决 I can't bear people who dither 我受不了优柔寡断的人。 he was dithering about the election date 他拿不准选举的日子。 Example sentencesExamples Dibden Bay and Southampton have been delayed and they are dithering about Bathside. In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away. The longer that the government dithers, the deeper we get into debt. They dithered and faltered and could not get the roll-out of the leadership coup over to the public or even amongst themselves. Still, we dithered around with first one idea and then another. Time and again he dithered and dallied on the baseline. The government has been warned to stop dithering and delaying over its Crossrail plans for Kingston. While the government dithers, the awful record of deaths at work gets worse. Yet the CEOs and the Boards of Directors still dithered and their share prices were unshaken. Meanwhile, as she dithers, I put more and more things into boxes. We're still dithering over the Future Fund and talking of parking spare shares there. It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay. As the Government dithers on the matter, he said, cancer sufferers in Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Carlow are dying. The limited access to anti-retrovirals and national government's dithering further dims their future. And so Danny just stood in the background whilst the soldiers dithered around trying to make things safe. There must be no more discussion, delay or dithering on building this interceptor tunnel. While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it. While the Government dithers, the project continues to suffer mind-boggling cost escalation at the rate of Rs. 55 lakh a day. Because hanging around while someone dithers over their order was getting between him and his carefully crafted lifestyle. While the FDA dithers, the case against selling EC over the counter weakens by the day. Synonyms hesitate, falter, waver, teeter, vacillate, oscillate, fluctuate, change one's mind, be in two minds, be ambivalent, be indecisive, be unsure, be undecided procrastinate, hang back, delay, stall, temporize, drag one's feet, dawdle, dally British hum and haw, haver Scottish swither informal shilly-shally, dilly-dally, blow hot and cold, pussyfoot around, sit on the fence 2with object Add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals. 对（数字录音）进行噪声处理 Example sentencesExamples In order to test the actuation bandwidth, the reference signal was dithered with a signal of constant amplitude, swept in frequency. In fact what I had done was to put the AIFF file in Wavelab, used the change gain function and re-dithered the song. 2.1 Display or print (a colour image) in such a way that it appears to contain more colours than are really available. 〔计算机〕混色，抖色 the easiest way to remove hot pixels is to dither the images Example sentencesExamples GIF may win out with the non-dithering, fewer color images while JPEG is excellent for dithered continuous tone images. Photoshop / ImageReady accomplishes this through dithering the image in one of three methods, selectable by the user: diffusion, pattern and noise. ‘The messy dithering of colours that occurs with JPEG compression is bad feng shui.’ However, the dithering on the 24-bit photos we beamed over was very apparent thanks to the screen's low dot pitch. The three images are supposed to show the effects of quantization and dithering, but that's nearly impossible to see in this black-and-white image. nounˈdɪðəˈdɪðər 1informal mass noun Indecisive behaviour. 〈非正式〉犹豫不决 after months of dither ministers had still not agreed 在犹豫了几个月之后，大臣们还是没有达成一致意见。 Example sentencesExamples It was entertaining to see them caught in a dither of priorities. Intel's obviously in a bit of a dither about this. The fresh wave of rhapsodic dither on the director's sociopolitical acuity was inevitable. Why all this dither about what's modern and what's not? Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away. ‘It is time the Government ended the dither and delay,’ Mr Burstow said. His moment of authority coming as it does after an evening of dither and doubt is a well thought out and crafted piece of acting. After what seemed like an eternity of debate and dither, Winters finally smashed his kick high and to the left of Gallacher. 2in singular A state of agitation. 颤抖；激动，兴奋 all of a dither, he prophesied instant chaos 他浑身颤抖，预言骚乱已是迫在眉睫。 Example sentencesExamples The Empress is in a dither about the sprinklers again. But still, the whole experience can send me into a tissy and a dither and you don't want Halley in either of those places. With Hong Kong in a dither, Shanghai is quickly gaining prominence as the gateway to China. Instead, the government opted for dither and funk. It's the day of the murder-mystery fundraising event and Colleen's all in a dither. In DXD mode, dither is selectable for stereo and surround monitors, but you must not use it. After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither. Mary charged out of the room in an obvious dither. Image processor using both dither and error diffusion to produce halftone images with less flicker and patterns Synonyms panic, state of fear, fluster Derivatives ditherer nounˈdɪðərəˈdɪð(ə)rər Everyone else's mandate for smooth evolution remains our ditherers ' charter. Example sentencesExamples Such talk in my view has probably hurt the US in the UN since it gives ditherers and dissemblers there an excuse to continue doing so. Wait 13 months and I guess it's thoughtful review - wait 14 months to allow a review and people might start calling the guy a ditherer. But Jimmy Carter had a PhD and he was a hopeless ditherer. It is all too easy to dismiss him as a ditherer - though there are times when he deserves to be called one - but his success is without question, and potentially without parallel. dithery adjective ˈdɪðəriˈdɪð(ə)ri I've never understood how anyone could be so dithery as to have no idea who to vote for. Example sentencesExamples Ahead of them was another reception desk with another dithery, blonde receptionist behind it. I do not, however, think this subject is black and white… far too many grey areas - hence the somewhat dithery opinion. Things liven up, too, when Mr G appears, shaky and dithery in his stained white suit, having problems with his colostomy bag. And someone has obviously told Bertie to be more decisive, because he isn't nearly as dithery as he was before. Origin Mid 17th century (in the dialect sense 'tremble, quiver'): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder¹. Rhymes hither, slither, swither, thither, whither, wither, zither Definition of dither in US English: dither verbˈdɪðərˈdiT͟Hər 1no object Be indecisive. 犹豫不决 he was dithering about the election date 他拿不准选举的日子。 Example sentencesExamples The government has been warned to stop dithering and delaying over its Crossrail plans for Kingston. As the Government dithers on the matter, he said, cancer sufferers in Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford and Carlow are dying. While the government dithers, the awful record of deaths at work gets worse. Time and again he dithered and dallied on the baseline. While the FDA dithers, the case against selling EC over the counter weakens by the day. While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it. In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away. There must be no more discussion, delay or dithering on building this interceptor tunnel. And so Danny just stood in the background whilst the soldiers dithered around trying to make things safe. It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay. Yet the CEOs and the Boards of Directors still dithered and their share prices were unshaken. We're still dithering over the Future Fund and talking of parking spare shares there. Dibden Bay and Southampton have been delayed and they are dithering about Bathside. Because hanging around while someone dithers over their order was getting between him and his carefully crafted lifestyle. The limited access to anti-retrovirals and national government's dithering further dims their future. Meanwhile, as she dithers, I put more and more things into boxes. While the Government dithers, the project continues to suffer mind-boggling cost escalation at the rate of Rs. 55 lakh a day. The longer that the government dithers, the deeper we get into debt. Still, we dithered around with first one idea and then another. They dithered and faltered and could not get the roll-out of the leadership coup over to the public or even amongst themselves. Synonyms hesitate, falter, waver, teeter, vacillate, oscillate, fluctuate, change one's mind, be in two minds, be ambivalent, be indecisive, be unsure, be undecided 2with object Add white noise to (a digital recording) to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals. 对（数字录音）进行噪声处理 Example sentencesExamples In order to test the actuation bandwidth, the reference signal was dithered with a signal of constant amplitude, swept in frequency. In fact what I had done was to put the AIFF file in Wavelab, used the change gain function and re-dithered the song. 2.1 Display or print (a color image) in such a way that there appears to be more colors in it than are really available. 〔计算机〕混色，抖色 the easiest way to remove hot pixels is to dither the images Example sentencesExamples However, the dithering on the 24-bit photos we beamed over was very apparent thanks to the screen's low dot pitch. GIF may win out with the non-dithering, fewer color images while JPEG is excellent for dithered continuous tone images. ‘The messy dithering of colours that occurs with JPEG compression is bad feng shui.’ Photoshop / ImageReady accomplishes this through dithering the image in one of three methods, selectable by the user: diffusion, pattern and noise. The three images are supposed to show the effects of quantization and dithering, but that's nearly impossible to see in this black-and-white image. nounˈdɪðərˈdiT͟Hər 1informal Indecisive behavior. 〈非正式〉犹豫不决 after months of dither they had still not agreed 在犹豫了几个月之后，大臣们还是没有达成一致意见。 Example sentencesExamples The fresh wave of rhapsodic dither on the director's sociopolitical acuity was inevitable. Why all this dither about what's modern and what's not? It was entertaining to see them caught in a dither of priorities. Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away. His moment of authority coming as it does after an evening of dither and doubt is a well thought out and crafted piece of acting. After what seemed like an eternity of debate and dither, Winters finally smashed his kick high and to the left of Gallacher. Intel's obviously in a bit of a dither about this. ‘It is time the Government ended the dither and delay,’ Mr Burstow said. 2in singular A state of agitation. 颤抖；激动，兴奋 buses are jammed and dirty and everyone is in a dither over taxis Example sentencesExamples The Empress is in a dither about the sprinklers again. In DXD mode, dither is selectable for stereo and surround monitors, but you must not use it. After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither. It's the day of the murder-mystery fundraising event and Colleen's all in a dither. Image processor using both dither and error diffusion to produce halftone images with less flicker and patterns With Hong Kong in a dither, Shanghai is quickly gaining prominence as the gateway to China. Instead, the government opted for dither and funk. Mary charged out of the room in an obvious dither. But still, the whole experience can send me into a tissy and a dither and you don't want Halley in either of those places. Synonyms panic, state of fear, fluster Origin Mid 17th century (in the dialect sense ‘tremble, quiver’): variant of dialect didder; related to dodder.
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