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How to pronounce dither in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms flap, pother
Type of fret, fuss, niggle
Type Words
Synonyms flap, fuss, pother, tizzy
Type of agitation


he was in a dither.
Type Words
Type of fret

Examples of dither

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The lords of baseball are as culpable as anyone, but continue to dither on high.
From the newsobserver.com
Meanwhile, Mr Dinkins's tendency to dither stoked up the city's racial tensions.
From the economist.com
If you fall into the second group, you have even more reason to dither this year.
From the usatoday.com
While the leaders of the eurozone dither, confidence just keeps on draining away.
From the independent.co.uk
You can't dither, and neither should you dive, or you could go into cold shock.
From the independent.co.uk
It is possible to make quantization noise more audibly benign by applying dither.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Iraq's own political leaders still dither on desperately needed political accords.
From the washingtonpost.com
By the time the door closed behind my peeps, I'd worked myself into a dither.
From the ocregister.com
When it finishes, the awkwardness redoubles as I dither about where to sleep.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain
  • An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
  • Make a fuss; be agitated
  • (dithering) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color
  • Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as "banding" (stepwise rendering of smooth gradations in brightness or hue) in images, or noise at discrete frequencies in an audio recording, that are more objectionable ...
  • Dither is the fifth studio album by the American rock band moe. It was released on February 6, 2001 on the bands new, self-owned label Fatboy Records. It was their first album after their split with former label Sony BMG. ...
  • To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something; To do something nervously; To render an approximation of (an image, etc.) by using dot patterns in similar colours to those that are unavailable on the system
  • (Dithering) The process of converting grays to different densities of black dots, usually for the purposes of printing or storing color or grayscale images as black and white images.
  • (Dithering) Simulating gray tones by altering the size, arrangement or shape of background dots.