What's the difference between crooked and zigzag?

Crooked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Crook
  • (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
  • (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
  • (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A patient presented at the Department of Orthodontics, Medunsa Dental Hospital, complaining of "crooked teeth".
  • (2) And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump doubles down on his Isis comments, saying that Hillary Clinton is the group’s MVP On Thursday, Clinton attacked Trump for the remarks on Twitter.
  • (3) Subjects were examined for somatic symptoms in accordance with Crooks' index of hyperthyroidism.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook in Detectorists.
  • (5) I have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way."
  • (6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
  • (7) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
  • (8) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (9) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
  • (10) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
  • (11) Some of them may feel favourable towards what they're doing, but many of them are able to hear their inner Jiminy Cricket over the voices of their leaders and crooked politicians – and of the people whose intimate communication they're tapping.
  • (12) For analysis of the cytokeratin (CK) of Crooke's cells, 28 post-mortem pituitary glands with unequivocal Crooke's hyaline change were investigated immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies for CK subfamilies.
  • (13) We drove north from Salima, past Nkhotakota, looking out for the crooked painted sign, but it had disappeared.
  • (14) Various locations, Chicago, opens 3 October New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 It’s 1920: the German Empire has crumbled, and Berlin is a city of cripples and crooks, communists and cabaret stars.
  • (15) Clinical assessment (using the Crooks-Wayne index) was combined with the measurement of free thyroxine and triiodothyronine indices (FT4I and FT3I) and the assessment of two tissue markers of thyroid hormone action--sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and the thyrotrophin responses to TRH.
  • (16) The zones were perpendicular to the long axes of the crooked floccular folia, forming the crooked zones.
  • (17) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
  • (18) • The trip was provided by Crooked Trails (+1 206 383 9828, crookedtrails.org ), which works to help indigenous and rural communities worldwide benefit from tourism.
  • (19) about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.
  • (20) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.

Zigzag


Definition:

  • (n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
  • (n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
  • (n.) See Boyau.
  • (a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
  • (v. t.) To form with short turns.
  • (v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
  • (2) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
  • (3) This Z-band is described as simple, since in longitudinal sections it has the appearance of a single zigzag pattern connecting the ends of actin filaments of opposite polarity from adjacent sarcomeres.
  • (4) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
  • (5) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
  • (6) Polystyrene microspheres or India ink particles adsorbed to gliding cells were actively displaced in either direction, their movement tracing either a regular zigzag or helical path along the filament surface.
  • (7) The helices stack in columns, zigzag rather than linear, by means of direct NH...OC head to tail hydrogen bonds.
  • (8) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
  • (9) In nemaline myopathy and some cardiac muscles, the Z-band becomes greatly enlarged and contains multiple layers of a zigzag structure similar to that seen in normal muscle.
  • (10) She knew to bend double and run in zigzags to make herself a harder target.
  • (11) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
  • (12) The detergent phase is organized thus in infinite zigzag chains parallel to the b axis of the P2(1)2(1)2(1) unit cell.
  • (13) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
  • (14) EACH MUSCLE OF THE SYLLID (ANNELIDA: Polychaeta) proventriculus, the region of the gut posterior to the pharynx, contains a single zigzagging Z band, flanked on each side by a sequence of I-A-H-A-I bands defined by thick (60-90 nm) and thin (5 nm) filaments.
  • (15) We have developed a new surgical procedure which consists of a plantar zigzag incision, incision of the plantar aponeurosis, and microsurgical neurolysis of the interdigital nerve.
  • (16) The process of loss of resistance, similarly to that of its development, takes its course according to a zigzag curve, but in the opposite direction.
  • (17) These occurred before I began to use the zigzag incision which provides excellent exposure of the N.V. bundles ensuring their safety.
  • (18) Cars zigzag through dense traffic jams, cutting lanes, overtaking from the left or zipping past red lights.
  • (19) In 18 (82%) of 22 patients, arteriograms showed a hypovascular mass with fine wavy or zigzag (creeping-vine) neovascularity.
  • (20) The construction of the new type of grid is similar to a conventional one except that the lead strips are arranged in zigzag rather than linear pattern.