(v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(2) Having your pot belly jiggled at any age isn't nice.
(3) An improvement from group 1 to group 2 was noticed in both methods (P less than 0.01), but from group 2 to 3 there was improvement only in the method where jiggling was allowed (P less than 0.01).
(4) Hidden from the waist down beneath the stage, he wears a vast tail coat, and jiggles puppet-like pin-striped legs with his arms while a hidden actor operates small hands from behind.
(5) His supersize cross jiggling gently on his chest, he said the figures showed the bank's capital had been wiped out, "the very definition of failure".
(6) State finances will be jiggled so that money goes to where it is thought good for growth, such as infrastructure spending.
(7) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
(8) in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.
(9) 3.24am GMT 56 mins At the other lend of the field Velasquez wriggles and twists and prods and jiggles in the box.
(10) Oddly, given that the design dated to the order's birth at the height of the first world war, it looked rather Teutonic, as if it might have been happy jiggling up and down on the chest of a Prussian general.
(11) An electronic adaptation of an old one, the Jiggle cage, is described.
(12) In each dog, a device was installed in the lower left jaw quadrant to expose the third premolar (P3) to jiggling forces which would enhance the mobility of this "test" tooth.
(13) Experiments have been performed in beagle dogs in attempts to evaluate the effect of orthodontic- and jiggling-type trauma on the supporting structures of premolars.
(14) In the presence of jiggling forces, traumatic occlusion can provoke a progressive mobility, and in certain cases, accelerate the periodontal destruction in presence of periodontitis.
(15) Also, the protein molecules, as a whole, jiggle in the lattice with r.m.s.
(16) R takes his free arm, the one that is not jiggling the other boy up and down like a farmer on his horse, and he takes my hand and squeezes it.
(17) Quantitative measurement of motor activity during such clamp-induced immobility was made by placing the rats in a jiggle cage.
(18) Lanzini then ambushed Claudio Yacob in midfield, jiggled forward and nearly bamboozled the goalkeeper from 25 yards, but Boaz Myhill managed to improvise a save with his feet.
(19) Each surgeon was asked to aim a needle at an exit point using two methods: 'jiggling' (readjustment of the needle in aiming at the target) allowed and jiggling not allowed.
(20) Extrusion, but especially jiggling and a long treatment period were found to be significantly more frequent in the group exhibiting resorption than in the control group.
Movement
Definition:
(n.) The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.
(n.) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
(n.) Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.
(n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece.
(n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.
(n.) A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5-HT thus appears to be the preferred substrate for uptake into platelets and for movement from cytoplasm to vesicles.
(2) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(3) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(4) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(5) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(6) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(7) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(8) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(9) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(10) The movements were affected by iodoacetate, p-mercuribenzoate, and mitomycin C at inhibitory or subinhibitory concentrations.
(11) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
(12) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(13) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(14) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(15) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(16) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(17) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(18) Fluid movement out of the ICF space attenuated the decrease in the ECF space.
(19) Eye movements of convergence and divergence were recorded by a limbus tracker.
(20) These results suggest that, to fully understand how multijoint movement sequences are controlled by the nervous system, sensory mechanisms must be considered in addition to central mechanisms.