(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.
Vibrate
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Vibrate
(v. t.) To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
(v. t.) To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
(v. t.) To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
(v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
(v. i.) To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
(v. i.) To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) The intensity changes seen for alpha-fucose were found to follow a reversible first-order rate-equation and the rate constants obtained from different vibrational bands were found to be consistent among themselves and in reasonable agreement with those obtained by other techniques.
(4) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(5) The response of isolated muscle tissue of white rats to low-frequency vibration has been studied.
(6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
(7) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(8) Additionally, by ultrasonic vibration of tissues that had been subjected to prolonged osmium fixation, the epithelium was removed and such microdissected membranes similarly were examined.
(9) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(10) The only likely cause for the pathological vascular findings in our patient was an exposure to vibration due to excessive off-street motorcycle driving.
(11) Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy with 0.5-ps resolution is used to track the evolution of the CO stretching vibration after visible photoexcitation of carboxyhemoglobin in water at room temperature.
(12) Biodynamic stressors such as acceleration, vibration, heat, and cold can affect pilot performance.
(13) There have been shown many changes, which took place in the various anatomic-physiological formations of the brain, and evaluated their significance in organism's responses to the effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, hyperoxia, hypoxia, accelerations, vibrations and combined effects of some of those factors.
(14) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
(15) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
(16) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(17) Our experiments with monkeys gave typical resonance curves for the transmission of vibration of the bulbi with maxima between 25 and 31.5 Hz.
(18) Altering the frequency of vibration did not alter the distribution of tremor frequencies.
(19) Superficial cutaneous stimulation of the dorsal side of the forearm during tendon vibration noticeably decreased the P1 peaks in both types of motor units.
(20) A survey is given of the literature on the sensitivity of the vestibular system to audio-frequency sound and vibration in animals.