(n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
(n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
(n.) A vibratory or reciprocating motion.
(n.) Same as Crossruff.
(v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
(v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
(a.) Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(2) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(3) On the other hand it can "seesaw" with periods of worsening alternating with periods of regression.
(4) A 14-year-old boy with congenital seesaw and horizontal pendular nystagmus associated with decreased visual acuity, high myopia, esotropia, and normal peripheral visual fields is reported.
(5) Closely dependent on the mineral prizes, the economy seesawed.
(6) Elevation and intorsion of one eye and synchronous depression and extorsion of the other eye characterize a half cycle of seesaw nystagmus.
(7) Stoke’s Marko Arnautovic seals late win as Everton pay penalty in seesaw battle Read more They led through Erik Lamela’s 17th-minute effort but were pegged back by Odion Ighalo’s 30th strike of the calendar year; it confirmed him as the highest scorer across all four divisions in the past 12 months.
(8) Four months later, she developed typical seesaw nystagmus and moderate hydrocephalus.
(9) It found that the net effect of a seesawing couple of months showed stability in the support for Labour (up one point to 36%), the Conservatives (unchanged on 25%) and Ukip (unchanged on 20%).
(10) Instead, he built his own, complete with the standard orange and white stripes but topped with wooden boards - and a centrally mounted seesaw.
(11) With the usual echographic technics, the Wirsung duct, when dilated can be only episodically seen: the seesaw motion of the transducer produces some undesirable echoes, which rub out the lumen of the Wirsung duct.
(12) The amplitude of the later components (N49-P58; P58-N76; N76-P117) decreased during standing on the seesaw in comparison to that during standing on the stable ground and on the short support surface.
(13) The documents detail the seesawing relationship between the UK and Muammar Gaddafi's regime and illustrate how the fate of Britons trapped in Libya weighed heavily on ministers' minds.
(14) Deals have been struck with the ITV Player, Channel 4's 4oD, Five's Five on Demand, S4C's Clic and the VoD aggregation service SeeSaw.
(15) A case of the rare seesaw nystagmus is presented and compared as for identity with an another case, reported by this author earlier.
(16) Both the cases of the seesaw nystagmus were found to have the same biochemical disorders: the cystathioninuria and the hypopyridoxalphosphatemie.
(17) Reversal of these movements constitutes the second half cycle, forming the "seesaw"-like movements.
(18) The BBC also announced today that Arqiva, which owns the online TV platform SeeSaw, has become the seventh partner to join the consortium.
(19) The intact inferior olivary nucleus-nodulus connections in seesaw nystagmus would explain the 180 degrees phase difference that distinguishes it from the midline form of oculopalatal myoclonus, where these connections are likely disrupted.
(20) Stoke’s Marko Arnautovic seals late win as Everton pay penalty in seesaw battle Read more
Swing
Definition:
(v. i.) To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
(v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
(v. i.) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
(n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
(n.) To be hanged.
(v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
(v. t.) To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
(v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
(n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
(n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
(n.) A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
(n.) Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
(n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
(n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
Example Sentences:
(1) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(2) Anterior as well as posterior regions were both strongly active in relation to the swing-phase of stepping.
(3) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
(4) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
(6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
(7) A single spin density gradient ultracentrifugation method in a swinging bucket rotor has been applied for the detection and isolation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) subfractions.
(8) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
(9) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(10) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(11) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(12) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(13) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
(14) Tony Dolphin, the chief economist at the IPPR thinktank, said: "Any reasonable person might say, these departments are already suffering swingeing cuts, and we're seeing reductions in frontline services: how can you possibly say you're going to take another 1% off without affecting services?"
(15) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
(16) With the Republican primary in full swing, Ted Cruz, a hardliner by most measures, seemed a natural choice for this constituency.
(17) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(18) Squirrel monkeys controlled the air temperature within their test chamber by pulling a chain to select between two preset air temperatures, 10 and 50 degrees C. When the force required to pull the chain was increased in steps from 2.94 to 6.86 N, interresponse interval increased, resulting in wider air temperature swings within the chamber.
(19) Sleep disturbances and mood swings were significantly improved on the nocte dosage.
(20) But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.