(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
Teeter
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(2) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(3) But did those people waking up on this day in January 100 years ago actually believe Britain was teetering on the brink of war?
(4) According to the then-city budget director, Peter Goldmark Jr, “Many people believe there is little or no real security or receivables behind these obligations.” Wall Street bankers, who had enabled much of this reckless behavior, now abruptly refused to take up any more of the city’s notes, leaving it teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
(5) But "cliff-edge" households – perhaps as many as 3.6m in England alone – now find themselves teetering precariously on the brink of poverty.
(6) In reality, it is exacerbating Greece's contradictions, while Greece is teetering on the edge of a cliff.
(7) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(8) "Pakistan continues to teeter on non-governability … Pakistan's education lags behind Bangladesh's.
(9) To care for heart transplant recipients is to walk an endless tightrope, teetering between too little immunosuppression, and consequent rejection episodes, and too much immunosuppression, with its correlated infection and neoplasia risks.
(10) These are not the figures of a man teetering on the edge or an army on the brink of national humiliation.
(11) Mention of his alleged complicity appears to have set off Kasidiaris during the talk show appearance that has highlighted Greece's teetering position on the edge of dysfunction and despair.
(12) On the verge of defeat the yellow and green Fanatics in the crowd, forever teetering on the line between amusing and annoying, urged him “fight, Nicky, fight” and he did just that.
(13) Presence and the relation of the nerve endings with associated structures in the lund of Rattus rattus rufescens (Indian black rat) and Francolinus pondicerianus (grey partridge or safed teeter) has been studied by cholinesterase technique.
(14) After a night of tough bargaining, European leaders have appeared to salvage what had seemed to be a summit teetering toward failure by agreeing early on Friday to funnel money directly to struggling banks, and in the longer term to form a tighter union.
(15) When Raymond Schwab talks about his case, his voice teeters between anger and sadness.
(16) There is a palpable feeling in the country that the ruling junta has run out of ground, teetering on the precipice and threatening to take the country with it.
(17) Photograph: guardian.co.uk Seven months later, despite the economy teetering close to a triple dip recession, the Tories' 2% lead has now stretched to 7% with 29% preferring Cameron and Osborne and just 22% putting their faith in the Labour duo.
(18) IFS inequality chart IFS warns of biggest squeeze on pay for 70 years over Brexit Read more “These troubling forecasts show millions of families across the country are teetering on a precipice, with 400,000 pensioners and over one million more children likely to fall into poverty and suffer the very real and awful consequences that brings if things do not change.
(19) The sector's problems are set to continue in 2012 as shoppers continue to cut back on non-essential spending and the economy teeters on the edge of recession.
(20) Innervation of the pancreas with reference to blood vessels, pancreatic duct, and islets of Langerhans has been studied in Francolinus pondicerianus (grey partridge or safed teeter).