(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
Titter
Definition:
(v. t.) To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle.
(n.) A restrained laugh.
(v. i.) To seesaw. See Teeter.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(2) But there’s also generic observational material (how British people avoid speaking to strangers on trains, and so on), and I soon found Hess’s incessant burbling and tittering around largely trivial subjects beginning to wash over me.
(3) The audience tittered when Murdoch said he thought the channel's news coverage had no political bias.
(4) Well Dave genuinely thought the reptiles would go mad for tantric sex lolz because when he tested it in cabinet people were seriously woof, Govey was so hysterical that Haguey was like, hark at Lady Govina, titter ye not missus & Picklesy kept shouting encore, so Dave said funny you should ask, well they have this position called the BT engineer as in you stay in all day and no one comes.
(5) There was a bit of tittering from the audience and it has to be said that in this city of nostalgia and football passion, where Diego Maradona will always be king and everybody is an expert, Benítez retains popular support.
(6) The muses holding up the balcony tittered and the huge chandelier, only just out of reach of Dodd's enormous tickling stick, tinkled with delight.
(7) Labour's shadow education secretary, and historian, Tristram Hunt retorts that it is Gove's argument, rather than unpatriotic Britons tittering over fictional tortoises, that is really shocking.
(8) And there was a certain amount of twitter tittering about two of the world's most eminent economists getting their sums wrong.
(9) It’s easier to say we are not guilty, the Russians are guilty … It reminds me of antisemitism: the Jews are guilty of everything,” Putin said at the end of his comments, which drew titters from the audience.
(10) Nadine Dorries "the suspended member for Mid Bedfordshire" – titter ye not – has not yet achieved her stated aim of encouraging a discussion about abortion or the nasty Lib Dems while emptying the dunny.
(11) There are a few titters from the crowd; the venue comfortably holds about 100, but because of the excitable reviews for Musgraves's new album, Same Trailer Different Park , the room is crammed with perhaps double that.
(12) With a competitive league match under their belts, most English teams will have a better of idea where they stand with regard to the season ahead, with Arsenal the subject of much tittering in the wake of their home defeat at the hands of West Ham after All That Talk.
(13) Pretentious in the best sense of the word, Bush in the early 80s became one of those artists, such as the Associates or Japan, who caused Radio 1 daytime DJs to titter nervously, or be openly derisive.
(14) At this point in our conversation Portman, 26 now but still with the proportions and doll-like features of a child, titters - there's no other word for it - nervously.
(15) Significant differences in end point titter were observed both within and between species.
(16) So forget Shagga, titter ye not and consider the (serious face) … Geopolitical context Remember that episode of Borgen where they spent an hour that you'll never get back on the power plays over the election of Denmark's next EU commissioner?
(17) Let the camp tittering cease while its spiritual significance is finally acknowledged.
(18) A real human voice – the conductor, presumably – raises a significant titter in the carriage when reminding us of this, adding “assuming they arrive on time”.
(19) "A mountain has been made out of a molehill," said Dave Bassett, oblivious to the tittering around him.
(20) Titter in the audience as he speaks of the controversy the award has generated.