(v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
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Zigzag
Definition:
(n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
(n.) See Boyau.
(a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
(v. t.) To form with short turns.
(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
(2) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
(3) This Z-band is described as simple, since in longitudinal sections it has the appearance of a single zigzag pattern connecting the ends of actin filaments of opposite polarity from adjacent sarcomeres.
(4) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
(5) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(6) Polystyrene microspheres or India ink particles adsorbed to gliding cells were actively displaced in either direction, their movement tracing either a regular zigzag or helical path along the filament surface.
(7) The helices stack in columns, zigzag rather than linear, by means of direct NH...OC head to tail hydrogen bonds.
(8) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(9) In nemaline myopathy and some cardiac muscles, the Z-band becomes greatly enlarged and contains multiple layers of a zigzag structure similar to that seen in normal muscle.
(10) She knew to bend double and run in zigzags to make herself a harder target.
(11) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
(12) The detergent phase is organized thus in infinite zigzag chains parallel to the b axis of the P2(1)2(1)2(1) unit cell.
(13) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(14) EACH MUSCLE OF THE SYLLID (ANNELIDA: Polychaeta) proventriculus, the region of the gut posterior to the pharynx, contains a single zigzagging Z band, flanked on each side by a sequence of I-A-H-A-I bands defined by thick (60-90 nm) and thin (5 nm) filaments.
(15) We have developed a new surgical procedure which consists of a plantar zigzag incision, incision of the plantar aponeurosis, and microsurgical neurolysis of the interdigital nerve.
(16) The process of loss of resistance, similarly to that of its development, takes its course according to a zigzag curve, but in the opposite direction.
(17) These occurred before I began to use the zigzag incision which provides excellent exposure of the N.V. bundles ensuring their safety.
(18) Cars zigzag through dense traffic jams, cutting lanes, overtaking from the left or zipping past red lights.
(19) In 18 (82%) of 22 patients, arteriograms showed a hypovascular mass with fine wavy or zigzag (creeping-vine) neovascularity.
(20) The construction of the new type of grid is similar to a conventional one except that the lead strips are arranged in zigzag rather than linear pattern.