Seesaw

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A long plank balanced on a central fulcrum so that with a person riding on each end, one end goes up as the other goes down. Also called regionally dandle, dandle board, teedle board, teeter, teeterboard, teeter-totter, tilt1, tilting board. See Regional Note at teeter-totter.
  • n. The act or game of riding a seesaw.
  • n. A back-and-forth or up-and-down movement, as of the lead between two contesting parties.
  • verb-intransitive. To play on a seesaw.
  • verb-intransitive. To move back and forth or up and down.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down; a teeter-totter
  • n. a series of up-and-down movements.
  • n. a series of alternating movements or feelings
  • v. To use a seesaw.
  • v. To fluctuate
  • adj. fluctuating.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
  • v. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
  • adj. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A sport in which two children sit one at each end of a board or long piece of timber balanced on some support, and move alternately up and down.
  • n. A board adjusted for this sport.
  • n. Any process resembling directly or indirectly the reciprocating motion of the see-saw.
  • n. Especially
  • n. A circular definition or proof; the definition of a word or thing by means of another which is itself defined by means of the first; the proof of a proposition by means of a premise which is itself proved from the first proposition as a premise.
  • n. In whist, the playing of two partners so that each alternately trumps a low non-trump card led by the other; a double ruff; a cross-ruff.
  • Reciprocating; reciprocal; back and forth, or up and down: as, a see-saw motion.
  • To move as in the see-saw; move backward and forward, or upward and downward; teeter: literally or figuratively.
  • To cause to move or act in a see-saw manner.
  • n. A motion of a steam-engine governor which oscillates on both sides of its mean or neutral position and causes the speed of rotation of the engine to vary above and below the mean.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move up and down as if on a seesaw
  • v. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
  • n. a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
  • v. ride on a plank
  • Verb Form
    seesawed    seesawing    seesaws   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    move    toy    plaything    play   
    Variant
    crossruff   
    Form
    seesawad    seesawing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    teeter    crossruff    saw    teeter-totter   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Esau   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts