ZIGZAG
\zˈɪɡzaɡ], \zˈɪɡzaɡ], \z_ˈɪ_ɡ_z_a_ɡ]\
Definitions of ZIGZAG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
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in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"
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having short sharp turns or angles
By Princeton University
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an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
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in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"
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having short sharp turns or angles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Something that has short turns or angles.
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A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
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See Boyau.
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Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
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To form with short turns.
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To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
By Oddity Software
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Something that has short turns or angles.
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A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
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See Boyau.
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Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
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To form with short turns.
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To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
By Noah Webster.
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One of a number of short, sharp angles or turns in a course; something with quick turns.
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Crookedly; with sharp turns.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Something that has short, sharp turns or angles alternately salient and re-entrant; a moulding running in a zigzag line; a trench or path with several windings, so cut that the besieged are prevented from enfilading the besieger in his approaches.
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To form with short, sharp turns.
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To move or run in a zigzag fashion.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Representing sharp turns or angels.
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Something that has short turns or angles, as a line, the stem of a plant, &c.
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In mil., in the attack of a fortified place, trenches formed from the parallels and connecting them.
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To form into short turns or angles.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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