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seesaw

noun

1 seesaw

A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.

synonyms: dandle board, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board.

Roget 314: oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse.    alternation; coming and going etc. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ... show more

Dutch: wipwap, wip

verb

1 seesaw

Ride on a plank.

synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter.

2 seesaw

Move up and down as if on a seesaw.

3 seesaw

Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.

synonyms: teeter, totter.

Dutch: wankelen


adverb

Roget 149: seesaw etc. (oscillation) 314; off and on.   

Roget 314: to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.   

Roget 605: irresolutely etc. adj.; irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw etc. 314.   

Moby thesaurus: Ferris wheel, Lissajous figure, alternate, alternately, alternation, back and fill, back and forth, back-and-forth, backward and forward, backwards and forwards, battledore and shuttlecock, cant, carousel, chute-the-chutes, chutes, coaction, come and go, coming and going, complementary distribution, concurrence ... show more.

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