zig

IPA: zˈɪg

A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction.
(computer languages) A general-purpose imperative, statically typed, compiled programming language intended as a modern successor to the C language.

Examples of "zig" in Sentences

‘E was kind of zig-zagging across the pavement, and I bumps into ’im accidental-like.
One knits a rectangular strip, about 3 wide, and attaches it to a bib thing in zig-zag fashion, overlapping itself.
_artichoke_, but better known as a zig-zag cracker; "if they do not understand English, perhaps they may comprehend pyrotechnics."
This plant is called the zig-zag golden-rod because its stem often turns first one way and then the other, as if it hadn't made up its mind which way to grow.
The Crash of 1929 and the Depression marked the next zag, followed by the longterm zig sparked by the New Deal and the host of social legislation that went with it.
When sailing the down wind leg of a race you don't sail directly down wind, you actually tack slightly that is to say zig zag as this allows you travel faster than the wind.
The figures of these men and women straggled past the flower-bed with a curiously irregular movement not unlike that of the white and blue butterflies who crossed the turf in zig-zag flights from bed to bed.
The road down the mountain wound constantly, and we travelled in short, zig-zag lines, in order to avoid the extremely abrupt declivities; but occasionally, we were compelled to descend in places that made us pause before making the attempt: they were, some of them, almost perpendicular, and our horses would frequently slide several yards, before they could recover.