zigzag
IPA: zˈɪgzæg
noun
- A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
- One of these sharp turns.
- A small town in Oregon
verb
- To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
adjective
- Moving in, or having a zigzag.
adverb
- in a zigzag manner or pattern
zig-zag
IPA: zˈɪgzæg
noun
- Alternative spelling of zigzag [A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.]
verb
- Alternative spelling of zigzag [To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.]
adjective
- Alternative spelling of zigzag [Moving in, or having a zigzag.]
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Examples of "zigzag" in Sentences
- These are rectangle, circle and zigzag.
- The dancers feet move in clockwise and zigzag forms.
- An example is the zigzag design found in many blankets.
- On the tail, the pattern fuses to form a zigzag pattern.
- Shooting at them on the zigzag is iffy at best, but hard to resist.
- An example is the zigzag design found in many of the Salish blankets.
- He proposed the edge state that is unique in the graphene zigzag edges.
- It was designed in the Zigzag Moderne Art Deco style popular at the time.
- The coloring makes it appear to have a zigzag edge on the sides, and tail.
- In this manner, the ball in the counter is advanced along the zigzag track.
- A double line zigzag means that the fingers wriggle or flutter out of sync.
- This refers to the zigzag bolt on his forehead, where his Voldemort-marked story began.
- _Chevron_ -- an inflected moulding, also called zigzag, characteristic of Norman architecture.
- The resulting kilns, known as the zigzag kilns, have a faster firing schedule than the Hoffmann kiln.
- The trench, like all the others, was excavated in short, zigzag lengths, so that no point, either to right or left, commanded more than a score of yards of it.
- This section is termed the zigzag tubule; it ends in a convoluted tube, which resembles the proximal convoluted tubule, and is called the distal convoluted tubule.
- Or perhaps we might liken him to that ingenious piece of fire-work called a zigzag cracker, which explodes with unexpected and repeated suddenness, changing its position in a most perplexing manner at every crack.
- It was as much climbing as marching, and, as Bill Gedge said, "all agin the collar;" but the men did not seem to mind, as they mounted higher and higher in the expectation of finding that the next turn of the zigzag was the top of the pass.
- Butterflies, too, and moths of every size and pattern; some wide-winged like bats, flapping slowly and sailing in easy curves; others like small flying violets shaking about loosely in short zigzag flights close to the flowers, feasting in plenty night and day.
Examples of "zig-zag" in Sentences
- Do your tires roll 30 mph and jump over logs and zig-zag through trees?
- Did you also notice the zig-zag pattern on those four pillars surrounding the monument?
- One knits a rectangular strip, about 3 wide, and attaches it to a bib thing in zig-zag fashion, overlapping itself.
- It portrayed a rudimentary skull-shape and a symbolic zig-zag bolt of electricity and displayed these three plain words of warning.
- As the golden light reveals, the artist holds his palette a flattened "U" rotated 90 degrees and enclosing a large circle at the end of a zig-zag arm.
- Finally the fishermen positioned a motor boat at the base of the bay and began running zig-zag patterns that forced the dolphins to the mouth of the bay.
- We're going to be in the Midwest--we're just going to be going all over the country in a giant zig-zag for two months, then we're going to take a break and go back out with Ray LaMontagne, who is one of my favorite singers.
- Elizabeth Montague arranged the chairs of her salons in a semicircle where attendees were assigned places according to "talent and rank" (a challenge if one was considered to have one but not the other!), whereas Elizabeth Vesey, a more prescient harbinger of modern blogging, scattered cushions in the room so that there was "no zig-zag path of common impediment" to discourse.
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