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wiggle
verb
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To generate a wave.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
noun
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- The ocean.
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
adj
noun
verb
verb
- To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro.
- An act of wigwagging.
- To oscillate between two states.
- To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle.
noun
- A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro.
- A device with multiple (often two), alternately flashing lights which is installed at a railway level crossing (or grade crossing), a movable bridge, etc., to warn vehicular traffic to stop.
- An instrument that creates a wigwagging motion for polishing.
- A grade crossing signal with a swinging motion used to indicate an approaching train.
- A device that causes one or more lights to flash in a preset pattern.
- A red light near the door of a sound stage that flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and that all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet; a red-eye.
- A device used to cause lamps installed on a motor vehicle, especially an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance or police car, to flash as a warning.
- Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.
- A warning device inside the cabin of a truck that causes a mechanical arm to drop into view when the pressure in the airbrake system of the truck becomes too low for the brakes to be reliably deployed.
adv
noun
verb
- To glide along with a waving motion.
- To move around freely because of excess space.
- To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.
- To cause to swim.
- To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
- To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
- To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
- To be overflowed or drenched.
- To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
- To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
noun
verb
- To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- To strike out.
- To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- To slap (a behind, especially).
- To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- To strike out (a batter).
- To winnow grain.
noun
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
verb
- To waver.
- To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
- To bring to a stop.
- To limp; move with a limping gait.
- To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- To falter.
- To stop marching.
- To stop either temporarily or permanently.
- To cause to discontinue.
noun
verb
- To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
- To blow a short gust.
- To waste time.
- To waffle, talk aimlessly.
- To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
- To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
- To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
- To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
noun
verb
- To gesture indicating a desired movement.
- To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
- To make a proposal; to offer plans.
noun
- A change from one place to another.
- A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- A state of progression from one place to another.
- from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- A change of position with respect to time.
- A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
verb
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).
- To smell; to sniff.
- To fail spectacularly.
- In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
noun
- A flag used as a signal.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- The name of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- A slight attack or touch.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
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adj
noun
- A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
- A punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
- The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
- The end or conclusion of something.
- A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
adj
verb
- To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
- Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
- To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)
- To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
noun
- The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
- The upper curve of a horse's neck.
- The ridge or top of a wave.
- A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
- The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
- The top line of a slope or embankment.
- A ridge along the surface of a bone.
- A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
- Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
- The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
- The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
- A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
noun
verb
verb
- To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- To smash (something).
- Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
noun
- In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
adj
noun
- A signal flag.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- The game of capture the flag.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
- In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
verb
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To signal (an event).
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- To penalize for an infraction.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- To pave with flagstones.
- To weaken, become feeble.
- To set a program variable to true.
- To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
noun
- Someone who vacillates.
- A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.
- A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
- A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
- A volatile market that moves up and down.
- A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
verb
verb
- To give someone a cue signal.
- To spark or provoke.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
- To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
noun
- A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- A hint or intimation.
noun
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- the beginning of anything
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- set in motion, cause to start
- depart for someplace
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- bring into being
- get off the ground
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- get going or set in motion
- begin or set in motion
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- play in the starting lineup
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- bulge outward
verb
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To fish with a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
noun
- A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
verb
- To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.
- To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.
adj
noun
- A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
- A signalling interaction between cells
- An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
- An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
- A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
- Useful information, as opposed to noise.
- An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
- A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
- A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
noun
- A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
- On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.
- The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
verb
verb
- To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation.
- To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid.
- To get into or board a railway train.
- To put aboard a railway train.
- To become trained or conditioned in a pattern of brain behavior.
- To draw along as a current does.
- To encarriage, to conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
verb
- To demonstrate.
- To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
- To demolish (especially a house or fixture).
noun
- An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount.
- A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.
- A demographic group.
- A demonstration or visual explanation.
- A democrat.
- A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.
- Demolition.
- A march or gathering to make a political protest.
- An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
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noun
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