Zigzag vs Zigzagger - What's the difference?
zigzag | zigzagger |
a line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions
one of such sharp turns
Moving in, or having a zigzag.
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To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
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English refractory feminine rhymes
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An attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.
*1942 The Chemistry leaflet
*:Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment. ''
* 1954 Kiplinger's Personal Finance
*:If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger .
Someone or something that zigzags (moves in a zigzag direction)
*2005 William Safire - Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House
*:That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target
* 2006 John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder - An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann
*:As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,
As a proper noun zigzag
is a small town in oregon.As a noun zigzagger is
an attachment for a sewing machine allowing for zigzag stitches.zigzag
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- between two spears of rock, directly in line with his position, showed a zigzag crack that at night would let through the gleam of sky.
Verb
- At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust. It zigzagged so that he could not see ahead more than a few yards at a time.