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Zigzag vs Zigzagger - What's the difference?

zigzag | zigzagger |

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)
  • a line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions
  • one of such sharp turns
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving in, or having a zigzag.
  • *
  • 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

  • To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
  • *
  • 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.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in a zigzag manner or pattern
  • zigzagger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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,