Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, a.
Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an
onward course.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Zigzagged; p. pr. & vb.
n. Zigzagging.]
To form with short turns.
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Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, v. i.
To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
--R. Browning.
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Zigzag \Zig"zag`\, n. [F. zigzag, G. zickzack, from zacke,
zacken, a dentil, tooth. Cf. Tack a small nail.]
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1. Something that has short turns or angles.
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The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the
politicians by the surer mode of zigzag. --Burke.
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2. (Arch.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or
series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
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3. (Fort.) See Boyau.
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zigzag
adj : having short sharp turns or angles
n : an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating
directions [syn: zig, zag]
adv : in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag
across the blue sky"
v : travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the
countryside" [syn: crank]
[also: zigzagging, zigzagged]
WordNet (r) 2.0
212 Moby Thesaurus words for "zigzag":
L, V-shaped, Y-shaped, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative,
akimbo, alternate, angle, angle off, angular, apex, avoidance,
avoiding reaction, back and fill, battledore and shuttlecock, bend,
bendy, bent, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, branch,
branching off, cant, chevron, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous,
circuitousness, circumvention, coin, come and go, corner, cornered,
crank, crankiness, crankle, crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness,
crotched, crotchet, curve, curvy, declination, defense mechanism,
deflect, deflection, departing, departure, desultory, detour,
deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviate, deviating, deviation,
deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, diffract, diffuse,
digression, digressive, discursion, discursive, disperse, distort,
divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert,
dodge, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, duck, ebb and flow, elbow,
ell, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, errant, errantry, erratic,
escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, excursion, excursive,
excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, forbearance,
forestalling, forestallment, fork, forked, furcal, furcate,
furcation, geniculate, geniculated, getting around, hairpin,
hitch and hike, hook, hooked, indirect, indirection, inflection,
jagged, jink, knee, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering,
neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nook, obliquity,
out-of-the-way, pass and repass, pererration, planetary, point,
pointed, prevention, pull, quoin, rambling, reciprocate, refract,
refraining, ride and tie, roving, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scatter,
seesaw, serpentine, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, sheer, shift,
shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shunning, shunting off,
shuttle, shuttlecock, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, skew, slant,
slip, snaky, stagger, staggered, stray, straying, sweep, swerve,
swerving, swing, swinging, switchback, tack, teeter, teeter-totter,
the runaround, to-and-fro, turn, turning, twist, twisting, twisty,
undirected, vagrant, variation, veer, veering, vertex, wandering,
warp, wax and wane, wibble-wabble, wigwag, winding, yaw, zag, zig,
zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one
carrying the white man's burden. (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an
Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)
He zedjagged so uncomen wyde
Thet non coude pas on eyder syde;
So, to com saufly thruh, I been
Constreynet for to doodge betwene.
Munwele
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
Zigzag, OR
Zip code(s): 97049
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
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having short sharp turns or angles
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A zigzag is a pattern made up of many small corners at an acute angle, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigzag
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ZigZag was the name of a cutting-edge UK rock music magazine. Started in 1969 by Pete Frame the magazine was famous for its thorough interviews, well-researched articles, innovative "rock trees" (see below) and taste in American songwriters such as Michael Nesmith, Mickey Newbury, Gene Clark ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag (magazine)
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ZigZag is Ted Nelson's trademark on a data model he has designed for computer interaction, both for users and between programs. The design is centered around an information structure called a zzstructure and its interactive visualizations. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag (software)
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With respect to flags, a type of stitch used in appliqué work, characterized by the needle moving between the appliqué and the field in short, sharp angles of alternate directions; often seen around stars.
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Making short and sharp turns; in architecture, especially in the moldings in arched door heads of Romanesque style.
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Molding or stitching with a series of frequent sharp turns from side to side.
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A sewing machine stitch that moves back and forth along one axis while moving in one direction on the other.
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Stitches that progress in an alternating-angle (zigzag) fashion; typically used for final stitching on appliqué and tackle twill.
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