OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 17017

zigzag

/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
en zigzag
Moving in, or having a zigzag.
His thoughts were fixed on one subject, and it was an effort to him to follow the zigzag remarks of his children—an effort which he did not make.
The entrance to this ancient place of devotion was under a very low round arch, ornamented by several courses of that zig-zag moulding, resembling shark's teeth, which appears so o…
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📚 adv • entry_id 17019

zigzag

/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
en zigzag
In a zigzag manner or pattern.
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📚 noun • entry_id 17016

zigzag

/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
zigzag
A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
And still, high in front, arose the precipitous barrier of the mountain, greened over where it seemed that scarce a harebell could find root, barred with the zigzags of a human roa…
She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she…
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📚 verb • entry_id 17018

zigzag

/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
zigzaguear
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.
[…] she saw them as we see the throngs which cover the canvases of Sallaert, Van Alsloot, and others of that school—vast masses of beings, jostling, zigzagging, and processioning i…
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