wiggling
present participle ofwiggle
wiggle
verb[IorT]
informaluk/ˈwɪɡ.əl/us/ˈwɪɡ.əl/to (causeto)moveup and down and/or fromsidetosidewithsmall,quickmovements:
Hetriedwiggling thecontrolstickbut nothinghappened.
She wiggled hertoesin thewater.
Herhipswiggle as shewalks.
Synonyms
jiggle
joggle
waggle
wriggle
Shaking, swinging and vibrating
- brandish
- flap
- flourish
- fluffsomethingup
- jitter
- joggle
- pulse
- shakiness
- shimmy
- stir
- stirsomethingup
- sway
- sweep
- teeter
- thrashing
- wag
- wobble
- wobbler
- wobbly
- worry atsomething
Examplesofwiggling
wiggling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Thus, action sequence 3 is applied which consists of moveforward_down and moveforward_up actions to penetrate the rock pile bywigglingin between the rock particles.
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For example a family of hypersurfaces which arise fromwigglinga hypersurface in its ambient space.
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Brain waves are indeed the empty content of neurophysiology, proved at last to be the epiphenomenalwigglingof the jello brain.
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He waswigglingoff the chair.
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He waswigglingon the chair.
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Before grazing on a patch with dense sediment, a fish makeswigglinghead-down movements to dislodge sediment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They can not pull their hind-flippers forward, and move on land by lunging, bouncing andwigglingwhile their fore-flippers keep them balanced.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The name snow snake is said to have come from the serpentinewigglingmotion of the poles as they slide down the icy track.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was used to automatically record the receipt of a telegraph message, as awigglingink line on a roll of paper tape.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He communicated bywigglinghis fingers and blinking his eyes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Wigglingthe cable sometimes cured the problem, suggesting that it was just a bad connection.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nurture thewiggling, for that which wiggles is amazing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In one scene, her feet are shown contorting and digging into the bed, and she iswigglingher toes and kicking her feet around.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Wigglingone of the pendulums will create two ripples that propagate in both directions down the line.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A more direct pour and lesswigglingyields a heart shape, and minor variation (reduced lobes, larger stem) yields an apple shape.
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