What is "seesaw"

Usage examples of "seesaw".

Just as the solution to the seesaw problem was eluding him, so now he was baffled by what must in reality be very apparent.

In the logicless way of dreams, the grassy field transformed itself into an idyllic playground, with slides and swings and seesaws and toys strewn everywhere.

Republic Seabee wallowing in its slip, its high wing seesawing gently.

Instead, Monday, Quincy and the three Chinese cartwheeled into the pista, beckoned Brutus onto the teeterboard and, as she seesawed happily, did their poses and pyramids and leapfrogging on her back.

From that queer seesawing of his feelings, he fell asleep, dreamed of all things under the sun as men only can in a train, was awakened by the hollow silence in some station, slept again for hours, it seemed, and woke still at the same station, fell into a sound sleep at last that ended at Willesden in broad daylight.

Alacrity had seesawed between desperate hope and deep despair, praying to see Floyt show up with a pilfered ship, some way of deactivating the jots, a gun or the keys to the complex, but tormented that it would instead be Dincrist, with Sile and Constance, to take him away to a compound room with restraints, nerve rays, and flensing beams, all the obscene paraphernalia to which so many of the Betters seemed drawn.

One segment in particular, the segment with the bigwigs on it, is rocking and seesawing violently, smoke rising from both ends.

Cuckoos cuckooed, the hour pins fell out of the candle clock, the water clocks gurgled and seesawed as the buckets emptied, bells clanged, gongs banged, chimes tinkled and the Hershebian lawyer beetle turned a somersault.

Like opposite ends of a seesaw, when the quantum jitters of a boson are positive, those of a fermion tend to be negative, and vice versa.

This speculative leap she made partly by studying closely how different cooperative economics was from capitalism, and partly by taking an even larger metahistorical perspective, and identifying a broad general movement in history which commentators called her Big Seesaw, a movement from the deep residuals of the dominance hierarchies of our primate ancestors on the savanna, toward the very slow, uncertain, difficult, unpredetermined, free emergence of a pure harmony and equality which would then characterize the very truest democracy.

After the elephant had got used to seesawing by herself, she was gradually persuaded to do the same with one and another of the Chinese on her back, until all three of them were up there, doing poses and pyramids, and eventually with Monday and Tuesday also up there joining in the posturing, while the great beast happily teetered and occasionally trumpeted with joy.

Then, without command, she continued shifting her weight and seesawing forward and backward.

Beyond the city limits, the sea had become choppy, seesawing with foam.

Henry remembered it well, that seesawing hand as much a part of Pete as the chewed pencils and toothpicks were of Beaver.

Just the fact that you're still seesawing back and forth tells me something.