英:['wæglɪ]
美:['wæglɪ]
英:['wæglɪ]
美:['wæglɪ]
verb
intransitive verb
to reel, sway, or move from side to side : wag
transitive verb
to move frequently one way and the other : wag
noun
an instance of waggling : a jerky motion back and forth or up and down
a preliminary swinging of a golf club head back and forth over the ball before the swing
Verb frequentative of wag >entry 1
The first known use of waggle was in 1588
wag1 of 3verb
to move or swing to and fro or up and down especially with quick jerky movements wagged his finger as he scolded
the dog wagged its tail
wag2 of 3noun
a wagging movement
wag3 of 3noun
joker sense 1, wit
wagonnoun
a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting goods or passengersespecially: one drawn by animals
patrol wagon
a low four-wheeled vehicle with an open rectangular body for the play or use of a child
station wagon
wagonnoun
a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting goods or passengersespecially: one drawn by animals
patrol wagon
a low four-wheeled vehicle with an open rectangular body for the play or use of a child
station wagon
waggleverb
wag entry 1
1 These massive mammals greet each other with a mix of gestures and sounds—by flapping their ears, making rumbling noises, waggling their tails and reaching out their trunks, scientists reported last week in the journal Communications Biology.
2 For higher-quality resources such as sweeter nectar, dancers repeat the waggle run more times and race back faster after each waggle run. Making Mistakes This dance is difficult to produce.
3 It sounds like painful work though: you play the game by linking Tupsu's waggly eyes to floating islands in order to propel him around the screen collecting stars.
4 The irony of this shouldn’t be lost, as Nintendo’s infamous backstabbing of Sony in the Nineties directly led to the launch of the PlayStation, dethroning the Big N in Machiavellian fashion for a decade until the Wii waggled their way back into relevance.
5 The observations revealed that elephants greeted one another with specific combinations of vocalizations and gestures, such as rumbles with ear-flapping or ear-spreading, as well as other seemingly less deliberate physical movements, such as tail-raising and waggling, according to the study.
6 He can make his ears waggle.
7 But the waggle dance is just one form of honeybee communication.
8 And Adem Bona was a whirling dervish of a double-double, dropping in an and-one layup as the Trojans tried to chip away into a second-half lead, slapping his bicep and waggling his tongue and visibly sucking the life out of Galen.
9 a quick waggle of her head to indicate “no”
10 Another question that scientists are hoping to answer is if social learning could shape changes in a colony’s waggle dance, so that updates about shifts in their ecosystem could then be relayed to younger bees through their elders’ waggles, Nieh said.
11 The silence of the forest might be interrupted with a siren salute from a passing law enforcement helicopter, or a wing waggle from firefighting aircraft passing en route to a fire.
12 Honeybees do the same to learn their waggle dances.
13 On the romance front, there are a couple of kisses between supporting characters, and two mean-spirited characters flirt with each other (one waggles his bottom while wearing lederhosen-style shorts to appeal to the other) and are shown in short silk robes.
14 The younger Yaz’s pre-swing bat waggle was the topic, hitting coach Justin Viele said.
15 In their earliest dances, the bees that had no guidance performed dances with more mistakes in their direction angles and in the distance encoding communicated by the vertical waggle run.
16 He can waggle his ears.
17 Longer waggle runs indicate longer distances, while the angle of the waggle's direction indicates direction.
18 Mother used to offer us sixpence a tooth when they grew waggly, and we pulled them out without any fuss.
19 This part of the design also imparts a nice waggling action via its thin paddle tail.
20 In the Islamic Republic, where dogs are seen as 'unclean', a motion to ban the waggly tailed ones from public places has been put forward.
4 弯曲
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5 不稳的
sensitive disturbing shaky wonky wayward groggy tippy rootless unquiet tottery wabbly walty like jelly
6 摇动
rocky shaky shaking unsteady swingy vacillating agit. swinging rock movement shake swing stir quake agitation flutter shake-up jounce waggle vacillation rockiness move wave jar toss surge reel wag vacillate hotch showd niddle-noddle wigwag waff sway fling agitate frisk wangle joggle succuss
8 不稳
sensitive disturbing shaky wonky wayward groggy tippy rootless unquiet tottery wabbly walty unsteadily shakily insecurely rockily turbulence disquiet shakiness disquietude rockiness like jelly
9 摇晃
rocky staggering shaky Wobbly rickety tippy wavering jiggly rackety staggery wibbly-wobbly roll shake rolling quake stagger wobble swag jolt waver teeter jiggle rockiness wintle play swing toss weave reel jelly tremble falter heave totter welter wave wangle
10 弯曲的
curve curved curly skew crooked bent curvy torturous tortuous sinuous bowing hooked bowed contorted flexural bended inflectional thrawn wriggly flexuous incurvate sinuate inflective
11 摇摆
shaky rocking wobbly pendulous wavery jiggly asway awag waveringly rock roll shake rolling sway stagger wag wamble swing tremble dangle vacillate totter dodder nod
12 弯弯曲曲
crinkum-crankum crazy cranky serpentine twisty snaky anfractuous flexuous eellike crankle crank in and out