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Meanings of zigzag in English

Portuguese
ziguezague
Catalan
ziga-zaga

An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.

        ziguezague
        Portuguese
        ziguezaguear
        Catalan
        zigzaguejar

        Travel along a zigzag path.

              ziguezaguear
              Russian
              зигзаг
              Portuguese
              zigue-zague
              Spanish
              zigzag

              Pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, tracing a path between two parallel lines.

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                    зигзаг

                    A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions; A line created by moving back and forth sideways, and at the same time forward in one direction; A line similar to serpentines.

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                          Synonyms
                          Examples for "broken line"
                          Examples for "broken line"
                          1
                          The broken line of discolored teeth showed suddenly under the lifted lip.
                          Six Feet Four
                          2
                          Her mere presence had breathed new life into our broken line.
                          All You Need Is Kill
                          3
                          The stags waited in a broken line, looking for certain girls.
                          The Plastic Age
                          4
                          Griswold saw no significance in the broken line of Margery's message.
                          The Price
                          5
                          The audacious suitors, charmed into rationality, fell back, and the broken line re-formed.
                          To Have and to Hold
                          Usage of zigzag in English
                          1
                          On the night of February 24 began the third movement in zigzag.
                          A Handbook of the Boer War / With General Map of South Africa an...
                          2
                          Then his course would become a zigzag and very much more painful.
                          Eight Days of Luke
                          3
                          Five plain stitches form a zigzag in the middle of the stripe.
                          Encyclopedia of Needlework
                          4
                          I followed a zigzag pattern, determined to find a route to freedom.
                          206 Bones
                          5
                          Suddenly sharp flashes of lightning darted in zigzag rays through the gloom.
                          Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People'
                          6
                          The arrested boats of the other crews drifted zigzag hither and thither.
                          Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
                          7
                          A zigzag path enabled us to gain the summit of the cliffs.
                          A Yacht Voyage Round England
                          8
                          With a pencil he divided the range in a zigzag, twisting line.
                          Mavericks
                          9
                          Pixels change color, and pictures twist into spheres, zigzag patterns, and waves.
                          Wired
                          10
                          The course of the average man through life is an aimless zigzag.
                          Initiative Psychic Energy / Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelv...
                          11
                          Slowly she went on down the zigzag stairway to her waiting automobile.
                          Helen of the Old House
                          12
                          It is a cutting down of forest trees to make zigzag fences.
                          Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
                          13
                          Beyond this point the trail grew more zigzag, and steeper, and shadier.
                          Tales of lonely trails
                          14
                          Slowly she turned to climb the zigzag stairway to the Interpreter's hut.
                          Helen of the Old House
                          15
                          It refers to a closely curled tress that exhibits a zigzag pattern.
                          Ebony
                          16
                          Move in the zigzag pattern I taught you, and watch your back.
                          Midnight hero
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                          Translations for zigzag
                          Spanish
                          zigzag
                          Zigzag through the time
                          Zigzag across language varieties
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common