Seesaw

Definition: Seesaw

Seesaw

Noun

1. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.

Verb

1. Ride on a plank.

2. Move up and down as if on a seesaw.

3. Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "seesaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Seesaw

Changeableness

Adverb: seesaw; (oscillation); off and on.

Evolution

Wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope.

Adverb: to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.

Irresolution

Adverb: irresolutely; Adjective: irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw.

Crosswords: Seesaw

Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Two for the Seesaw (1962)

The Seesaw and the Shoes (1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cleveland: Confused City on a Seesaw (reference)

• Mystery at the Seesaw Cinema Company (Malcolm P. Muddle Mystery Series) (reference)

• Seesaw Girl (reference)

• Seesaw Millions (reference)

• Seesaw Science Questions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Two for the Seesaw (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Seesaw (1973 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Seesaw, Gloucester, Massachusetts / drawn by Winslow Homer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "seesaw": ad seesaw ♦ play at seesaw ♦ seesaw between two opinions ♦ seesaw motion ♦ seesaw policy. Additional references.

Albanian

kolovitem (dangle), kolovajzë (teeter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعبة المرجحة (teeter), ‏تأرجح (fluctuate, fluctuation, hover, overbalance, pitch, rock, rocking, sway, swing, teeter, vacillate, vacillation), ‏أرجح (swage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pause, pendulate, scruple, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), клатушкам се (dodder, joggle, niddle-noddle, stagger, swing, wamble, wobble), клатя се (dangle, oscillate, quake, teeter, totter, wobble), клатещ се (wobbly), клатене (oscillation, rock, shake, shaking, swing), климушка, непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), нагоре-надолу (to and fro), напред-назад (to and fro), люлея се (nutate, oscillate, rock, sway, swing, teeter, toss, undulate, vacillate, vibrate), люлеене (cradling, oscillation, rock, sway, swing, vacillation, vibration), постоянно се променям. (various references)

Chinese 

蹺蹺板 , 跷跷板 (teeter). (various references)

Czech

nahoru dolù, houpat se na houpaèce, houpaèka (swing). (various references)

Farsi 

الله کلنگ کردن , الله کلنگ , بالاوپاءین رفتن (Teeter). (various references)

Finnish

kiikkulauta, keinua (rock, roll, sway, swing). (various references)

French

osciller, jouer à la bascule, bascule (see-saw). (various references)

German

wippen (Bob, bob up and down, nod, teeter, wag). (various references)

Greek 

τραμπάλα (teeter). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתנדנד (fluctuate, oscillate, rock, sway, swing, teeter), התנדנדות (fluctuation, pitching, rocking, shaking, swaying, swinging), נדנדה (swing, swings). (various references)

Hungarian

mérleghinta (teeter, teeter-totter), libikóka (teeter, teeter-totter). (various references)

Indonesian

papan jungkit. (various references)

Italian

oscillare (balance, dither, flicker, fluctuate, jiggle, oscillate, range, rock, sway, swing, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), ondeggiante (flying, undulating, wavy), altalena (swing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

シーズ線 (seesaw game, see-say policy, sheathing wire), シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTC, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seafood, seahorse, Sealab, seamless, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, series, sheet, sheet feeder, sheet pile, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

シーソーあそび, シーソー . (various references)

Korean 

시소. (various references)

Pig Latin

eesawsay.(various references)

Portuguese

gangorra (teeter, teeter-totter, weighing machine). (various references)

Romanian

legãnare (roll, sway, swing), da în sus şi în jos, basculant (rocking, tilting, tip up), balansare (balancing, sway, swing). (various references)

Russian 

качели (swing, swing set). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nijhanje, ljuljati se (bob, swing), ljuljati (cradle, rock, swing), ljuljanje (roll, swinging), klackati, klackanje. (various references)

Spanish

subibaja. (various references)

Swedish

svänga fram och tillbaka, upp- och nedåtgående, gungbräde, gungbräda (teeter), gungande på gungbräde, gunga upp och ner, gunga på gungbräde, gunga fram och tillbaka. (various references)

Turkish

sallantı, tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., dither, falter, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pause, pendulate, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stickle, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble, yaw), tahterevalliye binmek, tahterevalli, kararsız olmak (back and fill, be hazy about, be in two minds, be uncertain, be vague about smth., dither, doubt, fluctuate, pendulate, vacillate), kâh öyle kâh böyle olmak, kâh öyle kâh böyle olan, inip çıkmak (balance, fluctuate, pump, undulate), inişli çıkışlı (bumpy, chequered, remittent, rugged, surging, surgy, undulant, uneven, up and down, with ups and downs), iniş çıkış, gidip gelmek (get about, go and return, go regularly, run, shuttle). (various references)

Ukrainian

рухутися туди й назад, туди й назад (here and there, hither and thither, to and again, to and back, to and fro, up and down), гойдатися (dangle, oscillate, tilt, wag, waggle, weave), гойдання на дошці, мінливо, зворотно-поступальний рух (reciprocation), дитяча гойдалка (teeter). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng cò cưa, lui tới, lưỡng lự (double-minded, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, haltingly, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indecisive, shilly-shally, undecided, unsteady), không kiên định (chameleonic, fickle, instable, mercurial, mutable, unstable, unsteadfast), kéo lui, cò cưa lắc lư, cò cưa dao động, đẩy tới (impulsive, propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive), động tác kéo cưa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "seesaw": seesawed, seesawing, seesaws. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Seesaw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Seeia, Seeisa, seese, Seeya, Seisay, sesdaq, Seselwa, Sessa, Zeesen. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eases.

-2 letters: awee, awes, ease, eses, ewes, saws, seas, sees, sews, waes, wees.

-3 letters: ass, awe, ess, ewe, sae, saw, sea, see, sew, wae, was, wee.

-4 letters: ae, as, aw, es, we.

+1 letter: aweless, pesewas, seesaws, sewages, waeness, weasels.

+2 letters: rewashes, seawares, seaweeds, seesawed, swearers, sweaters, wageless, wakeless, waveless, weakness.

+3 letters: answerers, askewness, awareness, beeswaxes, enswathes, eschewals, eyewashes, leastwise, newspeaks, prewashes, rawnesses, seawaters, seesawing, sewerages, snapweeds, speedways, stemwares, sweatiest, waenesses, wannesses, wasteries, waterless, weaksides, weariless, weariness, whereases, wiseacres, wiseasses.

+4 letters: awaynesses, earwitness, expressway, foreswears, hawseholes, housewares, leadscrews, lowercases, newsagents, newsbreaks, newscaster, newsmakers, newspapers, saleswomen, sawboneses, screwbeans, sharewares, shewbreads, sleepwalks, smartweeds, snakeweeds, stewardess, stonewares, superwaves, swaggerers, swanneries, sweatboxes, sweatiness, sweepbacks, sweepstake, sweetmeats, swellheads, waitressed, waitresses, wardresses, warehouses, warinesses, warmnesses, watercress, wateriness, watersheds, watersides, wavelessly, waveshapes, wavinesses, waxinesses, weakfishes, weakliness, weaknesses, weaponless, whatnesses, wheelbases, wholesales.