Definition of "seesaw"

seesaw

/ˈsiː.sɔː/

noun
plural seesaws
1. A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
2. A series of up-and-down movements.
3. A series of alternating movements or feelings.
  Quotations
  He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a see-saw between the hypothesis and the fact.
  1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons
  Manchester Citykept up their unbeaten start to the Premier League season with victory over QPR in an entertaining see-saw encounter at Loftus Road.
  2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎
4. (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
verb
third-person singular simple present seesaws, present participle seesawing, simple past and past participle seesawed
1. (intransitive) To use a seesaw.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To fluctuate.
  Quotations
  When I think of your kisses / My mind see-saws
  1971, “All I Want”, in Blue, performed by Joni Mitchell
3. (transitive) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
  Quotations
  He see-saws himself to and fro.
  1832, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram
adjective
comparative more seesaw, superlative most seesaw
1. fluctuating.

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