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Teeter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Teeter has 1 sense
- teeter(n = noun.artifact) dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board - a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end; Array is a part of playground
is a kind of plaything, toy
Verb Teeter has 1 sense
- teeter(v = verb.motion) seesaw, totter - move unsteadily, with a rocking motion; Array is one way to move
Sample sentences:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Teeter, v. i. & t. [Prov. E. titter to tremble, to seesaw; cf. Icel. titra to tremble, OHG. zittarōn, G. zittern.].
To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter. [1913 Webster]
"[The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Teeter, v.intr.
1 totter; stand or move unsteadily.
2 hesitate; be indecisive.
1 totter; stand or move unsteadily.
2 hesitate; be indecisive.
Idiom
teeter on the brink (or edge) be in imminent danger (of disaster etc.).
Etymology
var. of dial. titter
THESAURUS
Teeter
Lissajous figure, alternate, alternation, back and fill, back-and-forth, balance, battledore and shuttlecock, change, come and go, coming and going, cower, dither, dodder, ebb and flow, equivocate, falter, flounder, fluctuate, flux and reflux, go through phases, halt, hitch and hike, limp, lurch, metronome, oscillate, oscillator, pass and repass, pendulate, pendulum, quiver, reciprocate, reciprocation, rhythmic play, ride and tie, ring the changes, rock, rocker, rocking chair, rocking stone, seesaw, seesawing, shake, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, sine wave, stagger, stammer, stumble, sway, swing, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teeterboard, teetering, teetery-bender, tergiversate, to-and-fro, topple, totter, tottering, tremble, turn, ups and downs, vacillate, vary, vibrator, waver, wax and wane, weave, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wobble, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
Teeter
Oscillation
VB oscillate, vibrate, librate, alternate, undulate, wave, rock, swing, pulsate, beat, wag, waggle, nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy, tick, play, wamble, wabble, dangle, swag, fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake, quiver, quaver, shake, flicker, wriggle, roll, toss, pitch, flounder, stagger, totter, move up and down, bob up and down, pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go, vacillate, teeter, brandish, shake, flourish.
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