Definition of "seesaw" in İngilizce

noun

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.

4. (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.

5. (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a seesaw.

2. (intransitive, by extension) To fluctuate.

3. (transitive) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

adjective

1. fluctuating.