English Dictionary

seesaw

/ˈsiː.sɔː/

noun

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. / A series of up-and-down movements.

The children played on the seesaw in the park.

意味（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.

意味（2）

A series of up-and-down movements.

意味（3）

A series of alternating movements or feelings.

He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a see-saw between the hypothesis and the fact.

意味（4）

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