English Dictionary

seesaw

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsiː.sɔː/

名詞

限定用法

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.

日本語の意味

中央に支点を持ち、一方が上がるともう一方が下がる遊具で、主に子供が遊ぶためのもの / 上下に揺れ動く、一連の上昇・下降の動き

The children laughed as they rocked back and forth on the old wooden seesaw.

子どもたちは古い木製のシーソーで前後に揺れて笑っていた。

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.

seesaws （ plural ）