different between seesaw vs seashore

English

Alternative forms

• see-saw

Etymology

Probably a frequentative imitative of rhythmic back-and-forth, up-and-down or zigzagging motion, such as teeter-totter, zigzag, flip-flop, ping pong, etc., under the umbrella term of reduplication; also likely influenced by the verbs see and saw of either present or past tense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?s??/

Noun

seesaw (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.

   Synonym: teeter-totter

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

Translations

Verb

seesaw (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.
3. (transitive) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
   • 1832, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram

     He see-saws himself to and fro.

Translations

Adjective

seesaw (comparative more seesaw, superlative most seesaw)

1. fluctuating.

Anagrams

• Weases

English

Etymology

sea +? shore

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??shô, IPA^(key): /?si????/
• (General American) enPR: s??shôr, IPA^(key): /?si????/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: s??sh?r, IPA^(key): /?si??o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?si??o?/

Noun

seashore (plural seashores)

1. The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
2. The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.

Synonyms

• (land bordering the sea): seacoast, sea marge
• (strip between high and low water marks): foreshore, intertidal zone, littoral

Hypernyms

• (land bordering the sea): shore, coast, strand

Translations

Anagrams

• sea horse, seahorse