squiggle
a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
to move in or appear as squiggles: His handwriting squiggled across the page.
to form in or cause to appear as squiggles; scribble.
Origin of squiggle
1Other words from squiggle
- squig·gly, adjective
Words Nearby squiggle
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How to use squiggle in a sentence
Over a long period of time, the octopus learns to identify patterns in the squiggles it sees passing back and forth.
What would it be like to be a conscious AI? We might never know. | Will Douglas Heaven | August 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIf confirmed, that controversial claim would push back the origin of the earliest sponges by about 350 million years and make the tiny squiggles the oldest known fossils of animals, by far.
If confirmed, tubes in 890-million-year-old rock may be the oldest animal fossils | Jake Buehler | July 28, 2021 | Science NewsTagged with fluorescent dye, the mitochondria were neon squiggles crawling...
‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health | Katarina Zimmer | July 6, 2021 | Quanta MagazineBerger’s machine, first used successfully in 1924, produced a readout of squiggles that represented the electricity created by collections of firing nerve cells in the brain.
How Hans Berger’s quest for telepathy spurred modern brain science | Laura Sanders | July 6, 2021 | Science NewsPrinted on aluminum in preschool-classroom pastels, these computer-rendered creations array circles, squares and squiggles in pop-art patterns that appear ready for dice or tokens.
In the galleries: Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights | Mark Jenkins | July 2, 2021 | Washington Post
One person draws a squiggle on a Post-It, the other tries to make it into something real.
Father: (sipping bourbon and soda, not looking up from iPad) Just make a circle and put a little squiggle at the bottom.
I will remember the success trajectory is a squiggle ... not a straight line.
The only difference between the two numbers was an extra squiggle in the upper line of the three.
The Egyptian Cat Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinThe heart is a five, the dot a zero, and backward sevens with one squiggle are twos.
The Egyptian Cat Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinThe black squiggle behind is only put in to make the beads and things look better.
Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for squiggle
/ (ˈskwɪɡəl) /
a mark or movement in the form of a wavy line; curlicue
an illegible scrawl
(intr) to wriggle
(intr) to form or draw squiggles
(tr) to make into squiggles
Origin of squiggle
1Derived forms of squiggle
- squiggler, noun
- squiggly, adjective
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