figure-eight
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
verb
To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern.
Example Sentences
- "For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1)."
- "One cloudy day the instructors set me up to ride through a very, very tight figure-eight."
- "The figure-eight is really no more than two circles in different directions."
- "For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café."
- "When he has been circled or figure-eighted enough times, he will become convinced that he is not to be asked to take the fence."
- "To prevent the hook from tumbling and coming out of the hoisting eye, a short lanyard on the pea of the counterbalance is figure-eighted around the shank and tip."