Dictionary entry
Squiggle
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɪɡ(ə)l/
Pronunciation
/ˈskwɪɡ(ə)l/
Myanmar Meaning
လက်ရေးလက်သားတွင် ပါရှိသည့် တို၍ ကောက်ကွေ့သော မျဉ်းကြောင်း။
Definition
squiggle /'skwÇgl / n တြန္႔အိတြန္႔ေခါက္မ်ဥ္း။ ေၾကာင္ျခစ္ရာ။ Is this squiggle supposed to be a signature? ❍ Three red squiggles on a white background—can you seriously call this art? ❏ squiggly /'skwÇgli / adj ပဲတီပင္ေပါက္ (လက္ေရး)။ squiggly handwriting.
Examples
- ‘From simple lines to curves
- squiggles and intricate designs - she creates endless patterns in no time.’
- ‘I now have pages filled with meaningless strings of words
- little diagrams
- squiggles and waves.’
- ‘He pointed out a squiggle containing two loops drawn at the top of the page.’
- ‘I stared at the page of equations I had just finished
- looking at the neat rows of numbers and seeing nothing but a blur of meaningless squiggles.’
- ‘Together
- they drew lines
- and squiggles
- and circles
- until the green crayon was exhausted.’
- ‘Opening up my textbook
- I find a mass of lines
- squiggles
- and letters.’
- ‘The line with squiggles on it was said to represent the laying of carpet.’
- ‘When a bat swoops overhead
- Miller's laptop beeps and clicks
- and corresponding lines and squiggles appear on the screen.’
- ‘He always takes a torch pen along so he can see what he is writing - he learned very early that taking notes in the dark left a meaningless squiggle.’
- ‘The squeeze bottles quickly form squiggles
- dots
- and spirals on almost every dish
- and they're even used for tasks like dressing salads that do not require their precision.’
- ‘She makes a series of squiggles - and when she's done I see that each is a circle with a perpendicular line.’
- ‘Alternately
- if you doubt your ability to draw
- ask someone who can draw to do it for you
- with you sitting there explaining what all of those strange lines and squiggles mean.’
- ‘Using the glass paints
- make squiggles
- dots or lines on the surface of the bottles.’
- ‘In about 30 seconds
- cartoonist Rahnu can turn a spiral into a snail
- a scribble into a bunny and a squiggle into a bird.’
- ‘He tried to make out the name on the signature line
- but all he got was an ‘M’ followed by a squiggle
- and an ‘O’ followed by a longer squiggle with a big bump near the beginning.’
- ‘The powder came to my boot tops
- and we never seemed to come close to our previous tracks
- leaving long
- gorgeous snow squiggles that stretched for miles.’
- ‘Most of the scratchy lines and squiggles visible here are the green patina of oxidized bronze
- not a part of the original coin as cast.’
- ‘We had spent the last hour and a half trying to program our computer to make pretty patterns but all we got was a line
- a squiggle and crashing computers.’
- ‘Those funny dots
- lines
- and squiggles help writers point the way.’
- ‘Then
- using a straw
- get your child to blow the paint into funny lines and squiggles so all the colours mix and overlap.’