stagger

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.

   “the stagger of a drunken man”

2. isim A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.

   “parasitic staggers”

3. isim Bewilderment; perplexity.
4. isim The spacing out of various actions over time.

   “19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.”

5. isim The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
6. isim The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
7. fiil In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.

   “She began to stagger across the room.”

8. fiil To cause to reel or totter.

   “The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.”

9. fiil To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

   “1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation”

10. fiil To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

    “He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.”

11. fiil To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

    “He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.”

12. fiil To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
13. fiil To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.

    “We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.”

14. fiil To schedule in intervals or at different times.

    “We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.”

15. isim One who attends a stag night.

    “Tallinn no longer takes pride in the title of 'favourite destination of British staggers'.”