Meaning of waggle in English
(Definition of waggle from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of waggle
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Further observations, we are told, showed that the bees performed a sort of 'waggle dance' in the hive itself to indicate the distance to sources of food.
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Very often the driver goes one better than that, and the index finger is waggled in a sort of admonitory fashion at other drivers.
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They can waggle the rudder as much as they like, but it will have no effect.
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Observations have suggested that different species of honeybees have different dialects of the waggle dance, each species or subspecies dance varying by curve or duration.
Recruited foragers may waggle dance as well, increasing the recruitment for highly rewarding flower patches.
In bees, knowledgeable workers perform a waggle dance to guide naive workers to an identified food source.
In tropical habitats, honey bee foraging is severely impaired if waggle dancing is prevented.
They are ultimately successful and waggle the plane's wings, alerting the fighter.
As females fly overhead the males waggle their heads from side to side, shake their wings and call.
On the straight stretch, the bee waggles with her posterior.
In temperate habitats, honey bee colonies routinely perform the waggle dance, but can still successfully forage when the dance is experimentally obscured.
The consumption of ethanol by foraging bees has been shown to reduce waggle dance activity and increase occurrence of the tremble dance.
Honeybees use two kinds of dances to communicatethe round dance and the waggle dance.
There are two main hypotheses to explain how foragers recruit other workers -- the waggle dance or dance language theory and the odor plume theory.
It may also spread the scent released during the forager's waggle dance.
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remuer, remuement…
salla(n)mak, salla(n)ma…
wiebelen, wiebeling…
kývat (se), kývání…
vrikke, vippe, vrikken…
bergoyang, goyang…
แกว่งไปมา, กระดิก, การแกว่งไปมา…
lúc lắc, ve vẩy, sự lúc lắc…
kołysać (się), kołysanie (się)…
vifta, vippa, vicka…
bergerak-gerak, pergerakan…
wackeln, das Wackeln…
svinge, vrikke, svinging…
помахувати, погойдувати, погойдування…
