Meaning of jiggle in English
(Definition of jiggle from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of jiggle from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of jiggle
jiggle
Some points were jiggled slightly to the right or left to reduce overlap in the upper panel.
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They simplify reality into abstract images that can be rearranged, jiggled, experimented with, communicated to other specialists, and then, eventually, transformed back into reality.
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Unless we can jiggle or marshal market forces, there is no way that we shall have a suitable energy policy.
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My firm lost £300 because of all the jiggling about that occurred in deciding which judge to go before.
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It is not, therefore, a problem which can be solved merely by jiggling about with money, rates and so on.
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To try to dissipate that minority in some way by providing bribes and by jiggling with the electoral system is antidemocratic.
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I have already explained that league tables can be jiggled.
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Why do not we wait to see what will happen to the industry before we jiggle with safety aspects?
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This may be something of a deterrent, for it would make it more difficult for such things to be jiggled with.
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One of the lads went in, used his card, turned the aerial, jiggled it about and tuned it in.
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Clearly, there has been a jiggling of the figures.
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It is an anti-inflationary force which lies far outside anything to do with jiggling around with interest rates or peering two years ahead and trying to hit targets.
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To deal with that takes a little more than jiggling with the figures or pretending that we face purely a financial and monetary problem, however serious.
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These creatures propel themselves forward using their limbs by jiggling or flapping them.
If one erased too hard, the table would jiggle and spoil the others line.
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