Oscillate

(verb.) move or swing from side to side regularly; 'the needle on the meter was oscillating'.

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• One method of producing the same effect is to make the cylinders oscillate on pivots, as contrived by Mr. Murdoch, in the first model steam carriage, made in 1784. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• The weight will oscillate at a uniform rate, or so many times a minute. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The impression is made by an oscillating type wheel, to which a variable throw is imparted by the key letters to bring any desired letter into printing position. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• To unite and interlace the fibres the wire cloth belt is given a lateral oscillating or shaking movement, which serves to interlock the fibres. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• My impression is, that I was in a state of confusion about it, and, oscillating between the two points, touched neither. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Meantime Miss Lavinia, oscillating between the kitchen and the opposite room, prepared the dining-table in the latter chamber. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• I did so with a lightened heart; but when we last looked back, Mr. Guppy was still oscillating in the same troubled state of mind. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• In one form of this class of machines an oscillating pendulum lever is employed, carrying at its end a revolving cylinder having thirty or more spiral blades. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• When a woman has been seriously wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom is a broken bell wire. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.

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