Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A volatile market that moves up and down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Someone who vacillates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To vacillate; to move up and down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a toy consisting of a spool that is reeled up and down on a string by motions of the hand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plaything, toy
History
Genericized trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.
Across languages
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
