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This tag is for questions seeking a single word that fits a meaning. To ensure that your question is not closed as off-topic, please be specific about the intended use of the word.  INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE demonstrating how the word would be used.  Click on "Info", or "View Tag" and "Learn more..." for more information. Please use the [phrase-requests] tag if you seek a phrase and the [terminology] tag if you seek a term in a specialized subject also.

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What is the Tacoma Narrows bridge doing in this picture?

I don't think it would be such a bad thing to fall back to a simpler word: twisted. In this case, if you were to say "in high winds, the bridge surface twisted" (or "the bridge became twisted"), I thi …
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When you have 5 instead of 4, what's the word instead of "quadrant"?

...or, to phrase it differently, like one of those silly SAT questions... please help me fill in this blank: 4 is to 5 as "quadrant" is to ???? (Does that make sense?)
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