Meander
[mɪ'ændə] or [mɪ'ændɚ]
Definition
(n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
(n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.
(n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
(v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
(v. i.) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Labyrinth, maze, winding course.
v. n. Wind, be tortuous, run in a serpentine course.
Inputed by Jane
Definition
n. a winding course: a maze: an intricate variety of fretwork: perplexity.—v.i. to flow run or proceed in a winding course: to be intricate.—v.t. to wind or flow round.—adjs. Mean′dered formed into mazy passages or patterns; Mean′dering winding in a course; Mean′drian Mean′drous winding.—n. a winding course.
Checker: Louie
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.
Typist: Mabel
Examples
- Through this valley the river meanders in the most tortuous way, varying in direction to all points of the compass. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He sported a military frock-coat, ornamented with frogs, knobs, black buttons, and meandering embroidery. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She always returned, with greater emphasis and with an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection, 'Let us have no meandering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typed by Agatha