Meander

Word MEANDER
Character 7
Hyphenation me an der
Pronunciations /miˈændə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Meander"

What do we mean by meander?

To follow a winding and turning course. intransitive verb

To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction: synonym: wander. intransitive verb

To speak or write in sustained fashion on a number of loosely connected topics. intransitive verb

To be directed in various directions or at multiple objects. intransitive verb

A bend, turn, or winding, as of a stream or path. noun

A portion, side trip, or episode in a longer journey. noun

A passage on a subtopic or digression in a longer piece of discourse. noun

An ornamental pattern of winding or intertwining lines, used in art and architecture. noun

A winding course; a winding or turning in a passage; a maze; a labyrinth. noun

An ornament composed of lines, neither representing nor suggesting any definite object, forming right or oblique angles with one another, or even curved with interlacings, etc. The name is used especially for the fret- or key-ornament. noun

A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a survey of a country. noun

In physical geography, a self-developed river-curve suitable to the volume of the stream. noun

To wind, turn, or flow round.

To form into meanders; cause to twist about.

To proceed by winding and turning; make frequent changes of course; move or flow intricately: as, a meandering river; to meander from point to point in a walk.

To make a rough survey of a country by going over it, measuring the bearings, distances, and changes of elevation of the path pursued, and noting the positions of neighboring topographical features.

To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. transitive verb

To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. intransitive verb

A winding, crooked, or involved course. noun

A tortuous or intricate movement. noun

A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art.

A structural motif in proteins consisting of four adjacent antiparallel strands and their linking loops.

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The word "meander" in example sentences

Near the west coast of Asia Minor, a river named Meander, the river from which the word meander is coined, spills into a dismal swampy plain in the country that today is Turkey. ❋ Leonard Mlodinow (2001)

The river was notable for its wandering course hence our modern term meander and in time it would silt up the entire bay between Priene and Miletus. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

The word meander derives via Greek from the name of this river in the antiquity, Maiandros. ❋ AYDIN (2006)

Though it did mean that I did a couple of placemats - I made up 8 or so of these from scrap pairs which I've been using as enders and leaders - I thought I'd practice some of the 72 ways not to stipple or meander from the new Dijanne Cevaal book I got - the placemat on left is actually from the other day and has a leaf type meander, the one on the right has a "paisley" design - wavy lines, with straight lines and dots down the middle. ❋ Katelnorth (2008)

Instead, the Grand Canyon has a winding course called an entrenched meander from the Latin maendere, “to wander”. ❋ John Clayton Nils Jansma (2001)

The lower property boundary was described as the meander line, or upper portion, of the original lake. ❋ Christopher Dunagan (2010)

You applied the wrong definition of the word "meander". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Occasionally, he will ask them to kind of meander over to where the crowd is and fire into the air. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The storm is expected to weaken and kind of meander quite a bit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A comment I got the other day slammed me for being confusing with my flashbacks--yep, I admit, I meander one of my favorite streets in my hometown was Meander Lane, though it was many years later when I learned what "meander" meant. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

It will eventually pick up steam out of west-northwest, 5 miles an hour, and I don't want to say accelerate, but kind of meander its way towards the coastline. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their courses at first sight seem to follow no rule, but, as it is termed, from a celebrated river of Asia Minor, to "meander" along without aim or object, though in fact they follow very definite laws. ❋ John Lubbock (1873)

Marcus Grapp, who had the start of Luclarion in this "meander," -- as their father called the vale of tears, -- by just two years 'time, and was y-_clipped_, by everybody but his mother "Mark," -- in his turn, as they grew old together, cut his sister down to "Luke." ❋ Unknown (1865)

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