meander
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course (modern Turkish Menderes).
Inflected forms:
form: meanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mæander
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: meanders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meandering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meandered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meandered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mæander
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
examples: the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body
gloss: One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
pos: noun
examples: See, how the streams advancing to the main, / Through crooked channels draw their crystal train! / While lingering thus they in meanders glide, / They scatter verdant life on either side.
gloss: A tortuous or winding journey.
pos: noun
examples: That journey in the spring of 1891 tracked historical underpinnings of the edifice that Einstein built. Our story will be an extremely interesting mental meander to trace the evolution some of the aspects of relativity theory from the beginning.
gloss: Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
pos: noun
examples: The scales are conceived of as meander fretwork; but I do not know whether, for this reason, this fish is associated with thunder.
A chair rail adorned with Chinese fretwork molding was a specific meander that repeated throughout the home. Moldings shaped as cartouches lined each wall,[…]
gloss: A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
pos: noun
gloss: A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a land survey.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
possibly
examples: Markings on Meander Corners. On all meander corners, the letters “M. C.” ( for meander corner) will be cut into the side facing the stream or lake to be meandered. On post or tree meander corners, within township exteriors[…]
And as to the lands that were within the national meander boundaries, that description was based upon a state survey?
gloss: A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.
pos: noun
gloss: To wind or turn in a course or passage
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The stream meandered through the valley.
Instead of a rivulet meandering downwards, there was a foaming brown torrent racing over the ledge, carrying down great loose stones with it and falling with a loud roar far down into the unseen chasm below.
I'd forgotten how scenic parts of the line are - the railway crosses a host of streams while meandering through meadows or skirting woodland.
gloss: To be intricate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His speech meandered through various topics.
gloss: To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her labyrinth-like ţurns, and mad meander'd trace[…]
Derived words: incised meander
meander belt
meanderer
meanderian
meanderic
meanderiform
meanderine
meandering
meander line
meander loop
meanderthal
meandery
meandric
meandrous
meandry
palaeomeander
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