Meander

/miˈæn.də(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

(often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course..

Definitions by Sense

1. (often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
2. (geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
3. A tortuous or winding journey.
4. Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
5. (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
6. (possibly obsolete) A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a land survey.
7. (architecture) A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.
8. (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage

Example Sentences

the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body

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.

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.

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,[…]

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?

The stream meandered through the valley.

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• meanders
• mæander
• meandering
• meandered

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