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meander

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Word definitions for meander in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meander \Me*an"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meandered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Meandering .] To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. --Coleridge.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A winding, crooked, or involved course. 2 A tortuous or intricate movement. 3 fretwork. 4 (context math English) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To wind or turn in a course ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flow in a winding course" (of rivers), 1610s, from meander (n.). Of a person, "to wander aimlessly" (1831), originally of persons traveling on a river (1821), perhaps influenced by confusion with maunder [OED]. Related: Meandered ; meandering .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a curve in a stream v. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave , wind , thread ...

Usage examples of meander.

I had the breasts of a woman, and very fine ones they were, too: shapely, upthrusting, ivory-skinned, with nicely large, fawn-colored areole around tumescent nipples, the whole array shining with sweat and a trickle meandering down the cleft between.

From time to time they would cross some smaller stream that, like the Tapti, meandered down out of the country to their right on its way to the Gulf of Cambaye, to their left.

The most chromatic catastrophe ever composed leaves me here, cashless, listening to meandering pattern stand in for plan.

At a glance the travelers could see to the right the whole winding course of the Cise meandering like a silver snake among the meadows, where the grass had taken the deep, bright green of early spring.

With the snow whirling on either side of them, it was as if Meander had brought the spirit and climes of the Frozen North along with him.

Meandering, he entered and paced through the dim coolth of a smallish wood, mostly oak and the chestnuts beloved of Galician swine.

Martin Edelweiss from a childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, through a meandering flight to Switzerland after the revolution, to his university days at Cambridge.

Tall Man had come thundering across during their race, Longarm rode wide around it and splashed into the creek that meandered through the basin where the Upper Belle Fourche Intertribal Agency was laid out.

The paths tangled around each other, meandering past koi ponds and ornamental waterfalls, encircling pagodas and teahouses.

Pomegranates overlapped persimmons, peaches and cherries intertwined, a lacy forest of citrus--tangerines, lemons, grapefruits, and oranges--gradually gave way to thick meandering shrubbery, dappled with sweet-skinned kumquats and guavas that Grandsarah made into jelly each fall.

I sensed Marvell, the far side of me, pulling himself back from whatever mawkish swamp of rhyme he had meandered into and starting to take an interest.

Surprise lay off Mesenteron, moored in fifteen fathom water, pitching gently as she gazed at the harbour, a harbour silted up long since and now full of tree-trunks from the last flood of the river that meandered through the low-lying unhealthy town.

Once the Famirash works this out of its system, it calms down, and by the time it meanders past the cleared fields and small farm villages, it is like a placid old Field Catalyst, plodding slowly and muddily along its tree-lined way.

And one, an exquisite green serpent that began at the nape of her neck and meandered down her back amongst the others, stood out puffily, like a fresh burn blister.

For a while Sumner had complied, meandering along the borders of a riverain forest, secretly peering through grease fires at jumbled frond-huts and the grotesquely misshapen bodies of distorts.