walk about aimlessly; carry on in a leisurely way; wander, roam; ramble
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Meander Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
(v. i.)
To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
(n.)
Fretwork. See Fret.
Fretwork. See Fret.
(n.)
A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
(n.)
A tortuous or intricate movement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA tortuous or intricate movement.
meander
\me*an"der\ (?), n. [l. maeander, orig., a river in phrygia, proverbial for its many windings, gr. &?;: cf. f. méandre.]
1. a winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. m. hale. while lingering rivers in meanders glide. r. blackmore.
2. a tortuous or intricate movement.
3. (arch.) fretwork. see fret.
meander
\me*an"der\, v. t. to wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. --dryton.
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.
meander
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, wander]
To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
Meander, (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.
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, 1911 (About)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.
amender renamed
1. To follow a winding and turning course.
2. To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction.
me.an.drous adj
noun
1. meanders. Circuitous windings or sinuosities, as of a stream or path.
2. Often meanders. A circuitous journey or excursion; ramble.
3. The Greek fret or key pattern, used in art and architecture.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.(H.D.THOREAU)
The first sentence of every novel should be: ''Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.'' Meander if you want to get to town.(MICHAEL ONDAATJE)
2. To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction.
me.an.drous adj
noun
1. meanders. Circuitous windings or sinuosities, as of a stream or path.
2. Often meanders. A circuitous journey or excursion; ramble.
3. The Greek fret or key pattern, used in art and architecture.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.(H.D.THOREAU)
The first sentence of every novel should be: ''Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.'' Meander if you want to get to town.(MICHAEL ONDAATJE)
Noun
1. a curve in a stream
(hypernym) curve, curved shape
(hyponym) oxbow
(part-holonym) stream, watercourse
(derivation) weave, wind, thread, wander
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) weave, wind, thread, wander
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) snake
(verb-group) wander
Meander Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Meander Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
An arcuate curve in a river course due to a stream eroding sideways.
Meander Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A meander, in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river. A meander is formed when the moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its valley. A stream of any volume may assume a meandering course, alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley axis. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake is formed. Over time meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering problems for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges.
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Meander Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
to follow a winding course, such as a brook meandering through the fields.
