intransitive verb. 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.

noun. 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.

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.

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

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

noun. A winding, crooked, or involved course.

noun. A tortuous or intricate movement.

noun. Fretwork. See Fret.

noun. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of an old river.

noun. A tortuous or intricate movement.

noun. Fretwork.

noun. A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.

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

verb. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

noun. an aimless amble on a winding course

noun. a bend or curve, as in a stream or river

"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."

meandered  meanderer  meanderian  meanderic  meanderiform  

amble  perambulation  promenade  saunter  stroll  

Alexander  Leander  Lysander  Sander  Santander  

acanthus  almost-human  barre  chambur  chaunt  

Chinese puzzle  Gordian knot  Rube Goldberg contraption  S-curve  ambages  

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