meander

Plural: meanders

Noun

• a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
• an aimless amble on a winding course
• One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
• One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
• A tortuous or winding journey.
• Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
• A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
• A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a land survey.
• A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.

Verb

Verb Forms: meandered, meandering, meanders

• To wander aimlessly or take a winding course.
• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
  • "the path meanders through the vineyards"
• To wind or turn in a course or passage
• To be intricate.
• To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.

Examples

• His speech meandered through various topics.
• His word search seemed to MEANDER across the board, eventually finding a long word.
• the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body
• The stream meandered through the valley.

Synonyms

ramble, thread, wander, weave, wind, Greek key, worm

Anagrams of meander