meandering

  • 1meandering — index circuitous, discursive (digressive), indirect, labyrinthine, moving (in motion), protracted …

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  • 2Meandering — 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. [1913 Webster] Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran.… …

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  • 3meandering — adjective 1) a meandering stream Syn: winding, windy, zigzag, zigzagging, twisting, turning, curving, serpentine, sinuous, twisty Ant: straight 2) meandering reminiscences …

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  • 4meandering — adj. Meandering is used with these nouns: ↑river, ↑stream …

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  • 5meandering — adjective of a path e.g. (Freq. 2) meandering streams rambling forest paths the river followed its wandering course a winding country road • Syn: ↑rambling, ↑wandering, ↑ …

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  • 6meandering channel —    The term meandering should be restricted to loops with channel length more than 1.5 to 2 times the meander wave length. Meandering stream channels commonly have cross sections with low width to depth ratios, cohesive (fine grained) bank… …

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  • 7meandering river — vingiuota upė statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Nedidelė lygumų upė, turinti daug vingių. atitikmenys: angl. meandering river vok. mäandrierender Fluss, m; schlängelnder Fluss, m rus. извилистая река, f …

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  • 8meandering — 1. adjective winding or rambling 2. noun An instance or period or roaming …

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  • 9meandering — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, O shaped, aberrant, aberrative, affluent, aimlessness, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, backhanded, balled up, bent, billowing, billowy, circling, circuition, circuitous, circuitousness,… …

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  • 10meandering — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. rambling, nomadic, circular; see traveling 2 , wandering 1 …

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