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Definitions: Meander |
MeanderNoun1. A curve in a stream. Verb1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "meander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
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Satire | 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Hydrologic | The winding of a stream channel. (references) |
Literature | Meander (3 syl.). To wind; so called from the Meander, a winding river of Phrygia. The "Greek pattern" in embroidery is so called. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. One of a series of regular, freely developing sinuous curves, bends, or loops in the course of a stream. It is produced by a mature stream swinging from side to side as it flows across its floodplain or shifts its course laterally toward the convex side of an original curve. Etymol: Greek maiandros, from Maiandros River in western Asia Minor (now known as Menderes River in SW Turkey), proverbial for its windings b. To wind or turn in a sinuous or intricate course; to form a meande. (references) |
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Synonyms: MeanderSynonyms: thread (v), wander (v), weave (v), wind (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circuit | Verb: perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander; (deviate). |
Circuition | Wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist; (convolution); make a detour; (circuit). |
Convolution | Verb: be convoluted; Adjective:wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe; (cross). |
Deviation | Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy. |
River | Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress). |
Secret | Maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Meander |
| English words defined with "meander": Grecque ♦ Meandered ♦ oxbow lake ♦ Serpentize. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "meander": abandoned meander ♦ cutoff meander ♦ dredge claims ♦ Gulf Stream meander ♦ meander, Meander Belt, meander cutoff, meander line ♦ Swan of Meander. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "meander": Serpentize. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Meander" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (meander). |
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 | Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #6 Increasing detail of lower canyon including huge meander From "Submarine Canyons" by Shepard and Dill.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Shepard Meander of Monterey Canyon looking to northeast.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A meander in the Sacramento River just above Wilkins Slough.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Work in progress at Duck Creek. This image shows the channel realignment and meander after it has been added to the stream. The sand bags in the foreground were used to create meanders and pools and to reduce the width of the stream.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Stream meander properly functioning in central Oregon.Credit: Unknown. | ||
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| "Meander" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.42% of the time. "Meander" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 67.42% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.73% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.61% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "meander": abandoned meander ♦ cutoff meander ♦ meander cutoff. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meander | 46 |
meander midlands | 5 |
meander river | 4 |
meander inn | 4 |
inn meander plantation | 4 |
kizilirmak meander | 3 |
meander plantation | 2 |
meander travel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "meander"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | kronkel (twist, wind around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjarpëroj (coil, curl, take a winding course, twine, weave, wind, wind up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تمعج (sinuosity, twine, wriggle, writhe), تلوى (crank, crook, ramble, roll, screw, squirm, tangle, twist, wriggle, writhe), تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), تعرج (pucker, sinuosity, tortuosity, twine), جول (range, roam, roll, rove, stalk, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скитам без цел, шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond), криволича (ramble), говоря несвързано (ramble, rave, slummock, wander), меандър, минавам от тема на тема, лабиринт (intricacy, labyrinth, maze, plexus, rabbit warren), бродя без цел, извивам се (crook, nutate, spring, sweep, turn in, twist, wind, wriggle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 河曲. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | meandr, záhyb (crease, Crinkle, fold, gather, plait, ply, pucker, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), vinout se (coil, convolve, roll, wind), toulat se (divagate, gad about, gallivant, ramble, roam), odbíhat od tématu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slingeren (brandish, fling, hunting, hunting movement, nosing, oscillate, roll, side motion, skew, sway, swing, to oscillate, to snake, twist, wave, wave about, wind around), kronkelen (snaking, twist, wind around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | serpentumi (twist, wind around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیچ وخم داشتن , پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Curve, Knee, Loop, Ramp, Rick, Screw, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), مسیرپیچیده ای راطی کردن , چماب , گردش (Canter, Circuit, Gyration, Hike, Jaunt, Movement, Operation, Period, Progress, Promenade, Race, Rev, Roll, Stroll, Trip, Twirl, Wrest), خم (Bent, Crank, Jar, Knee, Recumbent, Vat), راه پرپیچ وخم , دور (Aloof, Around, Away, Circuit, Distant, Orbit, Race, Remote, Wheel, Yonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mutkitella (wind), koukerrella (wind), kiemurrella (twist, wind, wriggle, writhe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | méandre, vagabonder, vagabondage, sinuosité, serpenter, errer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sich schlängeln (serpentine, snake, twist, undulate, weave, wind, wind around, wriggle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελίσσομαι (manoeuvre, thread one's way, twist, wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשוטט (gallivant, hang about, loiter, mooch, perambulate, prowl, range, roam, rove, straggle, traipse, wander), ל"תפתל (be twisted, coil, twist, wriggle), פתול (bend, coil, corded, curve, kink, torsion, twist, wrick), עקלקל (crooked, curved, devious, tortuous), פתול. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kanyarog (ribbon, to ribbon, to serpentine, to twine, to twist, to wimple, to wind, wound), kanyargás (tortuosity, winding, wriggle), kóborol (divagate, roam, to be on the hike, to knock about the world, to maunder, to maverick, to ramble, to range, to rove, to straggle, to stroll, to trollop about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gelayangan (ramble, roam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | meandro (winding), vagare senza meta, vagabondare (roam, straggle, stray, stroll, wander, wander about), girovagare (Maunder, roam, straggle, stroll about, wander, wander about), formare meandri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 迂曲 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うきょく (roundabout, winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eandermay meandro (twine, wimple, winding), meandrar, volta (bend, bent, circuit, detour, doge, gyropilot, jaunt, regress, return, return pipe, revolution, round, roundabout, slue, spire, stroll, sweep, tour, turn, turnabout, turning, twiddle, twirl, twist, wimple, winding), vaguear (hock, knock around, knock at the door, lounge suit, maroon, Maunder, moon, ramble, range, roam, rove, straggle, stray, trail, vagabondize, wander), sinuosidade (sinuosity, tortuosity, wind, winding, wriggle), serpentear (coil, corkscrew, serpentine, snake, wind, wind up), rodeio (detour, evasion, indiscernible, rodeo, roundabout, shuffle, sweep, tergiversation, winding), resolver (choose, compose, conclude, decide, deem, dissolve, figure out, find, fix, iron oxide, nail down, resolve, settle, solve, unravel, unriddle, work out), giro (circuit, circumvolutio, gyre, gyrus, slue, spin, stripe, stroll, tour, turning about, twiddle, whirl, winding), enroscamento (kink, wind, winding), enrolamento (convolution, curling, electrical winding, furl, package, reeling, reeling up, rolling, screw dislocation, twist, winding), dobra (bend, bending, buckle, crease, Crinkle, crumple, double, fold, folding, gather, kink, lap, lappet, plait, pleat, plica, ply, rand, ruck, turn down, turnback, turnover, winding, wrinkle), desvio (aberrance, aberration, alternate route, alternation, alternative route, alternative routing, branch line, break, by-pass, canting, crossroad, deflection, deflexion, demerge, departure, detour, deviance, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digression, diverge, diversity, drift, fore-and-aft vibration, hijacking, junction, leakage, longitudinal vibration, misapplication, offset, range, relief road, re-routing, roundabout, set, shunt, sidetrack, siding, slip, span, surge, switch, transverse vibration, trap, turn, turnabout, turning, veering, x-axis vibration), curva (bend, bent, bent tube, bow, crook, curb, curve, elbow, elbow union, field elbow, flexor, knee, road curve, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, winding), andar sem destino (trapes, wander). (various references) meandru (bend, crook, double, elbow, ins and outs, loop, turn, winding), vorbi alandala, rãtãci (linger, loiter, lose, Miss, ramble, rove, straggle, stroll), hoinãri (dally, gad, linger, loaf, loiter, loll about, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, scour about, stand about, stroll, wander), face meandre (twist, wind), face digresiuni, face cotituri, cotiturã (bend, bent, crook, curve, double, elbow, turn, turning, twist, wind, winding), coti (get round, turn), cot (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), şerpuiturã (turn, twist, winding, wriggle), şerpui (elbow, loop, twist, wave, wind, wriggle). (various references) извиваться (about turn, snaked, squiggles, squirm, wriggle). (various references) meander, vijugati (curve, snake, twist, wind), krivudati (weave). (various references) meandro (bend). (various references) slingra sig (equivocate, fence, hedge, loop, prevaricate, quibble, snake, squiggle, tergiversate, trail, twist, wander, weave, wriggle). (various references) เ"ินเรื่อยเปื่อย (mooch), ทางวกเวียนไปมา, การเ"ินเล่น. (various references) menderes, labirent (labyrinth, maze), kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, crisp, curl, curl up, frizz, frizzle, huddle up, snuggle, squirm, sweep, tuck, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), dolambaçlı yoldan gitmek (bypass, make a detour), dolambaçlı yol (ambages, circuit, detour, indirect means, meandering, roundabout, roundabout way), boş boş dolaşmak (Maunder, ramble, screw around, traipse, trapse, wander about). (various references) меандр, звиватися (serpentine, twine, wander, wangle, wiggle, wriggle, wring), блукати навмання. (various references) dolennu (loop, wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meander": meandered, meandering, meanders. (additional references) | |
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"Meander" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euander, maander, Macander, maeander, maerdref, mainder, Mandera, Marandel, marandet, meader, meandor, meandre, meaned, meidner, Meiendorf, Meindert, menander, miander, Minadeo, Moondork, Muangdaw, mubadir, nefanda, nefandi, Nicander, Yeandle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "meander" (pronounced mēa"nder) |
| 5 | -ē a" n d er | coriander. |
| 4 | -a" n d er | Alexander, Bander, blander, brander, candor, commander, gander, grander, Lander, pander, salamander, sander, slander, Stander, Zander. |
| 3 | -n d er | asunder, attainder, auslander, bartender, bender, binder, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, bystander, calamander, calendar, cinder, cofounder, Condor, contender, cylinder, defender, Ender, engender, extender, Fender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gender, gerrymander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, minder, offender, oleander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, rounder, sender, Sidewinder, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, squander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amender, reedman, renamed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: damner, demean, earned, endear, meaner, mender, neared, reamed, remade, remand, remend, rename. | |
-2 letters: adeem, admen, ameer, amend, armed, denar, derma, dream, eared, edema, emend, ender, enema, madre, maned, menad, merde, named, namer, ramee, ramen, ranee, redan, reman. | |
-3 letters: amen, dame, damn, dare, darn, dean, dear, deem, deer, deme, dene, dere, derm, dram, dree. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aldermen, amenders, damneder, dampener, demander, demeanor, enamored, enframed, freedman, gendarme, mannered, meanders, redemand, remained, remanded, remanned. | |
+2 letters: dampeners, debarment, demanders, demeanors, demeanour, ealdormen, enamoured, forenamed, garmented, gendarmes, germander, madrilene, margented, maundered, maunderer, meandered, membraned, numerated, promenade, redemands, remainder, smartened, tradesmen, undreamed. | |
+3 letters: alderwomen, coenamored, commandeer, debarments, demeanours, department, derailment, dermatogen, dreaminess, embrangled, endearment, endodermal, endometria, entodermal, enumerated, fragmented, freedwoman, gendarmery, germanders, germanized, germinated, madrilenes, malingered, maneuvered, manoeuvred, markedness, maunderers, meandering, merchanted, minaudiere, mislearned, ornamented, overmanned, promenaded, promenader, promenades, reanimated, redemanded, redreaming, reexamined, reimagined, remainders, terminated, unhampered, unmannered, unmeasured, unremarked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 61 6E 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- . .- -. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100101 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M e a n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0065 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47716780707184 |
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