Though it did mean that I did a couple of placemats - I made up 8 or so of these from scrap pairs which I've been using as enders and leaders - I thought I'd practice some of the 72 ways not to stipple or meander from the new Dijanne Cevaal book I got - the placemat on left is actually from the other day and has a leaf type meander, the one on the right has a 'paisley' design - wavy lines, with straight lines and dots down the middle. The word meander derives via Greek from the name of this river in the antiquity, Maiandros. The river was notable for its wandering course hence our modern term meander and in time it would silt up the entire bay between Priene and Miletus. 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. noun a bend or curve, as in a stream or river.noun an aimless amble on a winding course.

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

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

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

transitive verb To wind, turn, or twist to make flexuous.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun A winding, crooked, or involved course.

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

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.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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 form into meanders cause to twist about.

noun In physical geography, a self-developed river-curve suitable to the volume of the stream.

noun A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a survey of a country.

The name is used especially for the fret- or key-ornament.

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.

noun A winding course a winding or turning in a passage a maze a labyrinth.

noun An ornamental pattern of winding or intertwining lines, used in art and architecture.

noun A passage on a subtopic or digression in a longer piece of discourse.

noun A portion, side trip, or episode in a longer journey.

noun A bend, turn, or winding, as of a stream or path.

intransitive verb To be directed in various directions or at multiple objects.

intransitive verb To speak or write in sustained fashion on a number of loosely connected topics.

intransitive verb To move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction: synonym: wander.intransitive verb To follow a winding and turning course.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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