That follows a sinuous course, takes or has a curvilinear form, or is full of bends and turns. Of the course or outline of natural features…
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释义 | the world > space > direction > [adjective] > bending or winding (25) winding1555 That follows a sinuous course, takes or has a curvilinear form, or is full of bends and turns. Of the course or outline of natural features… straying1585 That strays, in the senses of the verb. Of a thing. †straying star n. a planet; cf. errant, adj. 9b. crankling1596 Twisting or winding in and out. meandrian1608 Resembling or reminiscent of the meanders of a river; winding. tortive1609 Twisting, twisted, tortuous. meandered1612 Winding, labyrinthine. Obsolete. serpentine1615 Having a direction or following a course resembling that of a serpent in motion; tortuous, sinuous, winding. Also, esp. in reference to canals or… snailing1615 Winding spirally, or like the tracks of snails. meandering1617 That meanders; winding, twisting. In quot. 1661 figurative: deliberately complicating. meandrous1639 Full of or characterized by meanders; winding. meandric1658 = meandrous, adj. wandering1667 Of roads, rivers, etc.: Lying in an irregularly bending line, winding, meandering; also figurative. Also transferred (Physiology) as the… wimpling1721 Winding, meandering (esp. of streams); also, rippling. Also transferred in poetic use. spiral1796 Curving continuously round a fixed point in the same plane at a steadily increasing (or diminishing) distance from it. circumvolutory1834 Winding about. wormy1869 figurative. Grovelling; earthy; crooked, tortuous. twistering1872 winding, twisting. twistified1872 twistical1890 Somewhat twisted or crooked; figurative not straight or plain in character; morally or mentally tortuous. Subcategories:— turned back (5) — that has something winding over its surface (1) |
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