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Princeton's WordNet

  1. meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective

    of a path e.g.

    "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

Wiktionary

  1. meanderingnoun

    An instance or period or roaming.

  2. meanderingadjective

    winding or rambling

Wikipedia

  1. meandering

    A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank which is typically a point bar. The result of this coupled erosion and sedimentation is the formation of a sinuous course as the channel migrates back and forth across the axis of a floodplain.The zone within which a meandering stream periodically shifts its channel is known as a meander belt. It typically ranges from 15 to 18 times the width of the channel. Over time, meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering challenges for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges.The degree of meandering of the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse is measured by its sinuosity. The sinuosity of a watercourse is the ratio of the length of the channel to the straight line down-valley distance. Streams or rivers with a single channel and sinuosities of 1.5 or more are defined as meandering streams or rivers.

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  1. meandering

    Meandering refers to following a winding or indirect course, often associated with rivers or paths. This can also be used to describe a lengthy, intricate, or aimless form of speech or discussion that takes many digressions and doesn't stick to the main topic. Essentially, it signifies something that doesn't follow a straight or direct path, either physically or metaphorically.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Meandering

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of meandering in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of meandering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of meandering in a Sentence

  1. Larry Corey:

    These are the first trials, and we do not know how efficiently we will achieve the defined endpoints of the trials. Will it be a straight, easily defined line, or more akin to a meandering trail with switchbacks ? We are in unchartered waters.

  2. Henry David Thoreau:

    What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

  3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

  4. Scott Dudelson/Getty:

    You could be a foggy, meandering president—say like Reagan near the end—if you’re winning, but if you’re foggy and meandering on key questions, and you’re also not winning, then you got a real problem.

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