Word Finder - meanders

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A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art.

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• Greek fret
• meander

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A structural motif in proteins consisting of four adjacent antiparallel strands and their linking loops.

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One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.

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the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body

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A tortuous or intricate movement.

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One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse

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Fretwork.

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Perplexity.

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

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

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The stream meandered through the valley.

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To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.

Farther down the Rhone meanders for a time with shifting channels in a bed about 2 m.

The road goes north-west and meanders through pleasant vales and pastures.

From Berwick the trail meanders along beaches of golden sand to the tidal causeway linking Holy Island with the mainland.

A path marked by wands meanders over the glacier toward the tents avoiding the crevasses en route.

The River Dove meanders slowly through a beautiful wooded dale, over a succession of tiny weirs.

The path meanders from the valley floor, crossing several rivers, before ascending the hillside.

In the field beyond the hedge old meanders and ox-bow lakes can again be made out.

The river meanders for 45km through the lowlands forming ox-bow lakes, backwater swamps and natural levees which are used for small agricultural plots.

There are pubs to be visited, and the River Thaw meanders through rich pastureland.

It meanders through dense forest cover and luxuriant bamboo vegetation as you head toward the peaks.

These are simply parts of the sea which have escaped the filling-in process carried on by the great river and the lesser streams. A second class, called " ox-bow" lakes, large in numbers but small in area, includes ordinary cut-off meanders along the Mississippi and Red rivers.

In its lower course it meanders through pleasant pastures, bogland and pine forests in succession, receives the waters of various mountain streams, passes close by Bunzlau and through Sagan, and finally, after a course of 160 m., joins the Oder at Crossen.

The swiftest current te,-ids, by reason of centrifugal force, to follow the outer side of every significant curve in the channel; hence the concave bank, against which the rapid current sweeps, is worn away; thus any chance irregularity is exaggerated, and in time a series of large serpentines or meanders is developed,, the most-symmetrical examples at present being those near Greenville, Miss.

The growth of the meanders tends to give the river continually increasing length; but this tendency is counteracted by the sudden occurrence of cut-offs from time to time, so that a fairly constant length is maintained.

Excepting the embayment region, Missouri lies wholly within the Carolinian area of the Upper Austral life-zone; the There has been some controversy as to whether this condition is due to the elevation and corrosion of original flood-plain meanders after their development in a past base-level condition - which theory is probably correct - or to the natural, simultaneous lateral and vertical cut of an originally slightly sinuous stream, under such special conditions of stream declivity and horizontal bedstrata (conditions supposed by some to be peculiarly fulfilled in this region) as would be favourable to the requisite balance of bank cutting and channel incision.

The Monongahela is an older stream, but like the Allegheny, it meanders much, and both rivers flow in deeply intrenched valleys.

From this lake issues the Biya, which joins the Katun at Biysk, and then meanders through the beautiful prairies of the north-west of the Altai.

Ouaternarv beds also cover the floor of the broad deoression throuch which the Rhine meanders from Basel to Mainz, and occupy a large part of the plain of the Danube.

In many places there are different channels for high and low water, the latter being partly filled by each freshet, and recut after each subsidence; and the river meanders tortuously through the alluvial bottom in scores of great bends, loops and cut-offs.

The slope of the river bed diminishes until the plain compels the river to move slowly, swinging in meanders proportioned to its size, and gradually, controlled by the flattening land, ceasing to transport material, but raising its banks and silting up its bed by the dropped sediment, until, split up and shoaled, its distributaries struggle across its delta to the sea.

Flood plains may be the result of planation, with aggradation, that is, they may be due to a graded river working in meanders from side to side, widening its valley by this process and covering the widened valley with sediment.

The Maeander (Menderes Chai) takes its rise in a celebrated group of springs near Dineir, and after a winding course enters the broad valley, through which it "meanders" to the sea.