meander

English - Turkish

Definition of meander in English Turkish dictionary: dolambaçlı yoldan git; yavaş ve amaçsız bir şekilde konuşmak; salınmak; başıboş gezmek; (ırmak) kıvrıla kıvrıla gitmek; dolanmak; {f} kıvırmak; kıvrım; gezinmek; avare dolaşmak; {f} boş boş dolaşmak; {f} kıvrılmak; zikzaklı veya dolambaçlı devinim; {f} dolambaçlı yoldan gitmek; x mırıldan/kıvrılarak git; Menderes Irmağının eski ismi; girintili kavislerden yapılmış nakış; dolambaçlı yol; menderes
Nehir düzlükte menderesler çiziyor. - The river meanders across the plain.; labirent; {f} dolanmak, dolana dolana gitmek
meandering: kıvrımlı
meander core: menderes çekirdeği
meander cutoff: menderes kopması
incised meander: gömük menderes
meandering: {i} dolambaçlı
meandering: {f} dolan
manoeuvre, twist, meander, wind: manevra, büküm, menderes, rüzgar
meandering: dolanarak
entrenched meander: yataksız akarsu
entrenched meander: (Jeoloji) gömülü menderes
incised meander: (Coğrafya) gömük büklüm
incised meander: kesik menderes
ingrown meander: (Jeoloji) gömülü menders
ingrown meander: gömülü menderes
ingrown meander: (Jeoloji) batık menders
meandering: {i} kıvırma
meandering: {i} dolambaçlı yol
meandering: kıvırarak
to meander: dolambaçlı yoldan gitmek

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of meander in Turkish Turkish dictionary: Dik açılı zikzak biçimde, antik süsleme sanatının özünü oluşturan, Romalılar'ın mozaik yollarda kullandıkları süsleme motifi

English - English

Definition of meander in English English dictionary: A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of an old river; A tortuous or intricate movement; Fretwork; To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous; to wander
The stream meandered through the valley.; to wind and turn while proceeding in a course; {v} to wind, turn, run very irregularly; {n} a winding place, turn, maze, intricacy; To go aimlessly
They meandered through the woods for the afternoon.; Ornamental motif made of one or more parallel lines that turn through right angles to form a pattern; To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate; If a speech, account, or piece of writing meanders, it seems to move from one topic to another without any order or purpose. His talk appears to meander but by the end focuses attention on the true state of affairs. a rich and meandering novel. Extreme U-bend in a stream, usually occurring in a series, that is caused by flow characteristics of the water. Meanders form in stream-deposited sediments and may stack up upstream of an obstruction, resulting in a gooseneck or extremely bowed meander. A cutoff may form through the gooseneck and allow the former meander bend to be sealed off as an oxbow lake. Silt deposits may eventually fill the lake to form a marsh or a meander scar; 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"; a slow-flowing stream's serpentine curvature in a floodplain; - A loop-like bend in a river or stream Typically, a natural meander has a steep bank or cliff on the outside of the curve and a shallow-sloping bank on the inside, often with a low-lying deposit (or 'bar') comprised of material such as silt, sand or shingle Such features provide opportunities for specialist plants and animals (e g sand martins nest in river cliffs); To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous; Erosion occurs on the outside of a curve while deposition occurs on the inside The river forms snake-like meanders; eventually, the water breaks through the neck of the meander, shortening the river flow and forming an oxbow lake The lighter colours show a young river with subtle meanders , but as the river ages the colour becomes darker blue in colour demonstrating much more vivid, resulting in the creation of an ox-bow lake (horse shoe in shape); Decorative pattern in the form of a maze, commonly found in Greek Geometric art; Any of a wide variety of continuous border designs that do not fill the band they occupy but alternate from side to side; A loop-like bend in the course of a river; a curve in a stream; A turn or winding of a stream; curves in the stream channel where the stream dissipates energy; – To wind around or wander through; If you meander somewhere, you move slowly and not in a straight line. We meandered through a landscape of mountains, rivers, and vineyards; The winding of a stream channel; From the name Maeander (modern Menderes), a winding river in western Turkey that flows into the Aegean Sea A decorative motif of intricate, rectilinear character, applied to architecture and sculpture; {f} walk about aimlessly; carry on in a leisurely way; wander, roam; ramble; a twisting, winding action from side to side; characterizes the serpentine curvature of a narrow, slow flowing stream in a wide flood plain; A sinuous curve in a river; A widely-curving bend in a river or stream; A meander is a large bend in a river; If a river or road meanders, it has a lot of bends, rather than going in a straight line from one place to another. roads that meandered round the edges of the fields We crossed a small iron bridge over a meandering stream; A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries; To follow a winding course
incised meander: A meander (an erosion of a river bed) in a region that undergoes tectonic uplift subsequent to the action that caused the initial meander
incised-meander: Attributive form of incised meander, noun
meandering: An instance or period or roaming
meandered: past of meander
meandering: A meandering stream is one that flows in a side to side or, in a sinuous pattern, creating numerous bends
meandering: present participle of meander
meandering: winding or rambling
meandering: adj describes a wandering path, in this case a stream
meandering: A single channel having a pattern of successive deviations in alignment which results in a more or less sinusoidal course
meandering: of a path e g ; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
meanders: {i} indirect windings or curviness (as stream or path); indirect journey; stroll; decorated style of intertwining lines (in Art and Architecture)
meanders: curved "S" shaped stream channels
meanders: are large-amplitude wave-like features evident in ocean currents They can either propagate in the direction of the current (small meanders), remain stationary, or propagate against the direction of the current (meanders with long wavelengths) In strong currents, like the Gulf Stream, meanders can grow and pinch off and form either cold-core or warm-core rings
meanders: third-person singular of meander
meanders: plural of , meander
meanders: As a river forms a series of bends, the curves become more and more pronounced Sometimes, if there is enough room and the river is flowing down a very gently slope, the river may bend back on itself in great loops, these bends are called meanders
meanders: The series of S-shaped curves of s stream

meander

Hyphenation

me·an·der

Turkish pronunciation

miändır

Synonyms

be all over the map, change, drift, extravagate, gallivant, get sidetracked, peregrinate, ramble, range, recoil, roam, rove, snake, stray, stroll

Antonyms

go direct, stay on path

Pronunciation

/mēˈandər/ /miːˈændɜr/

Etymology

[ mE-'an-d&r ] (noun.) 1576. From Latin maeander from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maiandros) - a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course. (Turkish: Büyük Menderes Nehri)