Loiter vs Meander - What's the difference?
loiter | meander |
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
* {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015
, passage=Agüero, as usual, was loitering with intent and swung his left foot at the ball. The shot was going wide but Silva was there to apply the decisive touch inside the six-yard area.}}
A winding, crooked, or involved course.
* Sir R. Blackmore
A tortuous or intricate movement.
Fretwork.
(math) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
As verbs the difference between loiter and meander
is that loiter is to stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around while meander is to wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.As a noun meander is
a winding, crooked, or involved course.loiter
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Verb
(en verb)- For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
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Anagrams
*meander
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(wikipedia meander) (en noun)- the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body
- While lingering rivers in meanders glide.
Derived terms
* meander belt * meanderer * meandering * meanderian * meanderic * meanderiform * meanderine * meander line * meander loop * meandrous * meandryVerb
(en verb)- The stream meandered through the valley.
- (Dryton)