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Meander vs Tortious - What's the difference?

meander | tortious |

As a noun meander

is a winding, crooked, or involved course.

As a verb meander

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

As an adjective tortious is

(obsolete) wrongful; harmful.

meander

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia meander) (en noun)
  • A winding, crooked, or involved course.
    • the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body
  • * Sir R. Blackmore
    • While lingering rivers in meanders glide.
  • A tortuous or intricate movement.
  • Fretwork.
  • (math) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.

    • Derived terms

    * meander belt * meanderer * meandering * meanderian * meanderic * meanderiform * meanderine * meander line * meander loop * meandrous * meandry

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
    • The stream meandered through the valley.
  • To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
    • (Dryton)

    References

    * The Chambers Dictionary (1998)

    Anagrams

    * *

    tortious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
    • he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […].
  • (legal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

    • Synonyms

    * wrongful