Scurry vs Meander - What's the difference?
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To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
* 1964 ,
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.
Scurry is a related term of meander.
As verbs the difference between scurry and meander
is that scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper 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.scurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
Derived terms
* scurry away * scurry offAnagrams
*meander
English
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)