Twisting vs Sinuous - What's the difference?
twisting | sinuous |
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 23, author=Alexander Star, title=Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading, work=New York Times
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* 1984 , Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
Having many twists
Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
:We followed every bend of the sinuous river.
Moving gracefully and supplely.
:We were entranced by her sinuous dance.
As adjectives the difference between twisting and sinuous
is that twisting is having many twists while sinuous is having curves in alternate directions; meandering.As a verb twisting
is .As a noun twisting
is .twisting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation
- She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.
Adjective
(head)- The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.