Winding vs Anfractuosity - What's the difference?
winding | anfractuosity |
something wound around something else
the manner in which something is wound
one complete turn of something wound
(electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
the act or process of winding (turning around)
A winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.
* 1645 , , The Trissotetras'', reprinted in ''The works of sir Thomas Urquhart (1834), T. Maitland ed., p. 95:
* 1656 Blount Glossogr., cited in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles , V1 P1, p. 322:
* 1835 , , On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in their History, Habits and Instincts , Volume 1, p. 182:
* 1860 , "A Drama on the Sea-Shore (from "The Philosophical Studies of Honore de Balzac)" in The Dial , Volume 1, ed., p. 301:
* 1875 , H. James Roderick Hudson, "VII Saint Cecilia’s" in The Atlantic monthly , Volume 36, p. 58:
* 1876 , Henry Havard, Picturesque Holland: A journey in the provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overyssel, Guelders and Limbourg , p. 407:
* 1897 , London Missionary Society Press, The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine , Volume 6, p. 343:
* 1910 , The Encyclopædia Britannica Company, The Encyclopædia britannica: A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information , Volume 2, p. 4:
* 1991 , ?? (translator), (author), Rules of the Game'' (''La Règle du jeu ), p. 85:
One of the fissures (sulci ) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.
* 1596 , Peter Lowe, Whole Courese of Chirurgerie 241 cited in 1877, A new English Dictionary on Historical Principles V1 P1, 322:
* 1835 , R. Owen, "On the Anatomy of the Cheetah", Felis Schreb, in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London , Volume 1, p. 130:
* 1844 , , The Anatomy of the Human Body , p. 734:
* 1913 (March), Korish, The Flaming Sword , Volume 27, p. 68:
As nouns the difference between winding and anfractuosity
is that winding is something wound around something else or winding can be the act or process of winding (turning around) while anfractuosity is a winding channel or crevice, such as occur in the depths of the sea or in mountains.As a verb winding
is or winding can be .As a adjective winding
is twisting, turning or sinuous.winding
English
(wikipedia winding)Etymology 1
.Verb
(head)Noun
Etymology 2
, as the wind was used to assist turning.Verb
(head)Noun
Derived terms
(Winding hole) * winding holeAnagrams
*anfractuosity
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Noun
- Here endeth the doctrine of the right-angled sphericalls, the whole diatyposis wherof is in the Equisolea or hippocrepidian diagram, whose most intricate amfractuosities , renvoys, various mixture of analogies, and perturbat situation of proportionall termes, cannot choose but be pervious to the understanding of any judicious reader that hath perused this comment aright.
- Amfractuosity .
- They do not always elevate their polyparies from the depths of the waters to their surface, some extend themselves horizontally upon the bottom of the sea, following its curvatures, declivities, and anfractuosities , and cover the soil of old ocean with an enamelled carpet of various and brilliant colours, sometimes of a single colour as dazzling as the purple of the ancients.
- At this moment, the Sun, sympathizing with these thoughts of love, or of the future, has cast on the tawny sides of this rock, an ardent light; some mountain flowers called attention, the calm and the silence enlarged this anfractuosity , sombre in reality, colored by the dreamer; then it was beautiful with its scant vegetation, its warm chamomillas, its hair of Venus with the velvet leaves; a festival prolonged, magnificent decorations, happy exaltation of human forces!'
- There are chance anfractuosities of ruin in the upper portions of the Coliseum which offer a very fair imitation of the rugged face of an alpine cliff.
- The quarry is usually entered by an anfractuosity of the mountain.
- At Namoroka, a rapid stream, one of the sources of the Kàpilòza, gushes out, already formed, from an anfractuosity in the rock.
- ANFRACTUOSITY (from Lat. anfractuosas, winding), twisting and turning, circuitousness; a word usually employed in the plural to denote winding channels such as occur in the depths of the sea, mountains, or the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analog, in the mind.
- “anfractuosity” conveys the idea of a fault or crack in a rock or boulder.
- The vayne goeth aboue the artier, but not right lyne as other parts doe, but in anfractuosities , like unto a Woodbine.
- The first or most anterior anfractuosity on the superior surface of the brain is longitudinal, and being the continuation and termination of the principal one on the inferior surface, it extends a very short distance from before backwards.
- The great anfractuosity , called the fissure of Sylvius, divides the convolutions of the inferior surface into those of the anterior and those of the middle and posterior lobe.
- The brain is a mass of grey and white matter, somewhat oval in shape, with fissures and indentations dividing it into convolutions or gyri, with smaller subdivisious mapped out by sulci'' and anfractuosities'''. (''Sulci'' is the plural of ''sulcus'', which means a furrow. An ' anfractuosity is a winding or turning.)