Winding vs Roundabout - What's the difference?
winding | roundabout | Related terms |
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)
Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
* 1896 , , From Whose Bourne , ch. 9:
* 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 17:
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* 2011 , Golgotha Press (ed.), 50 Classic Philosophy Books , ISBN 9781610425957,
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
* 1706 , , Of the Conduct of the Understanding , item 3.3:
(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, and, Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
(chiefly, British) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
A fairground carousel.
A detour
A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
Winding is a related term of roundabout.
As nouns the difference between winding and roundabout
is that winding is something wound around something else or winding can be the act or process of winding (turning around) while roundabout is (chiefly|uk|new zealand|and|australia) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.As adjectives the difference between winding and roundabout
is that winding is twisting, turning or sinuous while roundabout is indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.As a verb winding
is or winding can be .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
*roundabout
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Adjective
(en adjective)- [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
- "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
Rather Reports Another War," New York Times (retrieved 3 April 2014):
- Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
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- Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
- The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
