Meander vs Wriggle - What's the difference?
meander | wriggle |
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.
To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
* Jonathan Swift
* {{quote-book
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, author=Carlos Castañeda
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To cause to or make something wriggle.
As nouns the difference between meander and wriggle
is that meander is a winding, crooked, or involved course while wriggle is a wriggling movement.As verbs the difference between meander and wriggle
is that meander is to wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate while wriggle is to twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.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)
References
* The Chambers Dictionary (1998)Anagrams
* *wriggle
English
Verb
(wriggl)- Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
- Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
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- He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.