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# meander

«meander» in Mova's school dictionary: **To turn this way and that in slow curves instead of going…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (meander, meanders, meandered, meandering); noun (a meander, meanders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of a river or road) To turn this way and that in slow curves instead of going straight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#m1)

2) To walk or wander slowly without a clear aim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#m2)

3) (of talk or a story) To go on slowly without a clear point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#m3)

4) Noun: a bend or loop in a river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography a meander is a big loop in a river; over time, a meander can be cut off and make an oxbow lake. In everyday life you meander through a market. In writing lessons a story that meanders loses the reader.

### examples

- The river meanders across the flat valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#x1)
- We meandered through the market, looking at the stalls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#x2)
- The geography class drew a meander and an oxbow lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#x3)
- The path meanders up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#x4)
- His story meandered and never got to the point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#x5)
- The stream made a wide meander around the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/#x6)

### note

Say mee-AN-der. Named after a winding river in Turkey. A meandering river is longer than the straight line between its ends — useful in distance problems.

### In the corpora

- [Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders, like a snake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/4/)
- [In its lower course, a river winds in big loops called meanders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/11/)
- [An oxbow lake forms when a river cuts through the narrow neck of a meander and leaves the loop behind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/12/)
- [A meander is a loop or bend in a river in its lower course.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meander» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meander/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.