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# winding

«winding» in Mova's school dictionary: **full of bends and curves that turn back and forth: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no change in form; from the verb «wind»)

### meaning for a pupil

Winding means full of bends and curves that turn back and forth: a winding path or river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winding/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes roads, paths and rivers in stories that go round and round

### examples

- The path was long and winding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winding/#x1)
- We followed the winding river to the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winding/#x2)
- The road wound through the winding hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winding/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a long winding road still counts as one road

### Trees and pragmatics

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