gad vs meander

gad

noun
  • A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. 

  • A greedy and/or stupid person. 

  • A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose. 

  • One who roams about idly; a gadabout. 

  • A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod. 

  • A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock. 

intj
  • An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. 

verb
  • To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. 

meander

noun
  • A tortuous or winding journey. 

  • One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse 

  • Perplexity. 

  • One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course. 

  • Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork. 

  • A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times. 

verb
  • To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. 

  • To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. 

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