meander vs travel

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. 

travel

noun
  • A series of journeys. 

  • An account of one's travels. 

  • The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. 

  • The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. 

  • Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. 

  • The act of traveling; passage from place to place. 

verb
  • To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. 

  • To travel throughout (a place). 

  • To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit 

  • To force to journey. 

  • To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. 

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