The meaning of Sinuous

adjective

Sinuous or circuitous.

Usage examples:

The line of gold extends and becomes anfractuous

adjective

Having a lot of bends or curves

verb

Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Usage examples:

The wire has to be bent back tightly

noun

A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit.

Usage examples:

The van screeched round a bend

noun

A curved or angled part of something.

Usage examples:

Make a bend in the wire

verb

Arrange (something long and flexible) in a coil.

Usage examples:

He began to coil up the heavy ropes

noun

A length of something wound in a joined sequence of concentric rings.

Usage examples:

A coil of rope

noun

A confusion or turmoil.

Usage examples:

But the biggest loser from our decision to cling gamely to the mortal coil is the national health s…

noun

A game played on ice, especially in scotland and canada, in which large round flat stones are slid across the surface towards a mark. members of a team use brooms to sweep the surface of the ice in the path of the stone to control its speed and direction.

Usage examples:

If you knew that the preliminary rounds of olympic curling began this week, you're probably on the …

verb

Form or cause to form into a curved or spiral shape.

Usage examples:

Her fingers curled round the microphone

verb

Form or cause to form a curve.

Usage examples:

Her mouth curved in a smile

noun

A line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length.

Usage examples:

The parapet wall sweeps down in a bold curve

verb

Present participle of curve

Usage examples:

The road curves round to the left.

adjective

Full of bends and curves.

Usage examples:

He put an arm around her flexuous waist

adjective

Following a winding course.

Usage examples:

Meandering rivers flow at vastly different rates

noun

An act of following a winding course.

Usage examples:

Ox-bow lagoons left by the river's meanderings

verb

(of a river or road) follow a winding course.

Usage examples:

A river that meandered gently through a meadow

adjective

Showing in section a double continuous s-shaped curve.

Usage examples:

From a high central half-round, the skirt descends along cyma or ogee curves to cusps that set off …

noun

An s-shaped line or moulding.

Usage examples:

Of the 286 planes, the majority, were simple moldings like common ogees, astragals, beads, hollows …

adjective

Of or like a serpent or snake.

Usage examples:

Serpentine coils

noun

A dark green mineral consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate, sometimes mottled or spotted like a snake's skin.

Usage examples:

The metamorphic mineral serpentine - or magnesium silicate hydroxide - is composed of magnesium, si…

verb

Move or lie in a winding path or line.

Usage examples:

Fresh tyre tracks serpentined back towards the hopper

adjective

Having a wavy or sinuous margin; with alternate rounded notches and lobes.

Usage examples:

The leaf margins have less of a prominent sinuate character than those of the other species.

verb

Move or extend with the twisting motion of a snake.

Usage examples:

A rope snaked down

noun

A long limbless reptile which has no eyelids, a short tail, and jaws that are capable of considerable extension. some snakes have a venomous bite.

Usage examples:

The copperhead, a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy …

noun

A treacherous or deceitful person.

Usage examples:

That man is a cold-blooded snake

adjective

Like a snake in appearance; long and sinuous.

Usage examples:

A long snaky whip

adjective

Annoyed or angry

adjective

Full of twists and turns.

Usage examples:

The route is remote and tortuous

adjective

Full of twists and turns; not straight or direct

Usage examples:

His so-called shortcut turned out to be tortuous and slow.

noun

A place where a road branches off from another.

Usage examples:

Take the first turning on the right

verb

Move in a circular direction wholly or partly round an axis or point.

Usage examples:

The big wheel was turning

noun

A place, especially a road, track, or path, where you can leave the road you are on

Usage examples:

Take the third turning on the left after the traffic lights.

verb

Form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape.

Usage examples:

A strip of metal is twisted to form a hollow tube

noun

An act of twisting something around a stationary point.

Usage examples:

The taps needed a single twist to turn them on

noun

A thing with a spiral shape.

Usage examples:

A barley sugar twist

adjective

Having a smoothly rising and falling form or outline.

Usage examples:

The undulating country lanes of northern ireland

verb

Move or go with a smooth up-and-down motion.

Usage examples:

The surface of the liquid undulated gently

verb

To have a continuous up and down shape or movement, like waves on the sea

Usage examples:

The road undulates for five miles before a steep climb., the undulating countryside

noun

A twisting movement or course.

Usage examples:

The windings of the stream

adjective

Following a twisting or spiral course.

Usage examples:

Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase

verb

Cause (someone) to have difficulty breathing because of exertion or a blow to the stomach.

Usage examples:

The fall nearly winded him

adjective

Characterized by or exposed to strong winds.

Usage examples:

A very windy day

adjective

(of a road or river) following a curving or twisting course.

Usage examples:

The long windy path

adjective

With a lot of wind

Usage examples:

It was a windy night., it was wet and windy for most of the week.

noun

A line or course having abrupt alternate right and left turns.

Usage examples:

She traced a zigzag on the metal with her finger

adjective

Having the form of a zigzag; veering alternately to right and left.

Usage examples:

When chased by a predator, some animals take a zigzag course

adverb

So as to move right and left alternately.

Usage examples:

She drives zigzag across the city

verb

Have or move along in a zigzag course.

Usage examples:

The path zigzagged between dry rises in the land

noun

A line or course having abrupt alternate right and left turns.

Usage examples:

She traced a zigzag on the metal with her finger

adjective

Having the form of a zigzag; veering alternately to right and left.

Usage examples:

When chased by a predator, some animals take a zigzag course