windings [wahyn-ding]
Main Entry:
circuit [sur-kit]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: revolution, track, boundary
Synonyms: ambit, area, bounds, circle, circling, circulation, circumference, circumnavigation, circumscription, circumvolution, compass, course, cycle, district, gyration, gyre, journey, lap, limit, line, orbit, perambulation, perimeter, periphery, range, region, round, route, tour, tract, turn, turning, twirl, way, wheel, whirl, wind, winding, zone
Main Entry: maze
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: labyrinth; confusion
Synonyms: bewilderment, convolution, entanglement, hodgepodge, imbroglio, intricacy, jungle, knot, meander, meandering, mesh, miscellany, morass, muddle, network, perplexity, puzzle, quandary, skein, snarl, tangle, torsion, twist, uncertainty, web, winding
Main Entry: turn
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: revolution, curving
Synonyms: about-face, angle, bend, bias, bow, branch, change, changeabout, circle, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, corner, curve, cycle, departure, detour, deviation, direction, drift, flection, flexure, fork, gyration, gyre, heading, hook, pirouette, pivot, quirk, retroversion, reversal, reverse, reversion, right-about, roll, rotation, round, shift, spin, spiral, swing, tack, tendency, trend, turnabout, turning, twist, twisting, wheel, whirl, wind, winding, yaw
Main Entry: wave
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sea surf, current
Synonyms: bending, billow, breaker, coil, comber, convolution, corkscrew, crest, crush, curl, curlicue, drift, flood, foam, ground swell, gush, heave, influx, loop, movement, outbreak, rash, ridge, ripple, rippling, rocking, roll, roller, rush, scroll, sign, signal, stream, surge, sweep, swell, tendency, tide, tube, twirl, twist, undulation, unevenness, uprising, upsurge, whitecap, winding
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Complex curvature.] Convolution.
Category: 2. Special form
Synonyms:
-nouns
winding; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation (crossing); rivulation; roughness., coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop, pink; kink; ammonite, snakestone., serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.
-verbs
be convoluted; wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crapek, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe (cross).
-adjectives
convoluted; winding, twisted; tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid., involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian; kinky., wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled; raveled (in disorder)., spiral, coiled, helical; cocheleate, cochelous; screw-shaped; turbinated, turbiniform.
-adverbs
in and out, round and round.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Circuit.
Category: 1. Conceptional volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding (circuition); zigzag (deviation).
-verbs
perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander (deviate)., lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry.
-adjectives
circuitous, indirect, roundabout; zigzag (deviating); backhanded.
-adverbs
by a side wind, by an indirect course; in a roundabout way; from pillar to post.
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