| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | [Complex curvature.] Convolution. |
| Category: | 2. Special form |
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-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: | 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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