What's the difference between meandering and paddle?

Meandering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meander

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
  • (2) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
  • (3) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
  • (4) This packing loosens towards the middle of the junction until, at its basal extremity, the septa (ridges in replicas) are widely separated and follow independent meandering courses.
  • (5) The result is a meandering popularism that ignores questions about where the country might end up and fixates on the most cynical of political games.
  • (6) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
  • (7) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
  • (8) I wanted to write a book that was big and odd and meandering, and I did and it was.
  • (9) Subtractive feedback models must continuously adjust the axis of rotation throughout a saccade, and they generate meandering, dysmetric gaze saccades.
  • (10) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
  • (11) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
  • (12) Some meandering evaginations were also observed as, rarely, were small spherical or bulbous projections.
  • (13) The similarity in size of the openings of T tubules and caveolae and the meandering path of the tubules are sufficient to account for the paucity of observed openings.
  • (14) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
  • (15) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
  • (16) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
  • (17) London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, who has spent the week defending his organisation against blame for the G4S meltdown, said he believed that while the torch meandered through London it would stoke enthusiasm as it had among the millions who have seen it criss-cross the country over the past 63 days.
  • (18) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).
  • (19) The endoplasmic reticulum in such cells is reduced to a few (perhaps only one) meandering, broad cisternae, which delimit broad fields of cytoplasmic matrix occupied almost solely by scattered, single ribosomes.
  • (20) As the match threatened to meander away from United, Giggs finally introduced Van Persie, for a first appearance due to a knee injury since 19 March, and Welbeck, on 66 minutes.

Paddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
  • (v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
  • (v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
  • (v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
  • (v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
  • (v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
  • (v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
  • (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
  • (v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
  • (v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
  • (v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
  • (v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party.
  • (2) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (3) We have found it to be efficacious in taking a proximal skin paddle, which decreases donor site morbidity and allows for a long vascular pedicle.
  • (4) Also, one or two skin paddles for cover and lining flaps are carried either by the cutaneous scapular and parascapular branches of the circumflex scapular vessels or by surgically split segments of the latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
  • (5) Following the recent announcement from Naoto Kan, the prime minister, that Japan would "start from scratch" with regard to future nuclear power expansion, we can be sure that there is plenty of paddling in Tokyo.
  • (6) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
  • (7) Although there was partial epithelial loss of the skin "paddle" in 7 cases, in each case the surviving dermis became resurfaced with epithelium.
  • (8) On each trial subjects were instructed either to produce the syllable "pa" or not respond when they detected movement of a small paddle held between the lips.
  • (9) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
  • (10) Uricult dip-slide paddles provide an inexpensive, efficient way to screen urine.
  • (11) We address the chief safety issues in helicopter defibrillation by providing measurements of the transient leakage current resulting from contact with a paddle and tested in-flight electronic interference and survey the defibrillation experience of helicopter programs.
  • (12) Paddle past women washing their colourful saris in the waterways, farmers herding their swimming ducks to pastures new and see wildlife that would otherwise have been scared away, before taking a dip to cool off.
  • (13) A technique of intraabdominal paddle placement for internal countershock has been used to successfully manage this complication.
  • (14) Each of these bones is fully differentiated by Gosner stage 31 (hindlimb in paddle stage) during premetamorphosis.
  • (15) SWANSEA CITY Accounts for the year to 31 May 2014 Ownership Martin Morgan, 23.7%; Brian Katzen, 21.1%; Swansea City Supporters Society Limited (supporters trust) 21.1%; chairman Huw Jenkins 13.2%; Robert Davies 10.5% Turnover 13th highest, £99m (up from £67m in 2013) Match income £9m Media £81m Commercial and other £9m Wage bill Joint 14th highest, £63m (up from £49m in 2013) Wages as proportion of turnover 64% Profit before tax £1m (down from £21m in 2013) Net debt Nil; £2m cash in the bank Interest payable £0.015m Highest-paid director Huw Jenkins, £550,000 State they’re in The Swans’ epic paddle from bottom division and insolvency to Premier League and new stadium owned by a consortium of fan-businessmen, including 20% held by the supporters trust, was committed to documentary with A Jack to a King.
  • (16) The cadaver injections were evaluated to determine the size and shape of the skin island used to reconstruct defects of the head, neck, and upper trunk with an extended skin paddle off the pectoralis major muscle.
  • (17) There was septal damage in the heart of one paddle dog.
  • (18) Both DZP and PTZ elevated paddling and wall progression, but only PTZ elevated head and body tremor scores.
  • (19) The emulsions were prepared by paddle mixing as a method of low-shear emulsification.
  • (20) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).