What's the difference between perambulation and wend?

Perambulation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of perambulating; traversing.
  • (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.
  • (n.) A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
  • (2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
  • (3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
  • (4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
  • (5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
  • (6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.

Wend


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Wene.
  • (v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
  • (v. i.) To turn round.
  • (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
  • (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
  • (2) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
  • (3) Conversely, lines such as "Forthi, iwysse, bi zowre wylle, wende me bihoues" are incomprehensible to the general reader.
  • (4) The mighty Chao Phraya river, which wends through the city, is predicted to break its banks over the weekend when coastal tides swell its volume, threatening to inundate central areas.
  • (5) Indeed, another word that is frequently popping up in civil discourse these days is Wende : “turning point”.
  • (6) President Xi, like his predecessor Hu Jintao, speaks often about the Confucian virtues of harmony ( hexie ) and stability ( wending ).
  • (7) The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.
  • (8) This article investigates causes of death between 1854 and 1884 among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, a nineteenth-century European immigrant community.
  • (9) When I viewed the flat post-Wende, it had been empty for five years and had simply been forgotten about in the chaos.
  • (10) And it is also taking a painfully long time to wend its way through the legislative process.
  • (11) The discard ban is just one element of the new CFP, which has been wending its way through the corridors of Brussels for more than two years.
  • (12) The issue is now likely to wend its way back up the legal system until it reaches the US supreme court once again for an ultimate decision.
  • (13) In an online poll of doctors, 1,900 out of 2,600 respondents said it was appropriate to pull the legislation even as it wends its way through the House of Lords.

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