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  • 1winding — winding, sinuous, serpentine, tortuous, flexuous can all mean curving first one way and then another. Winding, the general and the ordinary term, often implies spiral ascent {winding stairs} {a winding mountain road} When applied to things in a… …

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  • 2winding — [adj] bending, turning ambiguous, anfractuous, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curving, devious, flexuous, gyrating, indirect, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, spiraling, tortuous,… …

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  • 3straight — 1. adjective 1) a long, straight road Syn: unswerving, undeviating, linear, as straight as an arrow, uncurving, unbending Ant: winding, zigzag 2) that picture isn t straight Syn …

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  • 4Straight River (southern Minnesota) — Geobox River name = Straight River native name = other name = other name1 = image size = 300 image caption = The Straight River in Owatonna in 2007 country = United States state = Minnesota region = region1 = district = district1 = city = city1 …

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  • 5straight — 1. adjective 1) a long, straight road Syn: direct, linear, unswerving, undeviating 2) that picture isn t straight Syn: level, even, in line, aligned, square, vertical, upright …

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  • 6winding — 1. noun the windings of the stream Syn: twist, turn, turning, bend, loop, curve, zigzag, meander 2. adjective the winding country roads Syn: twisting and turning, meandering, windy, twisty, bending, curvi …

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  • 7winding — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. turning, gyrating, gyring, spiraling, twisting, snaky, serpentine, convoluted, dextrorse, dextrorsal, sinistrorse. Ant. straight*, direct*, vertical*. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Repeatedly curving in alternate… …

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  • 8STRAIGHT — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index straight adjective accepted, direct adverb directly bent noun bend, bias, inclination, irreg …

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  • 9Filament winding — is a fabrication technique for creating composite material structures. The process involves winding filaments under varying amounts of tension over a male mould or mandrel. The mandrels rotates while a carriage moves horizontally, laying down… …

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  • 10road — n. 1) to resurface; surface a road 2) an impassable; rocky (also fig.); rough (also fig.); smooth (also fig.); straight; winding road 3) a back, country; dirt (AE), unpaved; macadam; main, trunk (BE); mountain; paved, surfaced; ring (BE);… …

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