When doing research on the world of the play, look for information about: 1  economic environment--class, wealth and poverty. 2  political environment--the relationship of the characters to the form of government under which they live. 3  social environment--the mores and social institutions under which the characters live.
A meander, in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river. A meander forms when moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its valley, and the inner part of the river has less energy and deposits silt. stream of any volume may assume a meandering course, alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley axis. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake forms.
: incised meander; specifically: one with slopes of about the same steepness on each side of the stream â compare ingrown meander.ADVERTISEMENT.ote that some information is displayed differently in the Unabridged. To access the complete Unabridged Dictionary, with an additional 300,000 words that aren't in our free dictionary, start a free trial.