Wind

[wɪnd]

Definition

(noun.) the act of winding or twisting; 'he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind'.

(noun.) breath; 'the collision knocked the wind out of him'.

(noun.) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; 'that's a lot of wind'; 'don't give me any of that jazz'.

(noun.) a tendency or force that influences events; 'the winds of change'.

(noun.) air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; 'trees bent under the fierce winds'; 'when there is no wind, row'; 'the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere'.

(verb.) coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; 'wind your watch'.

(verb.) arrange or or coil around; 'roll your hair around your finger'; 'Twine the thread around the spool'; 'She wrapped her arms around the child'.

(verb.) extend in curves and turns; 'The road winds around the lake'; 'the path twisted through the forest'.

Typed by Ann--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.

(v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.

(v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

(v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

(v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.

(v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.

(v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.

(v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.

(n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.

(n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.

(n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.

(n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

(n.) Power of respiration; breath.

(n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.

(n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.

(n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.

(n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

(n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

(n.) The dotterel.

(v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

(v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.

(v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.

(v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.

(v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Edited by Greg

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Air (in motion), draught, breeze, zephyr, puff of air, breath of air.[2]. Breath, respiration.[3]. Flatulence.

v. a. [1]. Coil, twine, twist, wreathe.[2]. Turn in and out.

v. n. [1]. Twine, coil, twist, turn and twist, take a spiral course.[2]. Meander, turn in and out.

Checker: Sabina

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Coil, twine, wreath, turn, bend, curve, twist, wriggle,[See ANGRY]

Checked by Basil

Definition

n. air in motion: breath: flatulence: anything insignificant: the wind instruments in an orchestra: air impregnated with scent: a hint or suggestion of something secret publicity: (slang) a part of the body near the stomach: a disease of sheep in which the inflamed intestines are distended by gases.—v.t. (wīnd) to sound or signal by blowing: to scent: (wind) to expose to the wind: to drive hard so as to put out of breath: to allow to recover wind:—pr.p. wīnd′ing and wind′ing; pa.p. wind′ed and wound.—ns. Wind′age the difference between the size of the bore of a gun and that of the ball or shell: the influence of the wind in deflecting a missile; Wind′bag a person of mere words.—adjs. Wind′-bound hindered from sailing by a contrary wind; Wind′-brō′ken affected with convulsive breathing—of a horse; Wind′-chang′ing fickle.—ns. Wind′-chart a chart showing the direction of the wind; Wind′-chest the box or reservoir that supplies compressed air to the pipes or reeds of an organ; Wind′-drop′sy tympanites; Wind′-egg an addle-egg one soft-shelled or imperfectly formed; Wīnd′er one who sounds a horn: one who or that which winds or rolls; Wind′fall fruit blown off a tree by the wind: any unexpected money or other advantage.—adj. Windfall′en blown down by wind.—ns. Wind′-flow′er the wood-anemone; Wind′-fur′nace any form of furnace using the natural draught of a chimney without aid of a bellows; Wind′-gall a puffy swelling about the fetlock joints of a horse; Wind′-gauge an instrument for gauging or measuring the velocity of the wind: an appliance fixed to a gun by means of which the force of the wind is ascertained so that allowance may be made for it in sighting; Wind′-gun air-gun; Wind′-hō′ver the kestrel.—adv. Wind′ily.—ns. Wind′iness; Wind′-in′strument a musical instrument sounded by means of wind or by the breath.—adj. Wind′less without wind.—ns. Wind′mill a mill for performing any class of work in which fixed machinery can be employed and in which the motive-power is the force of the wind acting on a set of sails; Wind′pipe the passage for the breath between the mouth and lungs the trachea.—adj. Wind′-rode (naut.) riding at anchor with head to the wind.—ns. Wind′rose a graphic representation of the relative frequency of winds from different directions drawn with reference to a centre; Wind′row a row of hay raked together to be made into cocks a row of peats &c. set up for drying; Wind′-sail (naut.) a wide funnel of canvas used to convey a stream of air below deck.—adj. Wind′-shā′ken agitated by the wind.—ns. Wind′side the side next the wind; Wind′-suck′er the kestrel: a critic ready to fasten on any weak spot however small or unimportant.—adjs. Wind′-swift swift as the wind; Wind′-tight air-tight.—adv. Wind′ward toward where the wind blows from.—adj. toward the wind.—n. the point from which the wind blows.—adj. Wind′y.—A capful of wind a slight breeze; Before the wind carried along by the wind; Between wind and water that part of a ship's side which is now in now out of the water owing to the fluctuation of the waves: any vulnerable point; Broken wind a form of paroxysmal dyspnœa; Cast or Lay an anchor to windward to make prudent provision for the future; Down the wind moving with the wind; Fight windmills to struggle with imaginary opposition as Don Quixote tilted at the windmill; Get one's wind to recover one's breath; Get the wind of to get on the windward side of; Get to windward of to secure an advantage over; Get wind of to learn about to be informed of; Have the wind of to be on the trail of; How the wind blows or lies the state of the wind: the position of affairs; In the wind astir afoot; In the wind's eye In the teeth of the wind right against the wind; Sail close to the wind to keep the boat's head near enough to wind as to fill but not shake the sails: to be almost indecent; Second wind new powers of respiration succeeding to the first breathlessness; Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind to act wrongly and receive a crushing retribution.

v.t. to turn: to twist: to coil: to haul or hoist as by a winch: to encircle: to change: (Spens.) to weave.—v.i. to turn completely or often: to turn round something: to twist: to move spirally: to meander: to beat about the bush:—pr.p. wīnd′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. wound.—n. Wīnd′er one who winds: an instrument for winding: a twisting plant.—adj. Wīnd′ing curving full of bends: twisted.—n. a turning: a twist.—n. Wīnd′ing-en′gine a machine for hoisting.—adv. Wīnd′ingly.—ns. Wīnd′ing-machine′ a twisting or warping machine; Wīnd′ing-sheet a sheet enwrapping a corpse: the dripping grease which clings to the side of a candle; Wīnd′-up the close.—Wind a ship to turn her about end for end; Wind up to come to a conclusion: to tighten to excite very much: to give new life to: to adjust for final settlement: (Shak.) to restore to harmony.

Checker: Mollie