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Wind   /wɪnd/  /waɪnd/   Listen
Wind

noun
1.
Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.  Synonyms: air current, current of air.  "When there is no wind, row" , "The radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
2.
A tendency or force that influences events.
3.
Breath.
4.
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.  Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, nothingness.  "Don't give me any of that jazz"
5.
An indication of potential opportunity.  Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, tip.  "A good lead for a job"
6.
A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath.  Synonym: wind instrument.
7.
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.  Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, flatus.
8.
The act of winding or twisting.  Synonyms: twist, winding.
verb
(when related to turns: past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding)  (when related to the air: past & past part. winded; pres. part. winding)
1.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.  Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave.  "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
2.
Extend in curves and turns.  Synonyms: curve, twist.  "The path twisted through the forest"
3.
Arrange or or coil around.  Synonyms: roll, twine, wrap.  "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"  Antonym: unwind.
4.
Catch the scent of; get wind of.  Synonyms: nose, scent.
5.
Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.  Synonym: wind up.
6.
Form into a wreath.  Synonym: wreathe.
7.
Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.  Synonyms: hoist, lift.



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"Wind" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mogollon. Old Gray Fox himself had taken the field and was out with all the horsemen from Whipple and Sandy, and Stannard had joined them, and they were ripping up the Tonto country in a way that bade fair to wind up the war. How had he heard? Why, runners—Apache-Mohaves—'Tonio's people. Kwonahelka and some of his ilk had managed to keep going between them, slipping through or skipping round the Tontos like so many "ghost goats." It was only here, round about Almy, the hostiles ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... world, the doing of evil and the sin that is wrought of men is violent and furious as the storm wind and rain. Therefore have the compassionate Buddhas exhorted men to seek their refuge ...
— Buddhist Psalms • Shinran Shonin
... encountered Morgan on the street, not far from the little catalpa tree that was having a bitter struggle against wind and drouth, he invited the city marshal to accompany him to his office. News that would tickle his ears, he ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden
... few hours' relaxation in this fine city. Still it made one reflect that the French are indeed a nation of soldiers which we are not. We obviously have not the same pride in the paraphernalia of war, and that shows which way the wind blows. I also saw a number of poilus going on leave and returning to the line. They looked very quiet and patient, but without a great deal of enthusiasm showing on the surface. Later on I saw French ...
— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley
... from a house in Park Crescent, to which he had carried home a valuable book restored to strength and some degree of aged beauty, from one of the narrow openings on the east side of Regent Street, came a girl, fighting with the wind and a weak-ribbed umbrella, and ran buffeted against him, notwithstanding his endeavour to leave her room. The collision was very slight, but she looked up and begged his pardon. It was Alice. Before he could ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald


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