'Wind' definitions:
Definition of 'wind'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: wind, air current, current of air]
noun
A tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"
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" [syn: wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness]
noun
An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint]
noun
A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath [syn: wind instrument, wind]
noun
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus [syn: fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind]
noun
The act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding, twist]
verb
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander]
verb
Extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist, curve]
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" [syn: wind, wrap, roll, twine] [ant: unroll, unwind, wind off]
verb
verb
Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch" [syn: wind, wind up]
verb
Form into a wreath [syn: wreathe, wind]
verb
Definition of 'Wind'
From: GCIDE
- Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From Wind, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. Wound (wound), R. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns." --Pennant. [1913 Webster]
- Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wind'
From: GCIDE
- Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. (b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. [1913 Webster]
- To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wind'
From: GCIDE
- Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wound (wound) (rarely Winded); p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. Wander, Wend.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle. [1913 Webster]
- Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. "To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick. [1913 Webster]
- Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. [1913 Webster]
- You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. [1913 Webster]
- To wind off, to unwind; to uncoil.
- To wind out, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
- To wind up. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. "Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years." --Dryden. "Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch." --Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. "Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute." --Waller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wind'
From: GCIDE
- Wind \Wind\, n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wind'
From: GCIDE
- Wind \Wind\ (w[i^]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd; 277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG. wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L. ventus, Skr. v[=a]ta (cf. Gr. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr. from the verb seen in Skr. v[=a] to blow, akin to AS. w[=a]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[=a]en, w[=a]jen, Goth. waian. [root]131. Cf. Air, Ventail, Ventilate, Window, Winnow.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. [1913 Webster]
- Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good. --Tusser. [1913 Webster]
- Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. [1913 Webster]
- Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Power of respiration; breath. [1913 Webster]
- If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent. [1913 Webster]
- A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 7. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. --Ezek. xxxvii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This sense seems to have had its origin in the East. The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. [1913 Webster]
- Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Zool.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Boxing) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. [Slang or Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words. [1913 Webster]
- All in the wind. (Naut.) See under All, n.
- Before the wind. (Naut.) See under Before.
- Between wind and water (Naut.), in that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point of anything.
- Cardinal winds. See under Cardinal, a.
- Down the wind. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] "He went down the wind still." --L'Estrange.
- In the wind's eye (Naut.), directly toward the point from which the wind blows.
- Three sheets in the wind, unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang]
- To be in the wind, to be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]
- To carry the wind (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse.
- To raise the wind, to procure money. [Colloq.]
- To take the wind or To have the wind, to gain or have the advantage. --Bacon.
- To take the wind out of one's sails, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another; to cause one to lose enthusiasm, or momentum in an activity. [Colloq.]
- To take wind, or To get wind, to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.
- Wind band (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.
- Wind chest (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ.
- Wind dropsy. (Med.) (a) Tympanites. (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue.
- Wind egg, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg.
- Wind furnace. See the Note under Furnace.
- Wind gauge. See under Gauge.
- Wind gun. Same as Air gun.
- Wind hatch (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth.
- Wind instrument (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet, etc.
- Wind pump, a pump moved by a windmill.
- Wind rose, a table of the points of the compass, giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions.
- Wind sail. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill.
- Wind shake, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing.
- Wind shock, a wind shake.
- Wind side, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] --Mrs. Browning.
- Wind rush (Zool.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
- Wind wheel, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.
- Wood wind (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wind'
From: GCIDE
- Wind \Wind\, v. i.
- 1. To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. [1913 Webster]
- So swift your judgments turn and wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. [1913 Webster]
- And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which . . . winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The lowing herd wind ?lowly o'er the lea. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Wind'
- All in the wind,
- Before the wind,
- Down the wind,
- To be in the wind,
- To have the wind,
- To wind off,
- To wind out,
- To wind up,
- Winded,
- Winding,
- Windingly,
- against the wind,
- in the wind,
- into the wind,
- wind off,
- wind up,
- winds,
- A beating wind,
- A capful of wind,
- A sheet in the wind,
- Baffling wind,
- Between wind and water,
- Both sheets in the wind,
- Broken wind,
- Cardinal winds,
- Close to the wind,
- Cross wind,
- Dead wind,
- Down-wind,
- Drum winding,
- Fore wind,
- Head wind,
- In the eye of the wind,
- In the wind's eye,
- Land wind,
- Near the wind,
- On the wings of the wind,
- Ring winding,
- Series winding,
- Shunt winding,
- Side wind,
- Slant or wind,
- Thick wind,
- To break wind,
- To carry the wind,
- To gain the wind,
- To get wind,
- To haul the wind,
- To raise the wind,
- To take the wind,
- To take wind,
- To touch the wind,
- To wind a ship,
- Trade wind,
- Up-wind,
- Volcanic wind,
- Wind Gap,
- Wind Lake,
- Wind Point,
- Wind band,
- Wind chest,
- Wind colic,
- Wind dropsy,
- Wind egg,
- Wind furnace,
- Wind gauge,
- Wind gun,
- Wind hatch,
- Wind instrument,
- Wind pump,
- Wind rose,
- Wind rush,
- Wind sail,
- Wind shake,
- Wind shock,
- Wind side,
- Wind signal,
- Wind wheel,
- Wind-up,
- Winding engine,
- Winding sheet,
- Winding tackle,
- Wood wind,
- antitrade wind,
- break wind,
- breaking wind,
- catabatic wind,
- chinook wind,
- east wind,
- field winding,
- gentle wind,
- get wind,
- high wind,
- katabatic wind,
- long winded,
- north wind,
- northwest wind,
- prevailing wind,
- primary winding,
- second wind,
- secondary winding,
- solar wind,
- south wind,
- straw in the wind,
- tail wind,
- west wind,
- wind bell,
- wind chime,
- wind cone,
- wind deflection,
- wind exposure,
- wind farm,
- wind gage,
- wind generation,
- wind generator,
- wind harp,
- wind park,
- wind poppy,
- wind power,
- wind scale,
- wind sleeve,
- wind sock,
- wind tee,
- wind tunnel,
- wind turbine,
- wind vane,
- Broken-winded,
- Long-winded,
- Short-winded,
- Stem-winding,
- Thick-winded,
- Three sheets in the wind,
- To eat the wind out of a vessel,
- Wind Gap, PA,
- Wind Lake, WI,
- Wind Point, WI,
- Wind-break,
- Wind-broken,
- Wind-fertilized,
- Wind-plant,
- Wind-rode,
- Wind-shaken,
- Wind-sucker,
- Wind-sucking,
- ill-wind,
- long-windedly,
- pinwheel wind collector,
- self-winding,
- wind energy facility,
- winding-clothes,
- winding-sheet,
- To take the wind out of one's sails,
- wind cave national park