'Winding' definitions:
Definition of 'winding'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous]
adjective
Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding]
noun
Definition of 'Winding'
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 'Winding'
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 'Winding'
From: GCIDE
- Winding \Wind"ing\, n. [From Wind to blow.] (Naut.) A call by the boatswain's whistle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Winding'
From: GCIDE
- Winding \Wind"ing\, a. [From Wind to twist.] Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Winding'
From: GCIDE
- Winding \Wind"ing\, n.
- 1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. [1913 Webster]
- To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as (Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] [1913 Webster]
- Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
- Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.
- Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Winding'
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]
Synonyms of 'winding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- bending,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circumvolution,
- convoluted,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- crooked,
- curving,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- indirect,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- out-of-the-way,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- stray,
- swerving,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wave,
- waving,
- whorled,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
Words containing 'Winding'
- 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,
- Wind,
- Winded,
- 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