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Wind   /wɪnd/  /waɪnd/   Listen
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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"
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



... sail round the Cape {86} of Good Hope, and as the wind was against him, he swore a terrible oath, that he never would leave off trying. The devil heard him and doomed him to sail on to eternity, but God's angel had pity on him and showed him, how he could find deliverance through a wife, faithful ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... for a full half-minute he remained very quiet, eying it speculatively. Papayuchisew did not move a feather. But as Baree advanced, a cautious step at a time, the bird's eyes grew bigger and the feathers about his head ruffled up as if stirred by a puff of wind. He came of a fighting family, this little Papayuchisew—a savage, fearless, and killing family—and even Kazan would have taken ...
— Baree, Son of Kazan • James Oliver Curwood
... all go together, in the wind and the rain or in damp, foggy weather," was Bob Dalton's contribution. He sometimes "perpetrated verse," as he dubbed it—a reminder of his cub ...
— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates
... partly falling sidewise, partly slumping upon the ruins of itself. Simultaneously the Chrysler Building toppled. For a second or two it seemed perilously to sway. Breathless, awesome seconds. It swayed over, lurched back like a great tree in a wind. Then very slowly it swayed again and did not come back. Falling to the east, its whole giant length came down in a great arc. The descent grew faster, until, in one great swoop it crashed upon the wreckage of the Grand Central Station. The roar ...
— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings
... came into Dunkirk for a night's rest while I was staying there. She had been out all the previous day in a storm of wind and rain driving an ambulance. It was heavy with wounded, and shells were dropping very near. She—the most courageous woman that ever lived—was quite unnerved at last. The glass of the car she was driving was dim with rain and she could carry no lights, and with this swaying ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan


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