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Meaning of 'wind' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Wind [ n.]
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
- Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- Power of respiration; breath.
- Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
- Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
- 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.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- The dotterel.
2 . Wind [ 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.
- To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
- 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.
3 . Wind [ 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.
- To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
- To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
- To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Meaning of 'wind' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . wind [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an indication of potential opportunity
Example in sentence:
  • a good lead for a job;
  • he got a tip on the stock market
Meaning (2):
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Example in sentence:
  • don't give me any of that jazz;
  • that's a lot of wind
Meaning (3):
- the act of winding or twisting
Example in sentence:
  • he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind
Meaning (4):
- breath
Example in sentence:
  • the collision knocked the wind out of him
Meaning (5):
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
Example in sentence:
  • the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere;
  • trees bent under the fierce winds;
  • when there is no wind, row
Meaning (6):
- a tendency or force that influences events
Example in sentence:
  • the winds of change
7 . wind [ v]
Meaning (7):
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
Example in sentence:
  • hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
Meaning (8):
- arrange or or coil around
Example in sentence:
  • roll your hair around your finger;
  • She wrapped her arms around the child;
  • Twine the thread around the spool
Meaning (9):
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
Example in sentence:
  • sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body;
  • the path meanders through the vineyards;
  • the river winds through the hills
Meaning (10):
- catch the scent of; get wind of
Example in sentence:
  • The dog nosed out the drugs
Meaning (11):
- extend in curves and turns
Example in sentence:
  • the path twisted through the forest;
  • The road winds around the lake
Meaning (12):
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
Example in sentence:
  • wind your watch

Nearby Words:

win wince winced wincer wincey winch wincing wincopipe wind-break wind-broken

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