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US
/ˈwaɪnd, ˈwɪnd/
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NOUN
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
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the act of winding or twisting
he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind -
breath
the collision knocked the wind out of him -
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
don't give me any of that jazz
that's a lot of wind - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
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a tendency or force that influences events
the winds of change -
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
trees bent under the fierce winds
the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere
when there is no wind, row -
an indication of potential opportunity
a good lead for a job
he got a tip on the stock market
VERB
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raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car -
arrange or or coil around
She wrapped her arms around the child
roll your hair around your finger
Twine the thread around the spool -
coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
wind your watch -
extend in curves and turns
The road winds around the lake
the path twisted through the forest - form into a wreath
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catch the scent of; get wind of
The dog nosed out the drugs -
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
the river winds through the hills
the path meanders through the vineyards
How To Use wind In A Sentence
- Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
- It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high. Times, Sunday Times
- Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
- The model nature of Windsor involved imitation, as of the Tudor style, to make a statement with a lot of leisure about it.
- Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
- Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography.