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UK
/wˈɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈwɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
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a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party - one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
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the side of military or naval formation
they attacked the enemy's right flank - a unit of military aircraft
- an addition that extends a main building
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the wing of a fowl
he preferred the drumsticks to the wings - a stage area out of sight of the audience
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a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
in Britain they call a fender a wing - a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
VERB
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travel through the air; be airborne
Man cannot fly
How To Use wing In A Sentence
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- I reassured him it was secure by logging into my account and viewing his profile. Computing
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
- Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
