wind
nounEtymology
From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates Cognate with Yola weend, wyeene (“wind”), North Frisian win, winj (“wind”), Saterland Frisian Wíend (“wind”), West Frisian wyn (“wind”), Alemannic German wend, wind, winn, wénn (“wind”), Bavarian bint, Wind (“wind”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno bint (“wind”), Dutch wind (“wind”), German and German Low German Wind (“wind”), Luxembourgish Wand (“wind”), Yiddish ווינט (vint, “wind”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vind (“wind”), Faroese and Icelandic vindur (“wind”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds, “wind”), Latin ventus (“wind”), Welsh gwynt (“wind”), Sanskrit वात (vā́ta, “wind”), Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.
Definitions
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences…
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.
- As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.
- The winds in Chicago are fierce.
Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- the wind of a cannon ball
- the wind of a bellows
The ability to breathe easily.
- After the second lap he was already out of wind.
- The fall knocked the wind out of him.
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News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- to catch wind of something
- Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.
- Police got wind of the lottery, tried to track it down.
A tendency or trend.
- the wind of change
- But many of those issues failed to draw Spanish voters, or even scared them, and the country’s election results went contrary to Europe’s political winds.
One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans
One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
Flatus.
- to pass wind
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.
The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
A direction from which the wind may blow
A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- the four winds
- Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
- At daylight I found we were; in a beautiful little harbour, formed by a coral reef about two hundred yards from shore, and perfectly secure in every wind.
Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected…
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
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.
- Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
A bird, the dotterel.
The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause…
The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- Invest in wind for example through the municipality's energy company
- In China, onshore wind is cheaper than gas-fired power, at $77 per MWh versus $113, but it is much more expensive still than coal-generated electricity, at $44, while solar PV power is at $109.
- And a rapid move to solar and wind is being achieved by taking the fossil fuel companies out of the energy equation
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; / To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! / His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, / And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
- Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth
To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical…
To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- The boxer was winded during round two.
To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
To expose to the wind
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by scent.
- The hounds winded the game.
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- to wind thread on a spool or into a ball
- Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.
To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.
To entwist
To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- Vines wind round a pole. The river winds through the plain.
- He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which[…]winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
- The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
To have complete control over
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
- Gifts blind the vviſe, and bribes do pleaſe, / And vvinde all other witneſſes: […]
- Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
To introduce by insinuation
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- You have contrived[…]to wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.
- 'Tis pleasant to see what little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- to wind a rope with twine
To cause to move by exerting a winding force
To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- Quickly she slammed the door shut and panicking wound the window up as fast as her slippery fingers would allow.
To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
The act of winding or turning
The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
A surname
The neighborhood
- synonymdraft
- synonymgale
- synonymflatus
- synonymwind
- neighborblizzard
- neighborbreeze
- neighborcyclone
- neighbordust devil
- neighborgale
- neighborgust
- neighborhigh wind
- neighborhurricane
- neighbornor'easter
- neighbornortheaster
- neighbornorthwester
- neighborsou'easter
Derived
Alabama wind chime, a sheet in the wind, as the wind blows, a straw shows how the wind blows, bag of wind, between wind and water, blow wind up someone's skirt, blow with the wind, break-wind, burn-the-wind, by-the-wind sailor, candle in the wind, cast caution to the wind, catch wind of, close to the wind, don't pee in the wind and tell me it's raining, don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining, down the wind, fart in a wind storm, fart in the wind, finger in the wind, finger to the wind, floating wind turbine, follow the wind, four sheets in the wind, four sheets to the wind, free as the wind, gain the wind, geostrophic wind, geostrophic wind level, get one's wind back, get the wind up, get wind, get wind in one's jaws, get wind of, gone with the wind, go with the wind, have the wind up, have wind in one's jaw, head to wind · +175 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wind. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wind. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at wind
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA