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WIND

Definition:

1. [noun] air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
   Synonyms: air current, current of air
   
   
2. [noun] a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"
   
   
3. [noun] breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
   
   
4. [noun] empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
   Synonyms: idle words, jazz, nothingness
   
   
5. [noun] an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
   Synonyms: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, hint
   
   
6. [noun] a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
   Synonyms: instrument
   
   
7. [noun] a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
   Synonyms: fart, farting, flatus, breaking
   
   
8. [noun] the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
   Synonyms: ing, twist
   
   
9. [verb] to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
   Synonyms: weave, thread, meander, wander
   
   
10. [verb] extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"
    Synonyms: curve
    
    
11. [verb] wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
    Synonyms: wrap, roll, twine
    
    
12. [verb] catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
    Synonyms: scent, nose
    
    
13. [verb] coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
    Synonyms: up
    
    
14. [verb] form into a wreath
    Synonyms: wreathe
    
    
15. [verb] raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
    Synonyms: hoist, lift
    
    

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Related Words:

• snake
• circumvolute
• spiral
• snake
• spool
• reel
• ball
• clue, clew
• coil, loop, curl
• trice, trice up
• airstream
• calm air
• breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air
• chinook, chinook wind, snow eater
• harmattan
• crosswind
• fohn, foehn
• khamsin
• Santa Ana
• high wind
• headwind
• katabatic wind, catabatic wind
• tailwind
• doldrums, the doldrums
• east wind, easter, easterly
• northwest wind, northwester
• southwester, sou'wester
• southeaster, sou'easter
• gale
• gust, blast, blow
• monsoon
• monsoon
• north wind, norther, boreas
• prevailing wind
• simoom, simoon, samiel
• south wind, souther, southerly
• squall
• thermal
• draft, draught
• west wind, wester
• bagpipe, pipes
• brass
• free-reed instrument
• kazoo
• ocarina, sweet potato
• organ, pipe organ
• organ pipe, pipe, pipework
• panpipe, pandean pipe, syrinx
• pipe, tabor pipe
• post horn
• woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood

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