WIND
Definition:
- [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
- [noun] a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"
- [noun] breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
- [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
- [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
- [noun] a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
Synonyms: instrument
- [noun] a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
Synonyms: fart, farting, flatus, breaking
- [noun] the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
Synonyms: ing, twist
- [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
- [verb] extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"
Synonyms: curve
- [verb] wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
Synonyms: wrap, roll, twine
- [verb] catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
Synonyms: scent, nose
- [verb] coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
Synonyms: up
- [verb] form into a wreath
Synonyms: wreathe
- [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