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windup
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windup
n.
summary, conclusion, final part; movements a pitcher does in preparing to pitch the ball (Baseball)
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Wind-up
Wind-up or windup may refer to:
- Pain wind-up, central sensitization caused by repeated stimulation of C nociceptors
- Windup, one of the two legal pitching positions in baseball
- Wind-up Records, a New York record label
- "Wind It Up (Rewound)", a single by The Prodigy
- "Wind Up", a song from the 2001 album Full Collapse by post-hardcore band Thursday
- "Wind Up", a song by Foo Fighters from their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape
- "Wind Up", a song by Jethro Tull off their 1971 album Aqualung
- Integral windup, an error condition that occurs in a PID controller
- Wind-up toy, a toy powered by a wound clockwork motor
- Winding-up, or liquidation of a company
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windup
Noun
1. a concluding action
(synonym) completion, culmination, closing, mop up
(hypernym) termination, ending, conclusion
(hyponym) consummation
(derivation) finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish
Adjective
1. operated by a mechanism; "windup toys"
(synonym) windup(a)
(similar) mechanical
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windup
upwind
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windup
Synonyms and related words:
Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, close, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, full development, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, maturation, maturity, omega, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, topping off
Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, close, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, full development, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, maturation, maturity, omega, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, topping off
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