wind

Found in thesaurus: influence, talk, counsel, musical instrument, instinctive reflex, rotation, locomote, fasten, enlace, bring up

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v. turn, coil; twist around, convolute; meander; bind, bandage; be bound; be twisted around; change direction

n. act of twisting or turning; bend; curve

v. air out, ventilate; blow a wind instrument; make sound by blowing; search out by smell; cause to be out of breath; catch one´s breath

n. breeze; direction of the wind; gale; breath; wind instrument (Music); intestinal gas; social or political current; hint; nonsense; conceit

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WIND

WIND may refer to:

WIND (spacecraft), a satellite and NASA science spacecraft launched in 1994
WIND (AM), an American radio station based in Chicago. Illinois
WIND Hellas, a Greek telecommunications provider
WIND Telecomunicazioni SpA, an Italian telecommunications provider
WIND Mobile, a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider

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Wind

Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in the Solar System occur on Neptune and Saturn. Winds have various aspects, an important one being its velocity; another the density of the gas involved; another is the energy content or wind energy of a wind.

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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) air current, current of air
(hypernym) weather, weather condition, atmospheric condition
(hyponym) airstream
(substance-meronym) air
2. a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"
(hypernym) influence
3. breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
(hypernym) exhalation, expiration, breathing out
4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
(synonym) idle words, jazz, nothingness
(hypernym) talk, talking
5. an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
(synonym) tip, lead, steer, confidential information, hint
(hypernym) guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
(synonym) wind instrument
(hypernym) musical instrument, instrument
(hyponym) bagpipe, pipes
(part-meronym) bell
7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
(synonym) fart, farting, flatus, breaking wind
(hypernym) reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
8. the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
(synonym) winding, twist
(hypernym) rotation, rotary motion
(derivation) wind up

Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) weave, thread, meander, wander
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) snake
(verb-group) wander
2. extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"
(synonym) curve
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) circumvolute
3. wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
(synonym) wrap, roll, twine
(antonym) unwind, wind off, unroll
(hypernym) move, displace
(hyponym) spool
(derivation) winder
4. catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
(synonym) scent, nose
(hypernym) smell
5. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
(synonym) wind up
(hypernym) tighten, fasten
(entail) turn
(derivation) winding, twist
6. form into a wreath
(synonym) wreathe
(hypernym) intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
7. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
(synonym) hoist, lift
(hypernym) raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
(hyponym) trice, trice up

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Wind (der)

nm. wind, breeze

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wind (de)

n. wind

winden

v. wind, wreathe