wind up
wind up
v.
twist a knob in order to make something run (e.g. a watch, toy, clock, etc.) up; end, be finished (e.g. a meeting); finish something, bring something to a close (e.g a project, meeting); reach a certain state or course of action because of something else
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
wind up
Verb
1. finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
(synonym) finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, finish
(hypernym) act, move
(derivation) completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
2. give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
(hypernym) swing
(classification) baseball, baseball game, ball
3. stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
(synonym) arouse, sex, excite, turn on
(hypernym) stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
(hyponym) tempt
4. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
(synonym) wind
(hypernym) tighten, fasten
(entail) turn
wind up
znaleźć się gdzieś/w pewnej sytuacji
wind someone up
rozzłościć kogoś
wind something up
kończyć, zamykać
wind up
bring or come to an end, finish, stop The meeting wound up about midnight and we were able to go home.