Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 32
Wind (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. -- Dryden.
Wind (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. -- Shak.
Wind (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
Wind (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. -- Swift.
Wind (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. -- Ezek. xxxvii. 9.
Note: This sense seems to have had its origin in the East. The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind.
Wind (n.) (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Wind (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. -- Milton.
Wind (n.) (Zool.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
Wind (n.) (Boxing) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. [Slang or Cant]
Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words.
All in the wind. (Naut.) See under All, n.
Before the wind. (Naut.) See under Before.
Between wind and water (Naut.), In that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point of anything.
Cardinal winds. See under Cardinal, a.
Down the wind. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind.
Down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] "He went down the wind still." -- L'Estrange.
In the wind's eye (Naut.), Directly toward the point from which the wind blows.
Three sheets in the wind, Unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang]
To be in the wind, To be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]
To carry the wind (Man.), To toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse.
To raise the wind, To procure money. [Colloq.]
To take the wind or To have the wind, To gain or have the advantage. -- Bacon.
To take the wind out of one's sails, To cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another; to cause one to lose enthusiasm, or momentum in an activity. [Colloq.]
To take wind, or To get wind, To be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.
Wind band (Mus.), A band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.
Wind chest (Mus.), A chest or reservoir of wind in an organ.
Wind dropsy. (Med.) (a) Tympanites.
Wind dropsy. (Med.) (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue.
Wind egg, An imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg.
Wind furnace. See the Note under Furnace.
Wind gauge. See under Gauge.
Wind gun. Same as Air gun.
Wind hatch (Mining), The opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth.
Wind instrument (Mus.), An instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet, etc.
Wind pump, A pump moved by a windmill.
Wind rose, A table of the points of the compass, giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions.
Wind sail. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel.
Wind sail. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill.
Wind shake, A crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing.
Wind shock, A wind shake.
Wind side, The side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] -- Mrs. Browning.
Wind rush (Zool.), The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Wind wheel, A motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.
Wood wind (Mus.), The flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively.
Winded (imp. & p. p.) of Wind.
Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind.
Wind (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
Wind (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To wind a ship (Naut.), To turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
Wound (imp. & p. p.) of Wind.
Winded () of Wind.
Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind.
Wind (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns." -- Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. -- Pope.
That blast was winded by the king. -- Sir W. Scott.
Wind (n.) 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" [syn: wind, air current, current of air]
Wind (n.) A tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change".
Wind (n.) Breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him".
Wind (n.) Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn: wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness].
Wind (n.) An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint].
Wind (n.) A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath [syn: wind instrument, wind].
Wind (n.) A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus [syn: fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind].
Wind (n.) The act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding, twist].
Wind (v.) 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" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander].
Wind (v.) Extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist, curve].
Wind (v.) Arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" [syn: wind, wrap, roll, twine] [ant: unroll, unwind, wind off].
Wind (v.) Catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind].
Wind (v.) Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch" [syn: wind, wind up].
Wind (v.) Form into a wreath [syn: wreathe, wind].
Wind (v.) Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: hoist, lift, wind].
Windage (n.) (Gun.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
Windage (n.) The retarding force of air friction on a moving object
Windage (n.) The space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun.
Windage (n.) Exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) [syn: windage, wind exposure].
Windage (n.) The deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind [syn: windage, wind deflection].
Windas (n.) See 3d Windlass. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Windbore (n.) The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. -- Ansted.
Windbound (a.) (Naut.) Prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust. [R.]
'T would wind-break a mule to vie burdens with her. -- Ford.
Wind-break (n.) A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. [Local, U. S.]
Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse. --Youatt.
Wind down (Phrasal verb) 轉動手柄以降低；（鐘發條）鬆弛；進展慢下來；鬆懈，放鬆一下；使平靜 (Of a mechanism, especially one operated by clockwork) Gradually lose power.
Wind down (Phrasal verb) (Informal) (Of a person) Relax after stress or excitement.
‘I sank into a hot bath in order to wind down.’
Wind down (Phrasal verb) (Also wind something down) Draw or bring gradually to a close.
‘Business began to wind down as people awaited the new regime.’
Wind down (-- phrasal verb with wind verb) （勞累或擔心之後）放鬆下來 To gradually relax after doing something that has made you tired or worried.
// When he goes on holiday, it takes him the first couple of days just to wind down.
Winder (n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
Winder (n.) (Arch.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.
Winder (v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan. [Prov. Eng.]
Winder (n.) A blow taking away the breath. [Slang]
Winder (v. i.) To wither; to fail. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Winder (n.) A worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism).
Winder (n.) Mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) [syn: winder, key].
Winder (n.) Mechanical device around which something can be wound.
Winder, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 10201
Housing Units (2000): 4098
Land area (2000): 10.835297 sq. miles (28.063289 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.359741 sq. miles (0.931725 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.195038 sq. miles (28.995014 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83420
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.996495 N, 83.720873 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30680
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Winder, GA
Winder
Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden." -- Bacon.
Windfall (n.) An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. -- B. Jonson.
Windfall (n.) Fruit that has fallen from the tree.
Windfall (n.) A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce].
Windfallen (a.) Blown down by the wind.
Wind-fertilized (a.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
Windflower (n.) The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Windhover (n.) The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
Windiness (n.) The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.
Windiness (n.) Fullness of wind; flatulence.
Windiness (n.) Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.
Windiness (n.) Tumor; puffiness.
Winding (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Winding (a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
Winding (n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
Windingly (adv.) In a winding manner.
Windlace (n. & v.) See Windlass.
Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
Windlass (v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
Windle (n.) The redwing.
Windless (a.) Having no wind; calm.
Windless (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.
Windlestrae (n.) Alt. of Windlestraw
Windlestraw (n.) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.
Windore (n.) A window.
Window (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
Window (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
Windowed (imp. & p. p.) of Window.
Windowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Window.
Window (v. t.) To furnish with windows.
Window (v. t.) To place at or in a window.
Window (n.) (Glass) (A1) [ C ] 窗，窗戶，窗口 A space usually filled with glass in the wall of a building or in a vehicle, to allow light and air in and to allow people inside the building to see out.
// Is it all right if I open/close the window?
// He caught me staring out of the window.
// I saw a child's face at the window.
// She has some wonderful plants in the window (= on a surface at the bottom of the window).
// I was admiring the cathedral's stained-glass windows.
// Have you paid the window cleaner (= person whose job is to clean the outside of windows)?
// Window frames.
// A window ledge.
Window (n.) (Glass) [ S ] (Literary) （讓人瞭解其他情況或經歷的）視窗 Something that makes it possible for you to see and learn about a situation or experience that is different from your own.
// The film provides a window on the immigrant experience.
Window (n.) (Glass) [ C ] （信封上的）透明紙窗 A transparent rectangle on the front of an envelope, through which you can read the address written on the letter inside.
Window (n.) (Glass) [ C ] （商店的）陳列窗口，櫥窗 The decorative arrangement of goods behind the window at the front of a shop, in addition to the window itself.
// How much is the jacket in the window?
// The shop windows are wonderful around Christmas time.
Window (n.) (Computer) (B1) [ C ] （電腦的）視窗，窗口 A separate area on a computer screen that shows information and can be moved around.
// To minimize/ maximize a window.
Window (n.) (Opportunity) [ C ] 時機；機會 A period when there is an opportunity to do something.
// I'm busy this week but there might be a window on Friday.
// If a window of opportunity (= an opportunity) should present itself, I'd take advantage of it.
Idiom:
Go out (of) the window完全消失，不再存在 If a quality, principle, or idea goes out of the window, it does not exist anymore.
// Then people start drinking and sense goes out of the window.
Windowed (a.) Having windows or openings.
Windowless (a.) Destitute of a window.
Windowpane (n.) See Pane, n., (3) b.
Windowpane (n.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
Window-shop (v. i.) [ I ] (-pp-) 只逛街，不購物 To look at the displays in retail store windows without going inside the stores to make purchases.
// They go to the shopping centre just to window-shop.
Window-shopper (n.) (pl. Window-shoppers) 櫥窗購物者；只逛街不買東西的人 A person who window-shops.
Window shopping (n.) [ U ] 瀏覽商店櫥窗（無意購買） The activity of spending time looking at the goods on sale in shop windows without intending to buy any of them.
Windows (n.) [ U ] (Trademark IT) A brand name for a software system produced by Microsoft with many commonly used software products.
// Click here to download Windows updates.
Windowsill (n.) [ C ] (Also Window ledge) 窗臺；窗沿 A shelf below a window, either inside or outside a building.
// He has a few plants in pots on the windowsill.
Windowy (a.) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Wind-plant (n.) A windflower.
Wind-rode (a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
Windrow (n.) A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
Windrow (n.) Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.
Windrow (n.) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
Windrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Windrow.
Windrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Windrow.
Windrow (v. t.) To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.
Windsor (n.) A town in Berkshire, England.
Windstorm (n.) 暴風 A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
European windstorm (n.) 歐洲大型風暴 Is a name given to the strongest extratropical cyclones which occur across the continent of Europe.[2] They form as cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure. They are most common in the autumn and winter months. On average, the month when most windstorms form is January. The seasonal average is 4.6 windstorms.[3] Deep low pressure areas are relatively common over the North Atlantic, sometimes starting as nor'easters off the New England coast, and frequently track across the North Atlantic Ocean towards western Europe, past the north coast of Britain and Ireland and into the Norwegian Sea. However, when they track further south they can affect almost any country in Europe. Commonly affected countries include the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland, but any country in Central Europe, Northern Europe and especially Western Europe is occasionally struck by such a storm system.
The strong wind phenomena intrinsic to European windstorms, that give rise to "damage footprints" at the surface, can be placed into three categories, namely the "warm jet", the "cold jet" and the "sting jet". These phenomena vary in terms of physical mechanisms, atmospheric structure, spatial extent, duration, severity level, predictability, and location relative to cyclone and fronts.[1]
On average these storms cause economic damage €1.9 billion per year, and insurance losses of €1.4 billion per year (1990–1998). They rank as the second highest cause of global natural catastrophe insurance loss (after U.S. hurricanes).[4]
Wind-sucker (n.) A horse given to wind-sucking
Wind-sucker (n.) The kestrel.
Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.
Windtight (a.) So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.
Windward (n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
Windward (a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.
Windward (adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
Windy (a.) 刮風的；多風的；風大的；受風的 Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." -- M. Arnold.
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. -- Shak.
Windy (a.) Next the wind; windward.
It keeps on the windy side of care. -- Shak.
Windy (a.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
Windy (a.) Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
Windy (a.) Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic." -- Arbuthnot.
Windy (a.) Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." -- Milton.
Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored. -- South.
Windy (a.) Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff" [syn: {blowy}, {breezy}, {windy}].
Windy (a.) Not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: {airy}, {impractical}, {visionary}, {Laputan}, {windy}].
Windy (a.) Resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability; "a windy dash home".
Windy (a.) Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: {long- winded}, {tedious}, {verbose}, {windy}, {wordy}].
Wine (n.) 葡萄酒；水果酒；酒；深紅色，紫紅色；使人沉醉的東西 The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." -- Piers Plowman.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. -- Prov. xx. 1.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. -- Milton.
Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called {red}, {white}, {spirituous}, {dry}, {light}, {still}, etc.
Wine (n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.