name
Meaning 1
A surname
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name
A surname
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noun
Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
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noun
Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
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noun
The ability to breathe easily.
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noun
News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
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Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A tendency or trend.
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noun
One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: alchemy, human-sciences, philosophy, pseudoscience, sciences
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noun
One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
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noun
Flatus.
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Usage: colloquial, uncountable
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noun
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
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noun
The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
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noun
Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
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noun
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
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Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A bird, the dotterel.
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noun
The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: boxing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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noun
(usually as the wind) Something irrelevant; something that can be explained away.
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Usage: countable, ironic, slang, uncountable
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noun
Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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noun
The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
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verb
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
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Usage: UK, transitive
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verb
To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
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Usage: UK, transitive
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verb
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To perceive or follow by scent.
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verb
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
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Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: twine
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verb
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
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verb
To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
the act of winding or twisting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: winding, twist
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Broader terms: rotation, rotary motion
noun
breath
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Broader terms: exhalation, expiration, breathing out
noun
a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
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Synonyms: fart, farting, flatus, breaking wind
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Broader terms: reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
noun
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wind instrument
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Broader terms: musical instrument, instrument
Narrower terms: brass, brass instrument, free-reed instrument, kazoo, ocarina, sweet potato, organ, pipe organ, organ pipe, pipe, pipework, post horn, whistle, woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood
noun
an indication of potential opportunity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, hint
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Broader terms: guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
noun
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness
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Broader terms: talk, talking
noun
a tendency or force that influences events
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Broader terms: influence
noun
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: air current, current of air
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Broader terms: weather, weather condition, conditions, atmospheric condition
Narrower terms: airstream, calm air, calm, 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, east wind, easter, easterly, northwest wind, northwester, southwester, sou'wester, southeaster, sou'easter, gale, gust, blast, blow, monsoon, north wind, northerly, norther, boreas, prevailing wind, simoom, simoon, samiel, south wind, souther, southerly, squall, thermal, draft, draught, west wind, wester
verb
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hoist, lift
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Broader terms: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
Narrower terms: trice, trice up
verb
form into a wreath
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wreathe
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Broader terms: intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
verb
coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wind up
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Broader terms: tighten, fasten
verb
arrange or or coil around
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wrap, roll, twine
Antonyms: unwind
Broader terms: move, displace
Narrower terms: spool, reel, ball, clue, clew, coil, loop, curl
verb
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: weave, thread, meander, wander
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Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: snake
verb
catch the scent of; get wind of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: scent, nose
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Broader terms: smell
verb
extend in curves and turns
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: twist, curve
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Broader terms: be
Narrower terms: circumvolute, spiral, snake
History
* As an English surname, from wind (both senses). This surname also appears in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German with the same senses, such as Wint. Compare De Wind. * Also as a German surname, variant of Wendt.
From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h2wéh1n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h2wéh1n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h2weh1- (“to blow”). Cognates Cognate with Yola weend, wyeene (“wind”), North Frisian win, winj (“wind”), Saterland Frisian Wíend (“wind”), West Frisian wyn (“wind”), Alemannic German wend, wind, winn, wénn (“wind”), Bavarian bint, Wind (“wind”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno bint (“wind”), Dutch wind (“wind”), German and German Low German Wind (“wind”), Luxembourgish Wand (“wind”), Yiddish ווינט (vint, “wind”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vind (“wind”), Faroese and Icelandic vindur (“wind”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds, “wind”), Latin ventus (“wind”), Welsh gwynt (“wind”), Sanskrit वात (vā́ta, “wind”), Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.
From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
Across languages
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