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Definition:

the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind";

breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him";

a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus;

a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath;

an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job";

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that''s a lot of wind"; "don''t give me any of that jazz";

a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change";

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 atmo;

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car";

form into a wreath;

coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch";

wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool";

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";

catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs";

extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake";

See Also: roll up, wrap up, sniff out, scent out, smell out, nose out

Hyponyms: bagpipe, pipes, brass, free-reed instrument, kazoo, ocarina, sweet potato, organ, pipe organ, organ pipe, pipe, pipework, panpipe, pandean pipe, syrinx, tabor pipe, post horn, woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood, airstream, calm air, 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, the doldrums, east wind, easter, easterly, northwest wind, northwester, southwester, sou'wester, southeaster, sou'easter, gale, gust, blast, blow, monsoon, north wind, norther, boreas, prevailing wind, simoom, simoon, samiel, south wind, souther, southerly, squall, thermal, draft, draught, west wind, wester, trice, trice up, spool, reel, ball, clue, clew, coil, loop, curl, snake, circumvolute, spiral

Grouped Verbs: wander

Entailments: turn

Derivational Morphology: wind up, fart, break wind, hint, suggest, guide, steer, tip off, tip, lift, raise, heave, elevator, ski tow, ski lift, hoist, hoister, winding, twist, winder, key, curler, hair curler, roller, crimper, axial rotation, axial motion, roll, meander, ribbon, thread, nose, olfactory organ, olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour, scent, curvature, curve, bend

Language Translations:
Albanian: erë		Bosnian: vjetar
Bulgarian: вятър		Catalan: vent
Chinese: 風		Croatian: vjetar
Danish: fjert and sno and vind		Dutch: wind and winden
Esperanto: vento		Estonian: mässima and tuul
Finnish: keriä and pieru and tuuli		French: tourner and vent
German: Wind and winden		Greek: άνεμος
Hebrew: רוח		Hungarian: csavar and gáz and szél
Indonesian: angin		Irish: gaoth
Italian: avvolgere and vento		Japanese: 風 and 巻く
Korean: 바람		Latin: ventus
Latvian: vējš		Malay: angin
Maltese: riħ		Norwegian: fjert and vind
Polish: wiatr and wiatry		Portuguese: enrolar and vento
Romanian: vânt		Russian: ветер and ветеры
Slovak: vietor		Slovene: naviti and veter
Spanish: flatulencia and viento		Swedish: fis and vind and vinda
Tagalog: hangin		Telugu: చుట్టు and పవనము
Turkish: rüzgâr

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