air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
<noun.phenomenon> 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
a tendency or force that influences events
<noun.phenomenon> the winds of change
breath
<noun.act> the collision knocked the wind out of him
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
<noun.communication> that's a lot of wind don't give me any of that jazz
an indication of potential opportunity
<noun.communication> he got a tip on the stock market a good lead for a job
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
<noun.artifact>
a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
<noun.act>
the act of winding or twisting
<noun.act> he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind [ verb ]
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely {Winded}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. {Wander}, {Wend}.] 1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton.
2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak.
3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. ``To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.'' --Shak.
In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer.
Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick.
Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison.
4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak.
Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue.
5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
{To wind off}, to unwind; to uncoil.
{To wind out}, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
{To wind up}. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. ``Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.'' --Dryden. ``Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.'' --Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. ``Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.'' --Waller.
Wind \Wind\, n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
Wind \Wind\ (w[i^]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd; 277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG. wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L. ventus, Skr. v[=a]ta (cf. Gr. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr. from the verb seen in Skr. v[=a] to blow, akin to AS. w[=a]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[=a]en, w[=a]jen, Goth. waian. [root]131. Cf. {Air}, {Ventail}, {Ventilate}, {Window}, {Winnow}.] 1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good. --Tusser.
Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow.
2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
3. 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.
4. Power of respiration; breath.
If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. --Shak.
5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift.
7. 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.
8. (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.
9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. --Milton.
10. (Zo["o]l.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
11. (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] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. (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. (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. (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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Wind \Wind\, v. i. 1. To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
So swift your judgments turn and wind. --Dryden.
2. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. --Thomson.
He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which . . . winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs. --Sir W. Scott.
3. To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
The lowing herd wind ?lowly o'er the lea. --Gray.
To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison. --Milton.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] 1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
3. (a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. (b) 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.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] 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.
Strong wind and towering 33-foot waves lashed the low-lying, heavily populated coastline of Andhra Pradesh state, knocking down hundreds of thatched huts, uprooting trees and downing power lines.
General Cinema, which invested only $300 million in Carter Hawley when it rode in as an ally two years ago, will wind up with control of the specialty outlets while it escapes from the lower-profit department store game.
Elsewhere in Yellowstone, wind pushed the North Fork fire to cover about 74,000 acres, a growth of 5,000 acres from reports Thursday.
Cooler temperatures and calmer wind played a role in getting the blaze contained on the west riverbank, which is about two miles from the trail, Jaquith said.
Much of the loss from a large wind storm is accounted for by many, relatively small claims from householders.
Even as this wind of reform seems to be blowing across the Hill, business as usual can be found in some shielded corners.
Improved weather _ lighter wind and higher humidity _ allowed progress against the blaze, and U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Rosalinda Ewen said many of the 2,300 firefighters had been sent home.
Elsewhere, firefighters in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming contained the last major fire burning in the forest, the 200-acre "Pocket" fire, beating a storm front expected to reach the area later today with high wind.
"Right now, we've got our fingers crossed that this wind isn't going to be that harsh," said fire information officer Dick Guth. That fire is considered about 60 percent contained.
The thousands of workers who braved icy wind to report for 6 a.m. shift appeared willing to follow the advice.
High wind warnings were issued for the eastern half of Montana, the northern mountains and eastern sections of Wyoming, the western Dakotas and the eastern foothills of Colorado.
The wind did damage some of the containment booms used to corral the oil, Iarossi said.
North Dakota was under a winter storm warning as snow and gusty north wind threatened the state with near blizzard conditions. Snowfall amounts were expected to range from 4 inches in the west to 10 inches in the east, the weather service said.
In southeast Wyoming, a high wind watch was in effect.
Their scripts wind up in the studio, where ACN's Ed Kelly and New York comedian Nancy Park record most of the voices.
Theyes said he hoped the search of files would wind up Monday night.
The balloons had reflective "terror eyes" stuck on, but the balloons blew away in wind storms and the approach was abandoned.
Out West, a high wind watch was posted this morning for the northwest Chinook zone of Wyoming and the southeast portion of the state.
That means insurers will likely wind up with a bigger bill than the $350 million paid out for that quake, Crocker said.
And here the Confederation of British Industry's latest survey of industrial trends offers encouraging straws in the wind.
Reid Weingarten, a lawyer for Cary Maultasch, another former Drexel bond salesman, said, "We have caught wind of the possibility of a hearing.
The grandiosity of the kid's reply took the wind out of me, so I didn't remind him of what finally happened to the real Roman Empire.
Thunderstorms brought high wind and hail to the South and Southwest, while snow fell in Michigan and Wisconsin and the high sizzled to 90 degrees near Miami.
"They're still coming," said Police Chief Brooks Johnson. "The wind is picking up.
Bethel reported a record low of 30 degrees below zero, with wind chill readings as cold as 70 below zero.
The legislation could wind up with an array of additional costs, however.
"This will probably wind up in an awful mess," Gillis added.
Comstock said firefighters also were worried that the Storm Creek fire and three other major fires in and around Yellowstone have created their own wind circulation, "almost like a whirlpool of wind," around the Yellowstone Basin.
Comstock said firefighters also were worried that the Storm Creek fire and three other major fires in and around Yellowstone have created their own wind circulation, "almost like a whirlpool of wind," around the Yellowstone Basin.
Three others were electrocuted when wind knocked down live electrical wires. Another person died in a building collapse, and a 60-year-old laborer died from exposure, the report said.