winding
Meaning
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- gerund of wind
- gerund of wind
Synonyms
turning round
interwine
zigzag line
wave motion
heaving sea
zigzaging
going tortuously
meandering river
Frequency
Hyphenated as
wind‧ing
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈwɪndɪŋ/
Etymology
In summary
The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“act of exposing something to the wind, airing, ventilating; act of winnowing (?)”), from winden, wynden (“to expose (something) to the air or wind, ventilate; to cause (someone) to be out of breath; to winnow (wheat); of an animal: to catch the scent of (someone or something)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerund nouns, and the present participle forms of verbs). The adjective is derived from the verb. The English word is analysable as wind (“to blow air through (a wind instrument or horn) to make a sound; to cause (someone) to become breathless; to winnow (food grain), etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives and verbs, and nouns denoting an action or the embodiment of an action).
wind
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- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- A tendency or trend.
- One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (colloquial) Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- (slang) 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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