Meaning of wind | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
2. Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
   countable, uncountable
3. A surname
4. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
   countable, uncountable
5. In the same direction the wind is blowing.
6. The ability to breathe easily.
   countable, uncountable
7. Nautical Downwind.
   Nautical
8. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
9. Likely to occur; in the offing: Big changes are in the wind.
10. A tendency or trend.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
11. Nautical In the same or nearly the same direction as the wind is blowing from.
    Nautical
12. One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
    countable, uncountable
13. In a direction that is not as close as possible to the direction the wind is blowing from.
14. One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
    countable, uncountable
15. Close to the wind.
16. Flatus.
    colloquial, uncountable
17. To rob of an advantage; deflate.
18. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
    countable, uncountable
19. Upwind.
20. The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
    countable, uncountable
21. West Indian.
22. A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
    countable, uncountable
23. A current of air, especially a natural one that moves along or parallel to the ground.
24. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
    countable, uncountable
25. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
    countable, uncountable
26. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
    countable, uncountable
27. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
28. A bird, the dotterel.
    countable, uncountable
29. The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.”

“As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.”

“The winds in Chicago are fierce.”

“There was a sudden gust of wind, on which spores were borne away.”

“The window was banging in the wind.”

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.”

“the wind of a cannon ball”

“the wind of a bellows”

“After the second lap he was already out of wind.”

“The fall knocked the wind out of him.”

“to catch wind of something”

“Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.”

“Police got wind of the lottery, tried to track it down.”

“the wind of change”

“But many of those issues failed to draw Spanish voters, or even scared them, and the country’s election results went contrary to Europe’s political winds.”

“to pass wind”

“Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.”

“the four winds”

“Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.”

“When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.”

“Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.”

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

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