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wind English

Meaning wind meaning

What does wind mean?
Definitions in simple English

wind Verb

— If you wind something you wrap it around and make it tight. You need to wind the string around the stick. — If you wind a clock or watch you tighten a spring inside it. This is done by turning knob. The spring powers the clock or watch as it unwinds (stops being tight). — If something winds it twists around in different directions. The road winds for miles. — If something winds down, it runs out of power and gets slower. (Like a watch that is unwinding.) — How something winds up is how it becomes in the end or after something happens. I wound up lost after I made the wrong turn.

wind

— noun (= air current) 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 atmosphere — verb (= meander, wander) 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 — verb (= wrap, roll, twine) arrange or or coil around roll your hair around your finger Twine the thread around the spool She wrapped her arms around the child — verb (= twist, curve) extend in curves and turns The road winds around the lake the path twisted through the forest — noun a tendency or force that influences events the winds of change — noun breath the collision knocked the wind out of him — noun (= winding, twist) the act of winding or twisting he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind — noun (= jazz) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk that's a lot of wind don't give me any of that jazz — verb coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem wind your watch — verb (= wreathe) form into a wreath — noun (= wind instrument) a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath — verb (= hoist) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car — verb (= scent, nose) catch the scent of; get wind of The dog nosed out the drugs — noun (= fart) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus — noun (= tip, lead) an indication of potential opportunity he got a tip on the stock market a good lead for a job

Synonyms wind synonyms

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wind English » English

air breeze coil twist reel turn meander wrap wind up twine fart curve roll storm gale curl bend gust breath spin scent winding twirl spool roll up flatulence current of air wreathe wrap round wind instrument tornado spirit revolve nose lead freeze-dried flatus entwine blow whirl weave weather wander twist around tip steer spiral snake mindless ranting jive

Topics wind topics

What do people use wind to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Wind
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
Physical actions Move something

Turn something
Physical actions Move something Cover

Wrap
Physical actions Arrange

Tie
States Quality Shape

Bend
States Quality Shape Bend

Twist, wring
Universe, creation Sky Air

Blow air
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Cloud
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Person Body functions

Defecate, feces
Person Body condition

Tired
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Grammar General words Thing

Situation

Conjugation wind conjugation

How do you conjugate wind?

wind · verb

Examples wind examples

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Simple sentences

The wind is picking up.
There is some wind.
He who sows the wind, shall reap the storm.
The wind drove the sand.
The wind blew the dust from the balcony.
The willow branches are swaying in the autumn wind.
To produce electricity, more wind is needed.
I really like wind surfing.
Tom brought up wind.
Someday I'll run like the wind.
You know the phrase, we reap what we sow. I have sown the wind and this is my storm.
The wind calmed down.
The sky grew darker and darker, and the wind blew harder and harder.
The strong wind died away at night.
The strong wind indicates that a storm is coming.
The strong wind cut the electric wires in several places.
The wind blew in gusts.
A strong wind was blowing.
Flying against a strong wind is very difficult.
Passing through the strong wind, the planes rock like this, but don't worry.
Tall buildings may sway in a strong wind.
A strong wind is blowing and I can't walk fast.

Movie subtitles

Tight to the wind, way out on high, riding the horizon, living it up between Mrs Smith's thighs.
If the public get wind of this, it'll jeopardise my electoral chances.
That would've taken the wind out of Neil Bloom's sails.
We can go somewhere out of this wind.
It appears the wind would be the least of my problems at the moment.
My grandad died on it, and every time the wind blows the wrong way, I'm reminded.
The wind's quite chilly, Fetch a rug, would you.
Through her hundred veils the wind sings a song of marriage.
There he sat, resting his weary bones as the icy wind howled through the knothole.
The wind also was giving Big Jim his troubles.
Look, we should turn back. The Foehn wind is coming down.
Listen to the wind hitting against the trees.
The semaphore flag signals VARIABLE wind.
They never taught us anything really useful like how to light a cigarette in the wind or make a fire out of wet wood. or bayonet a man in the belly instead of the ribs where it gets jammed.
We're nomads, sons of the wind.
Nothing solid is built on wind.
And burpees and wind sprints and just about everything else in gym class.
Strange how the wind blows tonight.
Birds singing, brooks laughing, and the wind sort of crooning through the forest. Like some great organ.
You got nothing on your chest but wind!
You can't do it with irons. It's a mashie shot. It's a mashie shot if the wind is against you.
You'll wind up with something.
I've heard that north wind blow before.
Evil spirits come in on the wind.
Wind that.
A couple of drinks and a gust of wind.
If the tide is full and the wind is with us, we'll sail.
Wind direction: NE.
SE. Wind direction: NE.
You're as fickle as the wind!
It's time somebody licked that big bag of wind.
Save your wind, save your wind.
Tonight, the wind will sweep the sand away.
You can wind some thread around it so it will fit you when you get home.
The wind outside woke him and now he won't go to sleep.
Just a little wind in the pipes.
I've heard many a wind in many a pipe, but never a sound like that.

News and current affairs

The Sudairis, it seems, have apparently left their half brother alone to twist in the wind. Abdullah's proposal could weaken his position domestically, particularly in relation to the country's powerful Islamists.
Accounting for a reduction of 50 Mt of CO2 per year, America's 30,000 wind turbines reduce emissions by just one-tenth the amount that natural gas does.
On the contrary, before the Civil War you could start out splitting rails, light out for the Western Territory, make a success of yourself on the frontier, and wind up as President - if you were named Abraham Lincoln.
It is easier to use than wind or solar power because it can produce electricity around the clock, without reliance on weather conditions.
At the same time, the country must modify its consumption model through greater reliance on hydroelectric, nuclear, and wind energy.
Instead of powering the world economy with fossil fuels, we need to mobilize much greater use of low-carbon alternatives such as wind, solar, and geothermal power.
Either technology will depend on a national electricity grid that uses low-emission forms of power generation, such as wind, solar, nuclear, or coal-fired plants that capture and store the carbon-dioxide emissions.
There is also the challenge inherent in wind-generated electricity: ensuring that the city can continue to run when the wind is not blowing.
The city's plan is to build more than 100 wind turbines within the greater Copenhagen area and in the shallow waters around it.
After all, the whole accounting exercise works only if others are still using fossil fuels that Copenhagen's unpredictable wind power can replace.
Consider Copenhagen's wind-turbine plan, the single largest expected source of savings.
Even if fossil-fuel-powered electricity prices remain constant, Copenhagen's wind turbines become a net drain.
In fact, putting up a wind turbine cuts no extra CO2, because total emissions are already capped under the EU-wide carbon-trading scheme.
The immediate political response to the Japanese disaster will be to make small re-adjustments among known energy sources, including wind and solar.
Renewable energies like solar and wind are already competitive with fossil fuels in many parts of the world, and they can be scaled up rapidly.
Low-carbon electricity can be produced by solar, nuclear, and wind energy, or by coal-burning power plants that capture and store their CO2 emissions.
This does not yet add up to a thaw in the bilateral relationship, but it does suggest that Xi may be seeking a respite, at least until China's economy is on a more stable footing and his anti-corruption campaign begins to wind down.
India ranks fifth in the world in total production of wind power and third in terms of wind power added in 2008.
Suzlon Energy, an Indian company started in 1995 with just 20 people, has become one of the world's leading wind power companies, with offices in 21 countries.
Green energy, especially wind, can indeed help African countries, for example, get some electricity to remote, rural areas; but the grid will do the most good for the most people.
Environmental hazards blow in on the wind.
Intensity measures a hurricane's force, which includes wind speeds, and there has been some recorded increase. The biggest change, however, has been in the duration of hurricanes: how many days each hurricane lasts.
One option is a shift to non-carbon energy sources, such as renewable energy (solar and wind power) and nuclear energy.
Her stall is far from ideal; with every gust of wind, sand and dirt blow over the meat.
The effects of high oil prices thus flow through to the economy without being moderated by the world's central banks leaning against the wind.
Unfortunately, clean, renewable energy sources that do not emit carbon dioxide, such as wind power and geothermal power, are not yet sufficient.
So: fossil fuels are plentiful, but harmful; renewable sources like wind are good for the climate but not plentiful.
Thirdly, between 2000 and 2008, China increased its wind power generating capacity from 340 MW to 10 GW, hydropower from 79.35 GW to 163 GW, and nuclear power from 2.1 GW to 9.1 GW.
Dissidents picked up by the police but not formally arrested sometimes wind up in re-education camps or in psychiatric hospitals run by the public security bureau.
Industrialized nations have developed and made great use of nuclear, solar, wind, and bio-gas, and other renewable energy resources.

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