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wing
Noun
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A wing is the long flat part of a bird, insect or other flying thing. It is used to fly.
This bird can fly very high very quickly because the bird uses strong wings with many feathers.
He looked out the window of the plane and saw the sun shining on the wing.
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A wing is part of a building, usually not the main part.
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A wing is part of a political group.
wing
Verb
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To fly with wings.
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If you wing it you do not have a plan—you are making up what you do while you do it.
pattern
Noun
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A pattern is a design that uses the same set of elements many times in the same order.
The table cloth had a simple pattern of red and white squares.
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The combined and for an individual or a group of people describes a pattern.
The people of Spain have a pattern of resting in the afternoon and eating dinner late at night.
pattern
Verb
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When you pattern something, you make it using a pattern.
Much of crime fiction is patterned from true police .