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wind
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English winde, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?tos (“wind”), from earlier *h?wéh?n?ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h?weh?- (“to blow”). Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, West Frisian wyn, Norwegian and Swedish vind, Icelandic vindur, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt, Sanskrit ??? (v??ta), Russian ?????? (véter), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Cognate to vent.
Alternative forms
- winde (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?nd, IPA(key): /?w?nd/
- (archaic) enPR: w?nd, IPA(key): /?wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
wind (countable and uncountable, plural winds)
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements).
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- 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.
- (music) 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, which are often called the "four winds".
- Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
- 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.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
Synonyms
- (movement of air): breeze, draft, gale; see also Thesaurus:wind
- (flatus): gas (US); see also Thesaurus:flatus
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: win
- Torres Strait Creole: win
Translations
See wind/translations § Etymology 1.
See also
Verb
wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle winded or (proscribed) wound)
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- The boxer was winded during round two.
- (transitive, Britain) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive, Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- The hounds winded the game.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
Usage notes
- The form “wound” in the past is occasionally found in reference to blowing a horn, but is often considered to be erroneous. The October 1875 issue of The Galaxy disparaged this usage as a “very ridiculous mistake” arising from a misunderstanding of the word's meaning.
- A similar solecism occurs in the use (in this sense) of the pronunciation /wa?nd/, sometimes heard in singing and oral reading of verse, e.g., The huntsman /wa?ndz/ his horn.
Descendants
- ? Tok Pisin: winim
Translations
See wind/translations § Etymology 1.
Etymology 2
From Middle English winden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windan?. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?nd, IPA(key): /wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
- Homophones: wined, whined (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Verb
wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle wound or winded)
- (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (intransitive) To travel in a way that is not straight.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
- 1969, Paul McCartney, The Long and Winding Road
- The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.
- 12 October 1710, Joseph Addison, The Examiner No. 5
- Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- 1674, Richard Allestree, The Government of the Tongue
- 'Tis pleasant to see what little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
- 1674, Richard Allestree, The Government of the Tongue
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- 2012, "Rural Affairs", Anna Hutton-North, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]
- 2012, "Rural Affairs", Anna Hutton-North, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Esperanto: vindi
Translations
See wind/translations § Etymology 2.
Noun
wind (plural winds)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
References
- wind at OneLook Dictionary Search
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch wind, from Middle Dutch wint, from Old Dutch wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h?weh?- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?nt/
Noun
wind (plural winde, diminutive windjie)
- wind (movement of air)
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- wénn, winn, wend
Etymology
From Old High German wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz. Cognate with German Wind, Dutch wind, English wind, Icelandic vindur, Gothic ???????????????????? (winds).
Noun
wind m
- (Carcoforo) wind
References
- “wind” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt/
- Hyphenation: wind
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophone: wint
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch wint, from Old Dutch wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h?weh?- (“to blow”).
Noun
wind m (plural winden, diminutive windje n)
- wind (movement of air)
- flatulence, fart
- Synonyms: bout, buikwind, ruft, scheet
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: wind
- ? Sranan Tongo: winti
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch wint. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
wind m (plural winden, diminutive windje n)
- (obsolete) greyhound
Derived terms
- windhond
Related terms
- hond
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
wind
- first-person singular present indicative of winden
- imperative of winden
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wind.
Germanic cognates include Old Frisian wind, Old Saxon wind, Dutch wind, Old High German wint (German Wind), Old Norse vindr (Swedish vind), Gothic ???????????????????? (winds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin ventus (French vent), Welsh gwynt, Tocharian A want, Tocharian B yente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wind/
Noun
wind m
- wind
- flatulence
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: wind, wend
- English: wind
- Scots: wind, wynd
- Yola: wyeene
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leeward
English
Etymology
lee (“side away from the wind”) +? -ward (“direction”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?li?w?d/, (nautical) /?l(j)u??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?liw??d/, (nautical) /?lu???d/
Adjective
leeward (comparative more leeward, superlative most leeward or leewardmost)
- On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.
Synonyms
- downwind
Antonyms
- windward
Derived terms
- Leeward Islands
Related terms
- leeway
Translations
Adverb
leeward (comparative more leeward, superlative most leeward)
- Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 23:
- Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
- ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
- No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high ...
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 23:
Antonyms
- windward
Translations
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- leeward on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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