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English

Etymology

From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr (“wing”), from Proto-Germanic *w?inga, *w?ingan-. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”), West Frisian wjuk (“wing”), from *h?weh?- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþrij?), which merged with fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþr?). More at feather.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ng, IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

wing (plural wings)

1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly

2. A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
3. (slang) Human arm.
4. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.

5. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
6. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
7. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
8. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
9. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
10. Passage by flying; flight.
11. Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
12. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

13. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
14. A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
15. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
16. A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
17. A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
18. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
    1. (Britain) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
    2. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
19. (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
20. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
21. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

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22. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.

23. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
24. (typography, informal, rare) A há?ek.
    • 1985, David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary, page 378:

      ? wing, wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek)

26. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
27. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
    • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

      Anyone and everyone with wings - press officers, operations specialists, even General Curtis LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe - was put on flight duty and took turns flying double shifts for "Operation Vittles."

28. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
29. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype

Alternative forms

• weng, whing, wyng (all obsolete)

Synonyms

• (panel of a car): fender (US), guard (Australia)
• (sports position): forward
• (U.S. Air Force): delta (U.S. Space Force), garrison (U.S. Space Force)

Hyponyms

• left wing
• right wing

Derived terms

Related terms

• on the wing
• take under one's wing
• wing it
• wait in the wings

Translations

Verb

wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (nonstandard) wung)

1. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
2. (intransitive) To fly.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

3. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
4. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

5. (transitive) To throw.
6. (transitive) To furnish with wings.
7. (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
8. (transitive) To traverse by flying.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gwin, gwin

Middle English

Noun

wing

1. Alternative form of winge

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wing.

Noun

wing

1. wing

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Adjective

wing

1. little (by amount)

English

Alternative forms

• coälition (rare)

Etymology

From French coalition (“coalition”), from Late Latin alo (“I advance (cause, etc., communion)”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: k??l?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /ko???l???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

coalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions)

1. A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

   The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

2. (rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
   • 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard

     Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.

   • 2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, "Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her", The Daily Mail

     Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.

   • 2015 June 11, "This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show", Bristol Post

     This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• coalition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coitional

French

Alternative forms

• coälition (rare)

Etymology

From Late Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.a.li.sj??/

Noun

coalition f (plural coalitions)

1. coalition

Further reading

• “coalition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).