ENGLISH: wind - CREOLE: van



Overview of noun wind



The noun wind has 8 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)



1. (29) wind, air current, current of air -- (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")

2. (1) wind -- (a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change")

3. (1) wind -- (breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him")

4. wind, idle words, jazz, nothingness -- (empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz")

5. tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint -- (an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job")

6. wind instrument, wind -- (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath)

7. fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind -- (a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus)

8. wind, winding, twist -- (the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind")



Overview of verb wind



The verb wind has 7 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)



1. (3) weave, wind, thread, 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")

2. (2) wind, twist, curve -- (extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest")

3. (2) wind, wrap, roll, twine -- (wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool")

4. scent, nose, wind -- (catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs")

5. wind, wind up -- (coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch")

6. wreathe, wind -- (form into a wreath)

7. hoist, lift, wind -- (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car")

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