wind
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Old English wind. Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, Swedish vind, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt; ultimately probably cognate with weather.
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wind (countable and uncountable; plural winds)
- (countable, uncountable) Movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.
- The winds in Chicago are fierce.
- (countable) The force developed by the movement of air, expressed as pressure.
- As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.
- (uncountable) The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.
- After the second lap he has already out of wind.
- (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
- Give me a minute before we jog the next mile — I need a second wind.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- Ewww. Someone passed wind.
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to wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle winded)
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
- The boxer was winded during round two.
- (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
- I can’t run another step — I’m winded.
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Rhymes: -aɪnd
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- whined (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
- wined
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to wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle wound)
- (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- Please wind up that kite string.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- Please wind up that old-fashioned alarm clock.
- (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight
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- The river winds through the plain.
- 1969: Paul McCartney
- The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
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[edit] Dutch
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Old Saxon wind.
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wind m. (plural winden, diminutive windje)
- wind (movement of air)
- De wind waait door de bomen. — The wind blows through the trees.
- flatulence
- fart (not informal)
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From Germanic *winda-, *wenda-, from a suffixed form *we-nt- of Indo-European *we- ‘blow, gust’. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian wind, Old Saxon wind (Dutch wind), Old High German wint (German Wind), Old Norse vindr (Swedish vind), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃. The IE root is also the source of Latin ventus (French vent), Welsh gwynt, Tocharian A want, Tocharian B yente.
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- IPA: /wɪnd/
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wind m.

