winding
See also: Winding
English
Etymology 1
From wind + -ing, from wind (“to wrap”).
Pronunciation
Verb
winding
Noun
winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)
- Something wound around something else.
- The manner in which something is wound.
- One complete turn of something wound.
- 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,[1]
- […] my mother’s pale arms emerged from the windings of her sheets and flailed in the air […]
- 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,[1]
- (especially in the plural) Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
- 1610, John Healey, The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,[2]
- The Labyrinth] A building so entangled in windings and cyrcles, that it deceiueth all that come in it.
- 1706, William Congreve, The Double Dealer, London: Jacob Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,[3]
- […] in vain I do disguise me from thee, thou know’st me, know’st the very inmost Windings and Recesses of my Soul.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Penguin, 2018, Chapter 2, p. 88,[4]
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter ,[5]
- Eugene Forcarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim.
- 1985, Margaret Atwood, chapter 33, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 213:
- If you went down the river long enough, along its sinewy windings, you’d reach the sea […]
- 1610, John Healey, The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,[2]
- (electrical) A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
- (music, lutherie, bowmaking) Lapping.
Translations
something wound around something else
the manner in which something is wound
one complete turn of something wound
length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
lapping — see lapping
Adjective
winding (comparative more winding, superlative most winding)
Translations
twisting, turning or sinuous
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Etymology 2
From Middle English wyndynge, equivalent to wind + -ing, from wind (“movement of air”), as the wind was used to assist turning.
Pronunciation
Verb
winding
Noun
winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)
- The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).
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