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, The Handmaid’s Tale, Emblem, 2017, Chapter 33,[6]
- 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
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lapping — see lapping
Adjective
winding (comparative more winding, superlative most winding)
Translations
twisting, turning or sinuous
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Etymology 2
From 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).