wind

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Real or perceived 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.”

   “As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.”

   “The winds in Chicago are fierce.”

   “There was a sudden gust of wind, on which spores were borne away.”

   “The window was banging in the wind.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

   “the wind of a cannon ball”

   “the wind of a bellows”

3. (countable, uncountable)The ability to breathe easily.

   “After the second lap he was already out of wind.”

   “The fall knocked the wind out of him.”

4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.

   “to catch wind of something”

   “Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.”

   “Police got wind of the lottery, tried to track it down.”

5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A tendency or trend.

   “the wind of change”

   “But many of those issues failed to draw Spanish voters, or even scared them, and the country’s election results went contrary to Europe’s political winds.”

6. (countable, uncountable)One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
7. (countable, uncountable)One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
8. (colloquial, uncountable)Flatus.

   “to pass wind”

9. (countable, uncountable)Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

   “Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.”

10. (countable, uncountable)The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
11. (countable, uncountable)A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
12. (countable, uncountable)A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.

    “the four winds”

    “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.”

    “At daylight I found we were; in a beautiful little harbour, formed by a coral reef about two hundred yards from shore, and perfectly secure in every wind.”

    “When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.”

13. (countable, uncountable)Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
14. (countable, uncountable)A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
15. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

    “Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.”

    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

16. (countable, uncountable)A bird, the dotterel.
17. (countable, slang, uncountable)The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
18. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)

    “Invest in wind for example through the municipality's energy company”

    “In China, onshore wind is cheaper than gas-fired power, at $77 per MWh versus $113, but it is much more expensive still than coal-generated electricity, at $44, while solar PV power is at $109.”

    “And a rapid move to solar and wind is being achieved by taking the fossil fuel companies out of the energy equation”

19. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

verb

1. (transitive)To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

   “Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; / To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! / His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, / And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.”

   “Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth”

   “"If your Majesty is ever to use the Horn," said Trufflehunter, "I think the time has now come." Caspian had of course told them of this treasure several days ago./[…]/"Then in the name of Aslan we will wind Queen Susan's Horn," said Caspian.”

2. (transitive)To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.

   “The boxer was winded during round two.”

3. (British, transitive)To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
4. (British, transitive)To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
5. (transitive)To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
6. (transitive)To perceive or follow by scent.

   “The hounds winded the game.”

7. (transitive)To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
8. (transitive)To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
9. (transitive)To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.

   “to wind thread on a spool or into a ball”

   “Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.”

   “It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.”

   “After letting the singles rest overnight, I wound one of the bobbins into a center-pull ball.”

10. (transitive)To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.

    “Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.”

11. (transitive)To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

    “Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.”

12. (intransitive)To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.

    “Vines wind round a pole.  The river winds through the plain.”

    “He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which[…]winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.”

    “The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.”

    “Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.”

    “The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.”

13. (transitive)To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.

    “to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus”

    “Gifts blind the vviſe, and bribes do pleaſe, / And vvinde all other witneſſes: […]”

    “Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.”

14. (transitive)To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

    “You have contrived[…]to wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.”

    “'Tis pleasant to see what little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse”

15. (transitive)To cover or surround with something coiled about.

    “to wind a rope with twine”

16. (transitive)To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.

    “Quickly she slammed the door shut and panicking wound the window up as fast as her slippery fingers would allow.”

17. (transitive)To turn (a ship) around, end for end.

name

1. A surname