Windname

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  A surname

windnoun詞源 1/ˈwɪnd/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

  • the wind of a cannon ball
  • the wind of a bellows
• 3

  The ability to breathe easily.

  • After the second lap he was already out of wind.
  • The fall knocked the wind out of him.
• 4

  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.
• 5

  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

  alchemyhuman-sciencesphilosophyOne of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.

• 7

  One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.

• 8

  Flatus.

  • to pass wind

windverb詞源 1/ˈwɪnd/

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  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
• 2

  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

  To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.

• 4

  To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.

• 5

  To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

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  To perceive or follow by scent.

  • The hounds winded the game.
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  To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.

• 8

  To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.

windverb詞源 2/waɪnd/

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  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.
• 2

  To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.

  • Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.
• 3

  To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

  • Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
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  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.
• 5

  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: […]
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  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
• 7

  To cover or surround with something coiled about.

  • to wind a rope with twine
• 8

  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.

windnoun詞源 2/waɪnd/

• 1

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

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