DICTOMETER

WIND

(wind, serpentear, viento, bukte, luft, pust, slynge, vind)

1. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   • Air current
   • Current of air
   Definitions:
   • air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
   Examples:
   • Trees bent under the fierce winds
   • When there is no wind, row
   • The radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   Definitions:
   • a tendency or force that influences events
   Examples:
   • The winds of change
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   Definitions:
   • breath
   Examples:
   • The collision knocked the wind out of him
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   • Malarkey
   • Malarky
   • Idle words
   • Jazz
   • Nothingness
   Definitions:
   • empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
   Examples:
   • That's a lot of wind
   • Don't give me any of that jazz
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Tip
   • Lead
   • Steer
   • Confidential information
   • Wind
   • Hint
   Definitions:
   • an indication of potential opportunity
   Examples:
   • He got a tip on the stock market
   • A good lead for a job
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Wind instrument
   • Wind
   Definitions:
   • a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Fart
   • Farting
   • Flatus
   • Wind
   • Breaking wind
   Definitions:
   • a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   • Winding
   • Twist
   Definitions:
   • the act of winding or twisting
   Examples:
   • He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Weave
   • Wind
   • Thread
   • Meander
   • Wander
   Definitions:
   • to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
   Examples:
   • The river winds through the hills
   • The path meanders through the vineyards
   • Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
   Antonyms:
   unwind, wind off, unroll
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   • Twist
   • Curve
   Definitions:
   • extend in curves and turns
   Examples:
   • The road winds around the lake
   • The path twisted through the forest
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   • Wrap
   • Roll
   • Twine
   Definitions:
   • arrange or or coil around
   Examples:
   • Roll your hair around your finger
   • Twine the thread around the spool
   • She wrapped her arms around the child
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Scent
   • Nose
   • Wind
   Definitions:
   • catch the scent of
   • get wind of
   Examples:
   • The dog nosed out the drugs
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Wind
   • Wind up
   Definitions:
   • coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
   Examples:
   • Wind your watch
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Wreathe
   • Wind
   Definitions:
   • form into a wreath
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Hoist
   • Lift
   • Wind
   Definitions:
   • raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
   Examples:
   • Hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car