wind
noun
- moving air, particularly outdoors
verb
- rotate, often so as to increase tension
verb
- to cause to become breathless
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /waɪnd/
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from wind (both senses). This surname also appears in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German with the same senses, such as Wint. Compare De Wind. * Also as a German surname, variant of Wendt.
- A surname
noun
Etymology: From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
- 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.”
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
“Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.”
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
“Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.”
- 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.”
- 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: […]”
- 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”
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
“to wind a rope with twine”
- 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.”
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.