Wind (Noun)
Meaning 1
Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "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".
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Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
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- Gentle Wind
- Northerly
- Southerly
- Wester
- Boreas
- Chinook Wind
- Easter
- Blast
- Calm
- Sou'easter
- Samiel
- Zephyr
- Foehn
- Sou'wester
- Blow
- Norther
- Souther
- Easterly
- Draught
- Air
- Snow Eater
- Simoon
- Northwester
- Catabatic Wind
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Meaning 2
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.
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Meaning 3
An indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 4
The act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind".
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Meaning 5
A tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change".
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Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
Meaning 6
Breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him".
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Meaning 7
A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 8
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.