Overview of noun wind

The noun wind has 8 senses

• wind, air current, current of air -- (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")


• wind -- (a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change")


• wind -- (breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him")


• wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness -- (empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz")


• tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint -- (an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job")


• wind instrument, wind -- (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath)


• fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind -- (a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus)


• wind, winding, twist -- (the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind")

Overview of verb wind

The verb wind has 7 senses

• weave, wind, thread, meander, wander -- (to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body")


• wind, twist, curve -- (extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest")


• wind, wrap, roll, twine -- (arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child")


• scent, nose, wind -- (catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs")


• wind, wind up -- (coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch")


• wreathe, wind -- (form into a wreath)


• hoist, lift, wind -- (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car")