Word Finder - winding

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To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

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To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.

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The boxer was winded during round two.

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

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

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

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To perceive or follow by scent.

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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.

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

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To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.

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to wind thread on a spool or into a ball

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To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.

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Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.

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To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

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To travel in a way that is not straight.

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Vines wind round a pole.  The river winds through the plain.

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To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

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To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

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To cover or surround with something coiled about.

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to wind a rope with twine

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To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.

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To turn (a ship) around, end for end.

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Something wound around something else.

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The manner in which something is wound.

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One complete turn of something wound.

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(especially in the plural) Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.

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A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.

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(bowmaking) Lapping.

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Twisting, turning or sinuous.

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Spiral or helical.

We are gaining speed, not winding down.

They continued up a winding path toward the top of the lowest of the mountains.

She stared at him, her insides winding into a tight ball.

It moved silently and quickly down the winding road through the forest.

Rhyn stayed in his form until they reached a narrow, winding set of stairs.

Leo Africanus rightly describes its lower course as "severing by its winding channel the barren and naked soil from the green and fruitful."

Its narrow, winding streets contain many houses of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Except she was suddenly hungry again, the faint, sweet scent winding through her senses.

The soldier led them up a set of stairs winding around smaller buildings and into a building apart from the rest.

She scratched at the tattoo winding around her neck, furious with him.

He recognized the healer by the amount of bands winding around his arm.

She said nothing more, and they strode up the winding road to the medical facilities.

They emerged from the shadow world and stood on a narrow, winding road.

From the fleches they rode still farther to the left, along a road winding through a thick, low-growing birch wood.

The gunfight gave another burst of life before winding down.

Even the stone pathway winding through the stone obelisks was either buried in dirt or missing.

As they reached the clearing, Justin stooped and retrieved the twine, winding it into a ball as they continued back toward the house.

The town is one of the oldest in Norway, founded in the 8th or 9th century, but the present town is modern, though narrow, winding streets and wooden houses give it an antique appearance.

After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

The coils of the electromagnets are differentially wound with silk-covered wire, 4 mils (= 004 inch) in diameter, to a total resistance of 400 ohms. This differential winding enables the instrument to be used for " duplex " working, but the connexions of the wires to the terminal screws are such that the relay can be used for ordinary single working.

Yully reached the turnoff for the cottage and sped as fast as she could through a winding road.

He managed to get a slow-moving truck between them on a winding road and nearly lost them until the road widened near Scranton.

They would all get together and wash her old car, winding up in a gleeful water fight.

After the junction of the two branches the river pursues a winding course, generally south-east, for about Boo m.

The piping takes a winding or zigzag course, and by the time the outlet is reached, the water it contains has reached a high temperature.

Below this the watershed of the Apennines is too near to the sea on that side to allow the formation of any large streams. Hence the rivers that flow in the opposite direction into the Adriatic and the Gulf of Taranto have much longer courses, though all partake of the character of mountain torrents, rushing down with great violence in winter and after storms, but dwindling in the summer into scanty streams, which hold a winding and sluggish course through the great plains of Apulia.

Opening out of this and the other chambers, and connecting them together, are a series of low winding passages or cuniculi, just large enough for a man to creep through on all fours.

The engines used for winding or hoisting in collieries are usually direct-acting with a pair of horizontal cylinders coupled directly to the drum shaft.

The work of the winding engine, being essentially of an intermittent character, can only be done with condensation when a central condenser keeping a constant vacuum is used, and even with this the rush of steam during winding may be a cause of disturbance.

Counterbalance chains for the winding engines are used in the collieries of the Midland districts of England.

A novelty in winding arrangements is the substitution of the electromotor for the steam engine, which has been effected in a few instances.

In one of the best-known examples, the Zollern colliery in Westphalia, the Koepe system is used, the winding disk being driven by two motors of 1200 H.P. each on the same shaft.

Motion is obtained from a continuous-current generator driven by an alternating motor with a very heavy fly-wheel, a combination known as the Ilgner transformer, which runs continuously with a constant draught on the generating station, the extremely variable demand of the winding engine during the acceleration period being met by the energy stored in the fly-wheel, which runs at a very high speed.

Nevertheless about 60 electric winding engines were at work or under construction in May 1906.

The surface arrangements of a modern deep colliery are of considerable extent and complexity, the central feature being the head gear or pit frame carrying the guide pulleys Surface which lead the winding roes from the axis of the it arrange= g P P to the drum.

Maximum speed controllers in connexion with the winding indicator, which do not allow the engine to exceed a fixed rate of speed, are also used in some cases, with recording indicators.

The Housatonic, in portions placid, in others wild and rapid, winding along the deflecting barrier of the Hoosac Hills, is the most beautiful river of the state, despite the mercantile use of its water-power.

The northern Algonquin and Iroquoian tribes practised similar arts, and in the Atlantic states wove robes of animal and bird skins by cutting the latter into long strips, winding these strips on twine of hemp, and weaving them by the same processes employed in their basketry.

The walls survive, indeed, only in isolated fragments, but the narrow winding streets of the older part of the town, and the market-place surrounded by houses with high-pitched gables and roofs are very picturesque.

He utilized his father's engineers in the construction of a path or gallery winding up round the Sigiri rock.

Sebenico is built on a hill overlooking the river Kerka, which here forms a broad basin, connected by a winding channel with the Adriatic Sea, 3 m.

In the last-named region some fifteen salt-water gulfs penetrate into the very heart of the mountains, winding amid steep, cloudcapped ranges, and tall, richly-clothed cliffs overhanging their calm waters.

The Red river flows in a winding channel along the eastern boundary and empties into Lake Winnipeg in Canada, thence reaching Hudson Bay through the Nelson river.

The slope of the department is from north-east to south-west, though its longest river, the Meuse, entering it in the south-east, pursues a winding course of III m.

The old town forms a nucleus of narrow, winding streets surrounded by boulevards, beyond which lie modern quarters with regular thoroughfares and public gardens.

The river, which is unnavigable and winding at this point, forms the western boundary of the city for more than 4 m., and is spanned by three public bridges and a number of railway bridges.

It is romantically situated in the deep and winding valley of the Mosel, at the foot of a hill surrounded by a feudal castle dating from 1051, which has been restored in its former style.

The main part of the town is about a mile from the sea, with which it is connected by a winding street, ending at a quay surrounded by the fishing village of West Bay, where the railway terminates.

Access is gained to the harbour through a winding and dangerous passage over 2 m.

But all routes are difficult, winding between granite and limestone rocks, and abounding in narrow defiles and rugged torrent beds.