Word Finder - winds

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Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.

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As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.

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Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

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the wind of a cannon ball;  the wind of a bellows

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The ability to breathe easily.

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After the second lap he was already out of wind.

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News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)

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Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.

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One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements).

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Flatus.

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Eww. Someone just passed wind.

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Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

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The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.

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A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".

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Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.

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A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

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Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

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A bird, the dotterel.

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The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.

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The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

The ship was driven about by the winds; it was wrecked.

Many of the passengers were ill and others whimpered and whined as the plane dropped, rose and rolled in the churning gusts, riding the heavy winds like a cork in a whirlpool.

Flame collectors blow out in high winds, whilst water-droppers are apt to get frozen in winter.

She dared not stand on her own with the winds strong enough to knock her over.

The rafters creaked and strained, and the branches of the trees surrounding the house rattled and beat against the windows, as the winds rioted up and down the country.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!

At length the sun's rays have attained the right angle, and warm winds blow up mist and rain and melt the snowbanks, and the sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which the traveller picks his way from islet to islet, cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off.

But though I do not know what causes the cold winds to blow when the oak buds unfold, I cannot agree with the peasants that the unfolding of the oak buds is the cause of the cold wind, for the force of the wind is beyond the influence of the buds.

Real bikers weren't bothered by a little rain, he tried to tell himself, but the car radio spoke of a storm system moving up from the south, bringing with it high winds and torren­tial rain.

In the summer and autumn the winds are light.

Round the house was a wide piazza, where the mountain winds blew, sweet with all wood-scents.

The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding.

Tacking and jibbing, we wrestled with opposing winds that drove us from side to side with impetuous fury.

The warm winds blow The waters flow And robin dear, Is come to show That Spring is here.

The port of Algiers is sheltered from all winds.

In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.

In the Bay of Bengal the strength of the southwest monsoon is rather from the south and south-east, being succeeded by north-east winds after October, which give place to northerly and north-westerly winds as the year advances.

Among the islands of the Malay Archipelago the force of the monsoons is much interrupted, and the position of this region on the equator otherwise modifies the directions of the prevailing winds.

The southerly summer winds of the Asiatic seas between the equator and the tropic do not extend to the coasts of Java, and the southeasterly trade winds are there developed in the usual manner.

The winds which pass northward over India blow as south-easterly and easterly winds over the north-eastern part of the Gangetic plain, and as south winds up the Indus.

The heaviest falls of rain occur along lines of mountain of some extent directly facing the vapour-bearing winds, as on the Western Ghats of India and the west coast of the Malay peninsula.

The very small and irregular rainfall in Sind and along the Indus is to be accounted for by the want of any obstacle in the path of the vapour-bearing winds, which, therefore, carry the uncondensed rain up to the Punjab, where it falls on the outer ranges of the western Himalaya and of Afghanistan.

The diurnal mountain winds are very strongly marked on the Himalaya, where they probably are the most active agents in determining the precipitation of rain along the chain - the monsoon currents, as before stated, not penetrating among the mountains.

Cagliari is considerably exposed to winds in winter, while in summer it is almost African in climate.

The roadstead is very shallow, and exposed to winds which cause great variations in the height of the water; it is, moreover, rapidly silting up. At the quay the depth of water is only 8 to 9 feet, and large ships have to lie 5 to 13 miles from the town.

Winnowing was done by women, who tossed the grain into the air with small wooden boards, the chaff being blown away by the winds.

The cold winds which prevail in January and February frequently injured the crops in the more exposed and higher districts.

It was introduced into Britain soon after its rediscovery by David Douglas in 1827, and has been widely planted, but does not flourish well where exposed to high winds or in too shallow soil.

It was hailed with satisfaction by the Unionists, but the pure economists complained that he had thrown sobriety and thrift to the winds.

The prevailing winds in most parts are westerly, but sudden changes, as well as the extremes of temperature, are caused mainly by the frequent shifting of the wind from N.W.

At Cleveland and Cincinnati the winds blow mostly from the S.E.

Thus, the Eskimo are said to believe in spirits of the sea, earth and sky, the winds, the clouds and everything in nature.

Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

This is effected by the so-called habit of "ballooning" practised by very young spiders, which float through the air, often at great altitudes, in the direction of the prevalent winds.

Wind is another important factor, as cotton does not do well in localities subject to very high winds; and in exposed situations, otherwise favourable, wind belts have at times to be provided.

The armies of Fulcher and Gottschalk were destroyed by the Hungarians in just revenge for their excesses (June); the third, after joining in a wild Judenhetze in the towns of the valley of the Rhine, during which some io,000 Jews perished as the first-fruits of crusading zeal, was scattered to the winds in Hungary (August).

The heat at Damascus and Aleppo is great, the cooling winds being kept off by the mountains.

Surface currents are set up by prevailing winds, which also seriously affect water levels, lowering the water at Chicago and raising it at the strait, or the reverse, so as greatly to inconvenience navigation.

The summer heat is moderated by the sea-breeze or by cool northerly winds from the mountains (especially in July and August).

The district thus occupied sloped towards the sun and was sheltered by the Acropolis from the prevailing northerly winds.

Among the earlier buildings of this period is the Horologium The Horo- of Andronicus of Cyrrhus (the " Tower of the Winds"), logium of still standing near the eastern end of the Roman Agora.

The temperature is moderated by the north-east trade winds, which, somewhat modified by local conditions, blow throughout the year, briskly during the day and more mildly during the night.

These hills afford shelter from inclement winds, and give Warrenpoint and other neighbouring watering-places on the lough a climate which renders them as popular in winter as in summer.

Other features frequently met with are the Paradise in the Far East, miniatures of towns, plants, animals, human beings and monsters, and an indication of the twelve winds around the margin.

Edmund Halley, the astronomer, compiled the first variation chart of scientific value (1683), as also a chart of the winds (1686).

Aello and Ocypete, daughters of Thaumas and Electra, winged goddesses with beautiful locks, swifter than winds and birds in their flight, and their domain is the air.

The water is deep right to the base of the cliff and owing to the winds and the strength of the ocean currents, navigation is dangerous.

In winter the snowfall is very light, and even this is frequently removed by warm winds from the west.

Through the mountain passes come at times dry winds from the Pacific coast, which lick up the snow in a few hours.

These winds are known as Chinook winds.