Word Finder - wings

definition

An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish

definition

Human arm.

definition

Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.

definition

One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

definition

One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

definition

Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

definition

Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

definition

A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

definition

Passage by flying; flight.

example

to take wing

definition

Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

definition

A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

example

the west wing of the hospital

definition

Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

definition

A protruding piece of material on a tampon to hold it in place and prevent leakage.

definition

An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

definition

A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.

definition

A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

definition

An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:

definition

A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

definition

A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

definition

That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

definition

A position in several field games on either side of the field.

definition

A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

definition

A háček.

definition

One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.

definition

(in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.

definition

A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.

definition

On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype

example

Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing.

definition

To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

definition

To fly.

definition

(of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.

definition

To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

definition

To throw.

definition

To furnish with wings.

definition

To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.

definition

To traverse by flying.

definition

A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing

definition

A flip (hairstyle)

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

A blur of wings and darkness caught his attention.

So, if we had the wings, and could escape the Gargoyles, we might fly to that rock and be saved.

If the Gargoyles can unhook the wings then the power to fly lies in the wings themselves, and not in the wooden bodies of the people who wear them.

Then, with the Wizard's help, he tried to fasten some of the wings to the old cab-horse.

Wings usually present.

The legs, wings and other organs of the trunk receive their nerves from the thoracic and abdominal ganglia, and the fusion of several pairs of these ganglia may be regarded as corresponding to a centralization of individuality.

Bell Pettigrew first satisfactorily analysed those movements, and reproduced them by the aid of artificial wings.

A vertical movement having been communicated by means of india-rubber in a state of torsion to the roots of the wings, the wings themselves, in virtue of their elasticity, and because of the resistance experienced from the air, twisted and untwisted and formed reciprocating screws, precisely analogous to those originally described and figured by Pettigrew in 1867.

As they had no wings the strangers could not fly away, and if they jumped down from such a height they would surely be killed.

However, the Wizard went once more to his satchel--which seemed to contain a surprising variety of odds and ends--and brought out a spool of strong wire, by means of which they managed to fasten four of the wings to Jim's harness, two near his head and two near his tail.

Seeds are carried with more facility when provided with plumes or wings.

The cock has a fine yellow bill and a head bearing a rounded crest of filamentous feathers; lanceolate scapulars overhang the wings, and from the rump spring the long flowing plumes which are so characteristic of the species, and were so highly prized by the natives before the Spanish conquest that no one was allowed to kill the bird when taken, but only to divest it of its feathers, which were to be worn by the chiefs alone.

The insects of this order have mandibles adapted for biting, and two pairs of membranous wings are usually present; the first abdominal segment (propodeum) becomes closely associated with the fore-body (thorax), of which it appears to form a part.

The wings of insects are, in all cases, developed after hatching, the younger stages being wingless, and often unlike the parent in other respects.

In such cases the development of wings and the attainment of the adult form depend upon a more or less profound transformation or metamorphosis.

Though the T hx, thoracic segments bear the wings, no trace of these appendages exists till the close of the embryonic life, 8 `' nor even, in many cases, till much later.

The nymph of a thrips-insect (Thysanoptera) is sluggish, its legs and wings being sheathed by a delicate membrane, while the nymph of the male scaleinsect rests enclosed beneath a waxy covering.

In the metabolic Hexapoda the resting pupal instar shows externally the wings and other characteristic imaginal organs which have been gradually elaborated beneath the larval cuticle.

But in none of these latter cases have the wings to be changed from a position inside the body to become external and actively functional organs.

The difference between the nymph or false pupa and the true pupa is that in the latter a whole stage is devoted to the perfecting of the wings and body-wall after the wings have become external organs; the stage is one in which no food is or can be taken, however prolonged may be its existence.

But even at present we can correctly state that the true pupa is invariably connected with the transference of the wings from the interior to the exterior of the body.

It cannot but suggest itself that this transference was induced by some peculiarity as to formation of cuticle, causing the growth of the wings to be directed inwards instead of outwards.

We may remark that fleas possess no wings, but are understood to possess a true pupa.

His classification was founded mainly on the nature of the wings, and five of his orders - the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, &c.), Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (two-winged flies), Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and Hemiptera (bugs, cicads, &c.) - are recognized to-day with nearly the same limits as he laid down.

The characters of the wings are doubtless important as indications of relationship, but the nature of the jaws and the course of the life-history must be considered of greater value.

Hexapoda mostly with wings, the wingless forms clearly degraded.

When wings are present, the fore-wings are small firm elytra, beneath which the delicate hind-wings are complexly folded.

Both pairs of wings similar, narrow and fringed.

Hexapoda mostly with wings; the wingless forms clearly degraded or modified.

Wings with predominantly longitudinal neuration, covered with flattened scales.

The Devonian rocks of Canada (New Brunswick) have yielded several fossils which are undoubtedly wings of Hexapods.

Of special interest are cockroachlike forms, with two pairs of similar membranous wings and a long ovipositor, and gigantic insects allied to the Odonata, that measured 2 ft.

The post-embryonic growth of Hexapods with or without metamorphosis is accompanied in most cases by the acquisition of wings.

On the other hand, it has been argued that the presence of wings in a vast majority of the Hexapoda suggests their presence in the ancestors of the whole class.

It is most unlikely that wings have been acquired independently by various orders of Hexapoda, and if we regard the Thysanura as the slightly modified representatives of a primitively wingless stock, we must postulate the acquisition of wings by some early offshoot of that stock, an offshoot whence the whole group of the Pterygota took its rise.

How wings were acquired by these primitive Pterygota must remain for the present a subject for speculation.

Insect wings are specialized outgrowths of certain thoracic segments, and are quite unrepresented in any other class of Arthropods.

They are not, therefore, like the wings of birds, modified from some pre-existing structures (the fore-limbs) common to their phylum; they are new and peculiar structures.

The origin of insect wings remains, therefore, a mystery, deepened by the difficulty of imagining any probable use for thoracic outgrowths, comparable to the wingrudiments of the Exopterygota, in the early stages of their evolution.

It is now, in fact, generally admitted that metamorphosis has been acquired comparatively recently, and Scudder in his review of the earliest fossil insects states that " their metamorphoses were simple and incomplete, the young leaving the egg with the form of the parent, but without wings, the assumption of which required no quiescent stage before maturity."

It has been previously remarked that the phenomena of holometabolism are connected with the development of wings inside the body (except in the case of the fleas, where there are no wings in the perfect insect).

The first hypothesis is not negatived by direct evidence, for we do not actually know the ontogeny of any of the Palaeozoic insects; it is, however, rendered highly improbable by the modern views as to the nature and origin of wings in insects, and by the fact that the Endopterygota include none of the lower existing forms of insects.

It is almost impossible to believe that any species of insect that has for a long period developed the wings outside the body could change this mode of growth suddenly for an internal mode of development of the organs in question, for, as we have already explained, the two modes of growth are directly opposed.

Now there are many forms of Exopterygota in which the creatures are almost or quite destitute of wings.

The wingless forms in question are always allied to winged forms, and there is every reason to believe that they have been really derived from winged forms. There are also insects (fleas, &c.) in which metamorphosis of a " complete " character exists, though the insects never develop wings.

Although we cannot yet define the conditions under which exopterygotous wings are suppressed or unusually developed, yet we know that such fluctuations occur.

There are, in fact, existing forms of Exopterygota that are usually wingless, and that nevertheless appear in certain seasons or localities with wings.

We are therefore entitled to assume that the suppressed wings of Exopterygota tend to reappear; and, speaking of the past, we may say that if after a period of suppression the wings began to reappear as hypodermal buds while a more rigid pressure was exerted by the cuticle, the growth of the buds would necessarily be inwards, and we should have incipient endopterygotism.

If it should be objected that the wings so developed would be rudimentary, and that there would be nothing to encourage their development into perfect functional organs, we may remind the reader that we have already pointed out that imperfect wings of Exopterygota do, even at the present time under certain conditions, become perfect organs; and we may also add that there are, even among existing Endopterygota, species in which the wings are usually vestiges and yet sometimes become perfectly developed.