Crossword clues for winding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wound (wound) (rarely Winded); p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. Wander, Wend.]
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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor.
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To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
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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. ``To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.''
--Shak.In his terms so he would him wind.
--Chaucer.Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses.
--Herrick.Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
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To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical.
--Shak.Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse.
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To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. To wind off, to unwind; to uncoil. To wind out, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon. To wind up.
To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely.
To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument.
To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. ``Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.''
--Dryden. ``Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.''
--Atterbury.To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. ``Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.''
--Waller.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
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To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From Wind, moving air, but confused in
sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p.
Wound (wound), R. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged
and mutually involved notes. ``Hunters who wound their
horns.''
--Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, .
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Wind the shrill horn.
--Pope.
That blast was winded by the king.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Winding \Wind"ing\, n.
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A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
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The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as (Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.
Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.
Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel.
--Totten.
Winding \Wind"ing\, n. [From Wind to blow.] (Naut.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Winding \Wind"ing\, a. [From Wind to twist.]
Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
--Keble.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 twisting, turning or sinuous 2 spiral or helical n. 1 something wound around something else 2 the manner in which something is wound 3 one complete turn of something wound 4 (context electrical English) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer v
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(present participle of wind English) Etymology 2
n. the act or process of winding (turning around) vb. (present participle of wind English)
WordNet
adj. marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty]
of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a)]
Wikipedia
Winding is a common name for an electromagnetic coil.
Winding may also refer to:
People with the given name Winding:
- Johannes Winding Harbitz (1831–1917), Norwegian politician
- Kai Winding (1922–1983), Danish trombonist and jazz composer
- Nicolas Winding Refn (born 1970), Danish filmmaker
Other uses:
- Winding number, an integer representing the total number of times that a curve travels counterclockwise around a point
- Winding hole, a widened section of canal used for turning boats
- Winding, the lowering and raising of men and equipment in mining
- Getting the wind knocked out of you
Usage examples of "winding".
Memphis had pursued its winding course through an alluvial country, made when abreast of Vicksburg a sharp turn to the northeast, as though determined to reach the bluffs but four miles distant.
I spared little time away from that book, and studied in it incessantly the ways and windings of magic, till I could hold communication with Genii, and wield charms to summon them, and utter spells that subdue them, discovering the haunts of talismans that enthral Afrites and are powerful among men.
Morton on a long winding route through tough passes and clinging to contour lines along alarmingly steep slopes.
An amine solution pump came on, a vent fan winding up in the space, whirring quietly in the otherwise church like quiet.
It now appears that the unheard-of currents, amounting to millions of amperes, which flowed momentarily in the windings of our generator must have produced a certain extension into four dimensions, for a fraction of a second and in a 7volume large enough to contain a man.
He drove up the winding valley road, past turn-off signs to the Grosser Arber and the Kleine Arbersee.
Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.
From a chamber on the right, near a winding staircase covered with blue-and-white tiles, came the sound of laughter, of song, and of a hideous music conveyed to the astonied ear by pipes and drums.
She lay back on the bed, staring through the transparent roof at the lazy winding valleys beyond the dimming axial light-tube.
Jim - is to the dark kid and his wife scared to death their only prospect is winding up bibs in some gov warehouse.
Presently, after threading their way among a multitude of locomotives, with and without trains attached, that backed and advanced, or stood still, hissing impatiently on every side, they passed through the station to a broad planking above the river on the other side, and thence, after encounter of more locomotives, they found, by dint of much asking, a street winding up the hill-side to the left, and leading to the German Bierhaus that gives access to the best view of the cataract.
When, on their return journey, they had regained the summit of the Armboth Fell, and were about to descend past Blea Tarn towards Wythburn, they stood for a moment at that highest point and took a last glimpse of the mournful little company, with the one riderless horse in front, that wended its way slowly beyond Rosthwaite, along the banks of the winding Derwent, which looked to them now like a thin streak of blue in the deep valley below.
Forest to Bracknell, passing Bordon Grove about halfway along its winding route.
He took three wrong turnings, the third into a winding country road that crossed and recrossed a river, only to deteriorate to a boreen and then end in a rutted field.
I looked away, down at Bossy, who was still winding herself about my legs.