What's the difference between turban and wind?

Turban


Definition:

  • (n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
  • (n.) A kind of headdress worn by women.
  • (n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A turban dressing is used on the scrotum for 24 hours, and the patient is discharged with oral pain medication.
  • (2) Batmanghelidjh arrived in a black cab, dressed in her signature bright clothing and elaborate turban, to offer words of thanks and support to the crowd.
  • (3) The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled.
  • (4) In March this year in the US, a letter was sent to a Sikh family – addressed to the "Turban Family" – claiming to know they had links to the Taliban.
  • (5) 3.46pm: This appears to show photographic proof that Karoubi was indeed roughed-up and that his turban was knocked off.
  • (6) One drawing depicted the Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, while in another he wielded a sword.
  • (7) Otherwise his appearance – in a white tunic and turban - was quite neat, in stark contrast to the saggy white undershirt he wore in photographs taken after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003.
  • (8) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
  • (9) After the ruling was announced, men in suits, straw hats or turbans, many brandishing traditional fly-whisks, and women in headscarves and colourful dresses danced around the garden behind the headquarters of the KHRC.
  • (10) Likewise, a fifth thought that an employer should be able to insist a Sikh man take off his turban at work, and 15% believed that a Christian woman should take off her crucifix.
  • (11) With her bright turbans and dazzling charisma, Batmanghelidjh is a colossally successful networker and fundraiser.
  • (12) Two men, both bearded and wearing the trademark thick-coiled black turban, were sitting in the shade behind a friend's workshop.
  • (13) We present an unusual case of massive dermal cylindroma (turban tumor), occupying the entire scalpand forehead.
  • (14) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
  • (15) Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi, in black turban, with Ayatollah Jannati Raeisi, who holds the clerical rank of hojjatoleslam, is a different character.
  • (16) I immediately went out to see and when I opened my door, a turbaned man pointed a gun at me and told me go back inside."
  • (17) The sight of black--turbaned men holding forth on plans for the Islamic Emirate brought memories of the 1990s flooding back for many.
  • (18) That scuttled the process, but dramatic pictures of men in black turbans giving a press conference like members of a government-in-exile were already bouncing around the internet.
  • (19) She would write to him that she once spotted him at the ballet without knowing his identity - “you had a turban on and I think I thought you had been born in it”.
  • (20) As a student I was the first American Sikh to play for the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a turban.

Wind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
  • (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  • (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
  • (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
  • (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
  • (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
  • (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
  • (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
  • (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
  • (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  • (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
  • (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
  • (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  • (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  • (n.) The dotterel.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  • (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
  • (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  • (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
  • (12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
  • (15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
  • (16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
  • (19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
  • (20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."