(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."
Zephyr
Definition:
(n.) The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fully refined rapessed oils of high (regular rapeseed oil, B. campestris) and low erucic acid content (Span oil, B. campestris; commercially hydrogenated Span oil and Zephyr oil, B. napus) and soybean oil were fed to male and female Sprague-Dawley rats at a level of 15% by weight in the diet.
(2) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
(3) This will include a weaponised Zephyr drone that is capable of remaining in the air for months.
(4) Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) Clinton ad announcing campaign is surprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy, vision.
(5) The resolution of IgG and its fragments was better in all cases on S-Zephyr than on Mono-S under the conditions employed.
(6) Rats from all strains except Hooded fed the diet containing 20% Zephyr RSO had a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence of myocardial lesions than rats fed the 20% corn oil diet which in turn had a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence than rats fed 5% corn oil.
(7) S-Zephyr, a new column material for high performance cation exchange chromatography of proteins, is compared with Mono-S.
(8) I think Biden will have a hard time getting a lot of populist energy if he doesn’t come out with a strong contrast to Clinton on all these issues,” says Zephyr Teachout, a New York law professor and prominent supporter of Warren.
(9) None of the Hooded rats fed the diet containing 20% Zephyr RSO developed myocardial lesions whereas all other strains fed this diet developed a high incidence of myocardial lesions.
(10) They walked out after discovering that men doing the same work – making car seats for Cortinas and Zephyrs – were being paid 15% more.
(11) Zuckerberg said key members of the team were from the UK-based firm Ascenta, which created early versions of Zephyr, the world's longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft.
(12) However, in experiment 2 the groups fed the diets containing regular rapeseed oil or Span oil showed significantly (P less than 0.05) lower body weight gains when compared to soybean oil fed groups but not when compared to the hydrogenated Span or Zephyr oil fed groups.
(13) Zephyr on enzymic incubation yielded comparable amounts of thiocyanate ion, suggesting that the precursor responsible in the two varieties was the same and present in similar quantities.
(14) Meanwhile, Cuomo has been busy spending $2.5m every two weeks to fend off his progressive primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout .
(15) Monarchy and equality are incompatible bedfellows, but it would be churlish not to welcome the news that a zephyr of egalitarian zeal has at last blown through court and political circles.
(16) Ian Dowding and his mother and sister sitting on the (hot) roof of his dad’s Ford Zephyr in Cornwall 1956.
(17) Zephyr) showed the presence of t,iocyanate ion, while meal from heated seed of the same cultivar did not show detectable amounts.
(18) Rats fed a diet containing 20% Zephyr rapeseed oil showed a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence of heart lesions than did rats fed diets containing 5% or 20% corn oil.
(19) I was not particularly impressed with it,” said Zephyr Teachout, a New York Democrat who ran for governor in 2014, warning on Twitter it was “surprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy [and] vision”.
(20) Take Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham university who has written extensively on political corruption in the US.