• enPR: wĭnd, IPA: /ˈwɪnd/
• (archaic) enPR: wīnd, IPA: /ˈwaɪnd/

wind

1. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.

   The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.

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

   The winds in Chicago are fierce.

   There was a sudden gust of wind''.

2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

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

3. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.

   After the second lap he was already out of wind.

   The fall knocked the wind out of him.

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

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

5. One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements).
6. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.

   Eww. Someone just passed wind.

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

   • Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.

8. (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
9. 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".
   • Bible, Ezekiel xxxvii. 9

     Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.

10. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
11. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
12. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

      Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.

13. A bird, the dotterel.
14. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.

• (movement of air) breeze, draft, gale; see also Thesaurus:wind
• (flatus) gas (US); see also Thesaurus:flatus

wind (winds, present participle winding; past and past participle winded)

1. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.

   The boxer was winded during round two.

3. (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
4. (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
5. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
6. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.

   The hounds winded the game.

7. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
8. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.

• enPR: wīnd, IPA: /waɪnd/

wind (winds, present participle winding; past and past participle wound)

1. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.

   to wind thread on a spool or into a ball

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.

   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828 ↗, page 01 ↗:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

2. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.

   Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.

3. (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.

4. (intransitive) To travel in a way that is not straight.

   Vines wind round a pole.  The river winds through the plain.

   • 1829, Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:

     He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which […] winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.

   • 1751, Thomas Gray,

     The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

   • 1969, Paul McCartney, The Long and Winding Road

     The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.

5. (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus

   • Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.

   • 12 October 1710, Joseph Addison, ''The Examiner (1710–1714) No. 5

     Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

6. (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:

     You have contrived […] to wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.

   • little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse

7. (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.

   to wind a rope with twine

8. (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
   • 2012, "Rural Affairs", Anna Hutton-North, Lulu.com ISBN 1471790428

     quote en

9. (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.

wind (plural winds)

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