winding
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwaɪndɪŋ/
- present participle of wind#English|wind
winding
- Something wound around something else.
- The manner in which something is wound.
- One complete turn of something wound.
- 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,
- […] my mother’s pale arms emerged from the windings of her sheets and flailed in the air […]
- 1966, Cynthia Ozick, Trust, New York: The New American Library, Part One, Chapter 7, p. 44,
- (especially, in the plural) Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
- 1610, John Healey (translator), The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,
- The Labyrinth] A building so entangled in windings and cyrcles, that it deceiueth all that come in it.
- 1706, William Congreve, The Double Dealer, London: Jacob Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 9,
- […] in vain I do disguise me from thee, thou know’st me, know’st the very inmost Windings and Recesses of my Soul.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Penguin, 2018, Chapter 2, p. 88,
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter ,
- Eugene Forcarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim.
- 1985, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, Emblem, 2017, Chapter 33,
- If you went down the river long enough, along its sinewy windings, you’d reach the sea […]
- 1610, John Healey (translator), The City of God by Augustine of Hippo, London: George Eld, Book 13, p. 680,
- (electrical) A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
- (musical instruments, lutherie, bowmaking) Lapping.
- Portuguese: enrolado, enrolada
- Russian: обмо́тка
- Russian: нама́тывание
- Russian: обмо́тка
- Italian: avvolgimento
- Russian: обмо́тка
winding
Translations Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
- present participle of wind#English|wind
winding
- The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).
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