Meaning of "wind" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WIND

Old English wind; related to Old High German wint, Old Norse vindr, Gothic winds, Latin ventus.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF WIND

wind  [wɪnd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIND

Wind is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb wind in English.

WHAT DOES WIND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wind

Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in our solar system occur on Neptune and Saturn. Winds have various aspect, one important aspect is its velocity; another the density of the gas involved; another is the energy content or wind energy of a wind. In meteorology, winds are often referred to according to their strength, and the direction from which the wind is blowing. Short bursts of high speed wind are termed gusts. Strong winds of intermediate duration are termed squalls. Long-duration winds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, hurricane, and typhoon.

Definition of wind in the English dictionary

The first definition of wind in the dictionary is the direction from which a wind blows, usually a cardinal point of the compass. Other definition of wind is air artificially moved, as by a fan, pump, etc. Wind is also any sweeping and destructive force.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WIND

PRESENT

Present

I wind

you wind

he/she/it winds

we wind

you wind

they wind

Present continuous

I am winding

you are winding

he/she/it is winding

we are winding

you are winding

they are winding

Present perfect

I have winded

you have winded

he/she/it has winded

we have winded

you have winded

they have winded

Present perfect continuous

I have been winding

you have been winding

he/she/it has been winding

we have been winding

you have been winding

they have been winding

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I winded

you winded

he/she/it winded

we winded

you winded

they winded

Past continuous

I was winding

you were winding

he/she/it was winding

we were winding

you were winding

they were winding

Past perfect

I had winded

you had winded

he/she/it had winded

we had winded

you had winded

they had winded

Past perfect continuous

I had been winding

you had been winding

he/she/it had been winding

we had been winding

you had been winding

they had been winding

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will wind

you will wind

he/she/it will wind

we will wind

you will wind

they will wind

Future continuous

I will be winding

you will be winding

he/she/it will be winding

we will be winding

you will be winding

they will be winding

Future perfect

I will have winded

you will have winded

he/she/it will have winded

we will have winded

you will have winded

they will have winded

Future perfect continuous

I will have been winding

you will have been winding

he/she/it will have been winding

we will have been winding

you will have been winding

they will have been winding

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would wind

you would wind

he/she/it would wind

we would wind

you would wind

they would wind

Conditional continuous

I would be winding

you would be winding

he/she/it would be winding

we would be winding

you would be winding

they would be winding

Conditional perfect

I would have wind

you would have wind

he/she/it would have wind

we would have wind

you would have wind

they would have wind

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been winding

you would have been winding

he/she/it would have been winding

we would have been winding

you would have been winding

they would have been winding

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you wind
we let´s wind
you wind

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to wind

Past participle

winded

Present Participle

winding

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «WIND»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «wind» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of wind

air · babble · bend · bizzo · blast · blather · bluster · boasting · breath · breeze · bull´s wool · codswallop · coil · curl · curve · deviate · draught · encircle · eyewash · flatulence · flatus · furl · gab · gas · gust · hot air · humbug · hurricane · loop · meander · nonsense · puff · ramble · reel · respiration · snake · spiral · talk · turn · twaddle · twine · twist · wrap · wreathe · zephyr · zigzag

TRANSLATION OF WIND

Find out the translation of wind to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of wind from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wind» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 风
• Translator English - Spanish: viento
• English: wind
• Translator English - Hindi: हवा
• Translator English - Arabic: رِيح
• Translator English - Russian: ветер
• Translator English - Portuguese: vento
• Translator English - Bengali: বায়ু
• Translator English - French: vent
• Translator English - Malay: Angin
• Translator English - German: Wind
• Translator English - Japanese: 風
• Translator English - Korean: 바람
• Translator English - Javanese: Angin
• Translator English - Vietnamese: gió
• Translator English - Tamil: காற்று
• Translator English - Marathi: वारा
• Translator English - Turkish: rüzgar
• Translator English - Italian: vento
• Translator English - Polish: wiatr
• Translator English - Ukrainian: вітер
• Translator English - Romanian: vânt
• Translator English - Greek: άνεμος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: wind
• Translator English - Swedish: vind
• Translator English - Norwegian: vind

10 QUOTES WITH «WIND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wind.

1

Eden Ahbez

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

2

Rodney Atkins

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

3

Richard Bach

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

4

Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

5

Keegan Bradley

Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

6

John Bright

Popular applause veers with the wind.

7

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

8

Anne Bronte

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

9

John Byng

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

10

Giacomo Casanova

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIND»

Discover the use of wind in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wind and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One

It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.

Patrick Rothfuss, 2007

The Shadow of the Wind

But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 2005

Gone with the Wind

This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life.

Margaret Mitchell, 2007

Inherit the Wind

Dramatizes the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in which William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed over a teacher's right to teach evolution. Reprint.

Jerome Lawrence, Robert Edwin Lee, 2003

Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, ...

The second edition accounts for the emerging concerns over increasing numbers of installed wind turbines. In particular, an important new chapter has been added which deals with offshore wind utilisation.

Erich Hau, Horst von Renouard, 2005

Petals on the Wind

For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds.

V.C. Andrews, 2011

Wind: with audio recording

Though you can’t see the wind, you can certainly feel it when the wind blows! But where does wind come from? There are so many wonders of wind to explore—and the answers are at your fingertips in this eBook with audio!

Marion Dane Bauer, 2013

Wind

Text by Vicki Goldberg, Eugenia Parry.

Chŏng-jin Yi, Vicki Goldberg, Jungjin Lee, 2009

Like a Mighty Wind

The story of God's powerful revival in this region remains a testament to the truth of God's Word, and serves as a reminder to all believers that the Spirit of God manifests in our world now as it did in the earliest days of the Church.

Mel Tari, 1997

A Voice in the Wind

This classic series has already inspired nearly 2 million readers, but both loyal fans and new readers will want this 20th anniversary edition of a Christian classic, which includes a foreword from the publisher, a letter from and Q & A ...

Francine Rivers, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wind is used in the context of the following news items.

A milestone for wind energy: Work underway on first offshore …

With the lowering of giant steel legs to the sea bottom off Rhode Island, construction has officially begun on the country's first offshore wind farm, starting what ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

APNewsBreak: South getting its first big wind farm soon

This undated photo made available by Iberdrola Renewables LLC shows wind turbines on a corn and soybean farm in Trimont, Minn. The company will be ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»

Coalition bans government's clean energy bank from financing wind …

Wonthaggi wind farm in Wonthaggi, Victoria. The Abbott government has announced its Clean Energy Finance Corporation will no longer fund wind projects. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Massive wind farm to power Facebook's $1B data center campus in …

Social media giant Facebook will invest up to $1 billion to build a massive global data campus in north Fort Worth, which will draw renewable power from a wind ... «Dallas Business Journal, Jul 15»

Rogers-Mobilicity deal shakes up spectrum landscape, rewards Wind

While Mobilicity has finally found a buyer – selling to Rogers Communications Inc. for $465-million after more than two years in legal and financial limbo – Wind ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»

End of wind farm subsidies 'could cost Scotland £3bn'

Scotland could lose £3bn in investment because of a UK government decision to exclude new onshore wind farms from a subsidy scheme a year earlier than ... «BBC News, Jun 15»

Machinery, Workers and Even Wind Spread Bird Flu: Report

The H5N2 bird flu that's killed or forced the slaughter of 49 million birds and driven up the price of eggs is being spread by poor hygiene practices and might ... «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»

Wind turbines are already huge, but they're about to get way, way …

In the United States, the boom in wind energy has been dramatic. Last year wind generation grew more than all other sources of energy in the United States ... «Washington Post, May 15»

Once bought for $20, 'Gone With the Wind' dress sold for $137000 at …

It was the most sought after item among roughly 150 pieces of "Gone With the Wind" memorabilia on sale in the auction. They come from the huge collection ... «CNN, Apr 15»

Hoffman grabs early lead at windy Valero

Weather dominated the early storylines at the Valero Texas Open, where high winds blew more than two dozen players north of 80. When the dust settled in the ... «Golf Channel, Mar 15»