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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
Damien Chazelle

Meaning of "wind up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WIND UP

wind up  [waɪnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIND UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wind up 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.

WHAT DOES WIND UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wind up in the English dictionary

The first definition of wind up in the dictionary is to bring to or reach a conclusion. Other definition of wind up is to tighten the spring of. Wind up is also to make nervous, tense, etc; excite.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WIND UP


behind
bɪˈhaɪnd
bind
baɪnd
blind
blaɪnd
combined
kəmˈbaɪnd
confined
kənˈfaɪnd
find
faɪnd
grind
ɡraɪnd
hind
haɪnd
humankind
ˌhjuːmənˈkaɪnd
inclined
ɪnˈklaɪnd
kind
kaɪnd
lined
ˈlaɪnd
mankind
ˌmænˈkaɪnd
mind
maɪnd
one-of-a-kind
ˌwʌnəvəˈkaɪnd
refined
rɪˈfaɪnd
remind
rɪˈmaɪnd
rewind
riːˈwaɪnd
undefined
ˌʌndɪˈfaɪnd
unsigned
ʌnˈsaɪnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIND UP

wind deflector
wind down
wind farm
wind gap
wind gauge
wind generator
wind harp
wind instrument
wind machine
wind power
Wind River Range
wind rose
wind scale
wind shake
wind shear
wind sleeve
wind surge
wind tee
wind tunnel
wind vane

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIND UP

add up
build up
dressed up
end up
fed up
fired up
get the wind up
keep one´s end up
land up
mixed up
on the up and up
put the wind up
read up
round up
screwed up
send up
speed up
stand up
wound up
wrapped up

Synonyms and antonyms of wind up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WIND UP»

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

Translation of «wind up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIND UP

Find out the translation of wind up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wind up 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 up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

上发条的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de cuerda
570 millions of speakers

English

wind up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تصل الرياح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ветра до
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a corda
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাতাস প্রবাহিত হচ্ছে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mécanique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Angin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aufzieh-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ねじ巻き式の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

태엽을 돌려 작동하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angin munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hoàn thành
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முடித்து விடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुंडाळणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sarılmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

a molla
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

likwidacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вітру до
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lichidarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκκαθάριση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wind
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avveckla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avvikle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wind up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIND UP»

The term «wind up» is quite widely used and occupies the 23.985 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WIND UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wind up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wind up» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wind up

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10 QUOTES WITH «WIND UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wind up.
1
Floyd Abrams
I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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
Alec Baldwin
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
4
Justine Bateman
I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
5
Lowell Bergman
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
6
Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
7
Jello Biafra
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
8
Eric Carle
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
9
Damien Chazelle
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
10
Dizzy Dean
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIND UP»

Discover the use of wind up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wind up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of ...
Haruki Murakami, 2010
2
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and ...
In Wherever I Wind Up, Dickey eloquently shares his quintessentially American tale of overcoming extraordinary odds to achieve a game, a career, and a life unlike any other.
R.A. Dickey, 2012
3
Amazing Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, ...
Combining fun and interactive activities, this guide will have kids captivated for hours constructing fantastic racing cars with the basics of only rubber bands, cardboard, and glue.
Mike Rigsby, 2007
4
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide
If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative and helpful. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels.
Matthew Strecher, 2002
5
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
Alexander, a real mouse, wants to be a toy mouse like his friend Willy until he discovers Willy is to be thrown away.
Leo Lionni, 2014
6
Wind-Up Train Book
Three train stories are retold with a new twist! Each story has a sturdy track embedded in the pages which the accompanying wind-up train toy can then be placed upon to follow around and bring the story to life.
Heather Amery, Gillian Doherty, 2008
7
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
Alexander, a real mouse, wants to be a toy mouse like his friend Willy until he discovers Willy is to be thrown away.
‎1974
8
Noisy Wind-up Fire Engine
Three exciting fire engine tales with a wind-up model fire engine to bring the stories to life.
‎2008
9
Forces & Motion: From High-speed Jets to Wind-up Toys
A 3RD TO 6TH GRADE PHYSICAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM. IDEAL FOR HOME SCHOOLERS
Tom DeRosa, Carolyn Reeves, 2008
10
Westclox: Wind-Up
Over 790 images of 100s of Westclox(r) spring wound clocks and watches produced from 1885 to 1970, including victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern styles including "Big Ben," "Baby Ben," and "Pocket Ben" alarm clocks, and ...
Jim Linz, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIND UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wind up is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Goa Government to Wind up E-Tablet Scheme for School Students
"The government is planning to roll down the scheme shortly," Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar told the Goa Assembly in a reply to a query tabled by BJP ... «NDTV, Aug 15»
2
Nth Qld cassowary rehab program to wind up
A program to rehabilitate endangered cassowaries in north Queensland is about to wind up due to financial pressures. Rainforest Rescue's Missions Beach ... «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
3
Peter Andre used to wind up Katie Price and watch the 'fireworks …
Peter used to wind up “emotional” Katie and then watch the “fireworks”, his former TV producer Neville Hendricks claims. Hendricks is suing ITV2 after they ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Players put wind up R&A
It was just one of those situations when it's that strong a wind, if one group isn't playing, everyone shouldn't be playing, because the guys that are actually ... «NZCity, Jul 15»
5
Datamatics Global Services to wind up German subsidiaries
NEW DELHI: Software firm Datamatics Global Services today said it has decided to wind up two of its subsidiary companies in Germany with effect from June 15. «Economic Times, Jun 15»
6
Noble Group Sues Ex-China Customer to Block Bid to Wind Up Unit
Noble Resources' “reputation and credibility would be in serious danger of being irreparably damaged,” if Zhongrui isn't restrained from trying to wind it up, ... «Bloomberg, Jun 15»
7
This Irish lad has schooled everyone in how to wind up your …
He might not always know he's on camera, but John McLoughlin's grandad looks like great craic. From singing A Whole New World from Aladdin, to questioning ... «Irish Mirror, May 15»
8
Cayenne trust to wind up after Hart quits for Witan
The Cayenne investment trust is to wind up after co-manager James Hart quit to ... The board of The Cayenne Trust (TCT ) is to wind up the investment trust after ... «Citywire.co.uk, Feb 15»
9
Alpari co-founder applied to wind up business a year ago
Negotiations on a sale comes as the co-founder of Alpari said he applied to wind up the parent company a year ago because he felt the company was “doomed” ... «Financial Times, Jan 15»
10
Portland job losses put wind up workers in Denis Napthine's electorate
There's no job opportunities, everything is in wind-down mode. ... Mr Teal, who paints towers that are up to 80 metres tall, said around 40 local businesses would ... «The Age, Oct 14»

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