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say it: wahynd
wind is a noun and verb meaning "air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure". It carries 15 recorded senses.
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
“trees bent under the fierce winds”
“when there is no wind, row”
“the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere”
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
“that's a lot of wind”
“don't give me any of that jazz”
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
form into a wreath
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wind come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.