 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
winding
adjective
1: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the
mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had
to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: {tortuous},
{twisting}, {twisty}]
2: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest
paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a
winding country road" [syn: {meandering(a)}, {rambling}, {wandering(a)}]
noun: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old
clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: {wind}, {twist}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wind \Wind\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely
{Winded}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS.
windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan,
Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf.
{Wander}, {Wend}.]
1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to
turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions
about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe;
as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind
The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton.
2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak.
3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's
pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to
govern. ''To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.'' --Shak.
In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer.
Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please
And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick.
Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might
wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
--Addison.
4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind
Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak.
Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in
such things into discourse. --Gov. of
Tongue.
5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to
wind a rope with twine.
{To wind off}, to unwind; to uncoil.
{To wind out}, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
{To wind up}.
(a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of
thread; to coil completely.
(b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up
one's affairs; to wind up an argument.
(c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a
clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that
which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for
continued movement or action; to put in order anew.
''Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.''
--Dryden. ''Thus they wound up his temper to a
pitch.'' --Atterbury.
(d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so
as to tune it. ''Wind up the slackened strings of thy
lute.'' --Waller.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wind \Wind\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Winding}.]
1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as,
the hounds winded the game.
3.
(a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a
horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of
breath.
(b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to
be recovered; to breathe.
{To wind a ship} (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the
wind strikes it on the opposite side.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wind \Wind\, verb (used with an object) [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in
sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p.
{Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.]
To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged
and mutually involved notes. ''Hunters who wound their
horns.'' --Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, .
. .
Wind the shrill horn. --Pope.
That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W.
Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Winding \Wind"ing\, noun
1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as,
the windings of a road or stream.
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
--Milton.
2. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about
anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as
(Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature
coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form
a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a
character that the armature current is divided, a portion
of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Winding engine}, an engine employed in mining to draw up
buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
{Winding sheet}, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or
wrapped.
{Winding tackle} (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed
triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used
for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel.
--Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Winding \Wind"ing\, noun [From {Wind} to blow.] (Naut.)
A call by the boatswain's whistle.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Winding \Wind"ing\, adjective [From {Wind} to twist.]
Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
--Keble.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "winding":
aberrant, aberrative, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity,
anfractuous, bending, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages,
circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution,
convoluted, convolution, convolutional, crinkle, crinkling,
crooked, curving, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating,
deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, errant,
erratic, excursive, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness,
indirect, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional,
labyrinthine, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, out-of-the-way,
planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roundabout,
roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose,
sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky,
stray, swerving, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility,
tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, turning, twisting, twisty,
undirected, undulation, vagrant, veering, wandering, wave, waving,
whorled, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag
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