Usually means: Air moving horizontally across Earth.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wind, wind: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wind, wind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wind, wind, wind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wind: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wind: Vocabulary.com
  6. WInd, Wind, wind: Wordnik
  7. wind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wind: Wiktionary
  9. wind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wind: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. w.ind, wind, wind, the wind: Dictionary.com
  13. wind (n.), wind (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wind: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Wind (Warren Zevon album), The Wind (Zac Brown Band song), The Wind (album), The Wind (band), The Wind (film), The Wind (novel), The Wind (poem), The Wind (song), The Wind, The wind, WIND (AM), WIND (Italy), WIND (spacecraft), Wind (Akeboshi), Wind (Akeboshi song), Wind (Canada), Wind (Miami), Wind (Sister Hazel extended play), Wind (band), Wind (classical element), Wind (disambiguation), Wind (film), Wind (song), Wind (spacecraft), Wind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wind: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wind: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wind: Rhymezone
  19. Wind (der Vernderung) (m), Wind (m), Wind, wind (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wind: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wind: Free Dictionary
  22. wind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Wind, wind: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. wind: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wind: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  2. Wind: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wind: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WIND: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. wind: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wind: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  3. WIND: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wind, wind, wind: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
noun:  Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
noun:  (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
noun:  (figurative) A tendency or trend.
noun:  (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
noun:  One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
noun:  (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
noun:  Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
noun:  (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
noun:  A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
noun:  Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
noun:  A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
noun:  (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
noun:  A bird, the dotterel.
noun:  (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
verb:  (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
verb:  (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
verb:  (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
verb:  (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
verb:  (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
verb:  (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
verb:  (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
verb:  (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
verb:  (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
verb:  (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel in a way that is not straight.
verb:  (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
verb:  (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
noun:  The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
noun:  A surname

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