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▸ 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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