Usually means: Flat surface generating lift aerodynamically.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. wing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wing, wing: Wordnik
  7. wing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wing, Wing, Wing, Wing, Wing, Wing, Wing, Wing, Wing: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Wing, wing: Wiktionary
  10. wing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wing: Dictionary.com
  14. wing (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wing (workspace), WING (AM), WING, WinG, Wing (DC Comics), Wing (South Park), Wing (air force unit), Wing (automotive), Wing (aviation), Wing (bird), Wing (building), Wing (company), Wing (disambiguation), Wing (military aviation unit), Wing (military unit), Wing (rugby union), Wing (singer), Wing (theater), Wing (waltz), Wing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wing: Rhymezone
  20. wing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. (Car) Wing, Wing (car): Britih-American Dictionary
  23. wing: Free Dictionary
  24. wing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Wing, wing: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. wing: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. wing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WING (AM), wing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WING (AM), Wing (disambiguation), wing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WING (AM), wing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. WING: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. wing: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wing: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wing, wing, wing, wing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wing: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. wing, wing, the wing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Wing: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See winged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
noun:  A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
noun:  (slang) Human arm.
noun:  (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
noun:  One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
noun:  One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
noun:  (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
noun:  (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
noun:  A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
noun:  Passage by flying; flight.
noun:  Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
noun:  A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
noun:  One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
noun:  Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
noun:  A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
noun:  An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
noun:  A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
noun:  A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
noun:  An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
noun:  (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
noun:  (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
noun:  (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
noun:  (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
noun:  (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
noun:  (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
noun:  (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
noun:  (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
noun:  (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
noun:  (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
noun:  A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
noun:  On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
verb:  (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
verb:  (intransitive) To fly.
verb:  (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
verb:  (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
verb:  (transitive) To throw.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with wings.
verb:  (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
verb:  (transitive) To traverse by flying.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A large village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8822).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8903).
noun:  An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States.
noun:  A small town in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States.
noun:  (slang, MLE) Short for prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.

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