Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something wound about a center or an object.
- noun The way in which something is wound.
- noun One complete turn of something wound.
- noun A curve or bend, as of a road.
- adjective Twisting or turning; sinuous.
- adjective Spiral.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Curving; spiral: as, a winding stair.
- Full of bends or turns: as, a winding path.
- Warped; twisted; bent; crooked: as, a winding surface.
- noun Any portion of an electric circuit which is coiled.
- noun A call by the boatswain's whistle.
- noun A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander: as, the windings of a road or stream.
- noun A twist in any surface, so that all its parts do not lie in the same plane; a casting or warping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
- adjective Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
- noun A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander.
- noun (Elec.) The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material
- noun an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
- noun a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
wind . - noun something
wound around something else - noun the
manner in which something is wound - noun one
complete turn of something wound - noun electrical a length of
wire wound around thecore of anelectrical transformer - adjective
twisting ,turning orsinuous - adjective
spiral orhelical - verb UK to turn a boat around in a canal
- noun the act or process of winding (turning around)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of winding or twisting
- adjective of a path e.g.
- adjective marked by repeated turns and bends
Etymologies
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Examples
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Such a winding, as is shown in Fig. 96, where the two wires are laid on side by side, is called a _parallel differential winding_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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Early this year, with his term winding to a close, he called a referendum for June 28, which if approved, would call a constitutional convention for the purpose of replacing the current constitution with a brand new one.
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The main winding is a Lotus-O-Deltoid type placed in panamdermic semi-boloid slots of the stator with every seventh conductor connected by a non-reversible trunion pipe to the differential girdle spring on the upend of the gram meters.
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With the title winding down, this issue provides a nice interlude before the finale.
Comic Book Resources 2009
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Moreover, with regards to the redeployment from Iraq, PolitiFact found Obama has kept his promise to begin winding down our involvement and is on pace to do so by his August deadline.
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In one episode, when I got involved in winding up the failed subsidiary of a large European bank, I noticed on the expense ledger that a rival consulting firm had racked up $5 million in fees from the same subsidiary.
The Management Myth 2006
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In one episode, when I got involved in winding up the failed subsidiary of a large European bank, I noticed on the expense ledger that a rival consulting firm had racked up $5 million in fees from the same subsidiary.
The Management Myth 2006
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Top-seeded Carolina Kostner of Italy, the 2005 world bronze medalist, was the flop of the event in winding up seventh.
USATODAY.com - Czisny has golden performance at Skate Canada 2005
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"The main winding was of the normal Lotus odeltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator."
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We also had a delicious game of a labyrinth of lines, which it was necessary to traverse with the pencil without touching the hedges, as I called the winding marks.
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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