winding
IPA: wˈaɪndɪŋ
noun
- gerund of wind
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- (Britain, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (obsolete, music) A variation in a tune.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”)
- (obsolete)
- A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
- (except dialectal) Synonym of withe or withy (“a flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding”); also, all the withies used to make or repair a wall, or the process of using withies in this manner.
- A surname from Danish.
adjective
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- (obsolete)
- Flexible, pliant.
- (figurative) Morally crooked; crafty, shifty.
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Examples of "winding" in Sentences
- With the title winding down, this issue provides a nice interlude before the finale.
- "The main winding was of the normal Lotus odeltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator."
- Top-seeded Carolina Kostner of Italy, the 2005 world bronze medalist, was the flop of the event in winding up seventh.
- 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_.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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