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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