| 单词 | wind |
| 释义 | wind (once / 32 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5vn When wind rhymes with "grinned," it refers to moving air, as in a breeze, or what fills the sails of a boat. When wind rhymes with "kind," it meals to turn, as in winding one's watch. There are all kinds of ways to wind: You can wind a ball of yard, wind up to take a swing, or wind your way home. There are all types of wind, too, from a light breeze (top wind speed of 7 mph) to a hurricane-force wind (wind speed greater than 73 mph). A wind instrument is one where the music is made by blowing into or over a mouthpiece. WORD FAMILYwind: unwind, winded, winder, winding, windless, winds, windy+/unwind: unwinded, unwinding, unwinds, unwound/winded: windedest, windedly/winder: winders/winding: self-winding, windingly, windings/windless: windlessly, windlessness/windy: windier, windiest, windily, windiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe air temperature topped out at 55 degrees, but the wind, rain and sea spray from the vessel’s wake chilled to the bone. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) GE wants to build a similar, “virtual twin” of every category of physical asset it sells, from locomotives to wind farms. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) Aviation experts say fuel consumption can be influenced by several factors, including winds aloft and the weight the aircraft is carrying. Wall Street Journal(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure trees bent under the fierce winds when there is no wind, row Syn|Hypo|Hyper air current, current of air airstream a relatively well-defined prevailing wind calm, calm airwind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale air, breeze, gentle wind, zephyra slight wind (usually refreshing) chinook, chinook wind, snow eatera warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies harmattana dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter crosswindwind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft foehn, fohna warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps khamsinan oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring Santa Anaa strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast high winda very strong wind headwindwind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft catabatic wind, katabatic winda wind caused by the downward motion of cold air tailwindwind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft doldrumsa belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific east wind, easter, easterlya wind from the east northwest wind, northwestera wind from the northwest sou'wester, southwestera strong wind from the southwest sou'easter, southeastera strong wind from the southeast galea strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale blast, blow, gusta strong current of air monsoona seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter monsoonany wind that changes direction with the seasons boreas, north wind, norther, northerlya wind that blows from the north prevailing windthe predominant wind direction samiel, simoom, simoona violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa south wind, souther, southerlya wind from the south squallsudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation thermalrising current of warm air draft, draughta current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) west wind, westerwind that blows from west to east antitradeswind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds bise, bizea dry cold north wind in southeastern France sea breezea cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime) breatha slight movement of the air light airwind moving 1-3 knots; 1 on the Beaufort scale light breezewind moving 4-7 knots; 2 on the Beaufort scale gentle breezewind moving 8-12 knots; 3 on the Beaufort scale moderate breezewind moving 13-18 knots; 4 on the Beaufort scale fresh breezewind moving 19-24 knots; 5 on the Beaufort scale strong breezewind moving 25-31 knots; 6 on the Beaufort scale moderate gale, near galewind moving 32-38 knots; 7 on the Beaufort scale fresh galewind moving 39-46 knots; 8 on the Beaufort scale strong galewind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale whole galewind moving 55-63 knots; 10 on the Beaufort scale blustera violent gusty wind sandblasta blast of wind laden with sand jet streama high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere; has important effects of the formation of weather fronts levanteran easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area mistrala strong north wind that blows in France during the winter puff, puff of air, whiffa short light gust of air line squalla squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line trade, trade windsteady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator antitrade, antitrade windwinds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics tramontana, tramontanea cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean updrafta strong upward air current downdrafta strong downward air current prevailing westerly, westerlythe winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth atmospheric condition, conditions, weather, weather condition the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation 2n a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath Syn|Hypo|Hyper wind instrument brass, brass instrument a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece free-reed instrumenta wind instrument with a free reed kazooa toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece ocarina, sweet potatoegg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes organ, pipe organwind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard organ pipe, pipe, pipeworkthe flues and stops on a pipe organ pipea tubular wind instrument post hornwind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries whistlea small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it wood, woodwind, woodwind instrumentany wind instrument other than the brass instruments accordion, piano accordion, squeeze boxa portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player American organa free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows bagpipea tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone baritone, baritone hornthe second lowest brass wind instrument bass horn, sousaphone, tubathe lowest brass wind instrument beating-reed instrument, reed, reed instrumenta musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed buglea brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares chanter, melody pipereed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played clariona medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone concertinafree-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds cornet, horn, trump, trumpeta brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves bourdon, drone, drone pipea pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone fipple flute, fipple pipe, recorder, vertical flutea tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece flue, flue pipe, labial pipeorgan pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip fluegelhorn, flugelhorna brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore flute, transverse flutea high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown French horn, horna brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves harmonica, harp, mouth harp, mouth organa small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole harmonium, organ, reed organa free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows organ stopa graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality pandean pipe, panpipe, syrinxa primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together pitch pipea small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency; used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing reed pipeorgan pipe with a vibrating reed saxhornany of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves trombonea brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide instrument, musical instrument any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds 3v catch the scent of; get wind of 2Syn|Hyper nose, scent smell inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense 1n a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus Hyper inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus 2n breath 3the collision knocked the wind out of him Hyper breathing out, exhalation, expiration the act of expelling air from the lungs 1n a tendency or force that influences events the winds of change Hyper influence the effect of one thing (or person) on another 2n an indication of potential opportunity 4Syn|Hyper confidential information, hint, lead, steer, tip counsel, counseling, counselling, direction, guidance something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action n empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk 5that's a lot of wind Syn|Hyper idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, nothingness talk, talking an exchange of ideas via conversation 1v to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course the river winds through the hills Syn|Hypo|Hyper meander, thread, wander, weave wander go via an indirect route or at no set pace snake move along a winding path go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v arrange or or coil around Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper roll, twine, wrap unroll, unwind, wind off reverse the winding or twisting of spool wind onto a spool or a reel reelwind onto or off a reel ballform into a ball by winding or rolling clew, clueroll into a ball coil, curl, loopwind around something in coils or loops cheesewind onto a cheese reel off, unreelunwind from or as if from a reel displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3v coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem wind your watch Syn|Hyper wind up fasten, tighten make tight or tighter 4v extend in curves and turns The road winds around the lake Syn|Hypo|Hyper curve, twist circumvolute wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail spiralform a spiral snakeform a snake-like pattern be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 5v form into a wreath Syn|Hyper wreathe enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine spin,wind, or twist together 6v raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help Syn|Hypo|Hyper hoist, lift trice, trice up hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise raise from a lower to a higher position 7n the act of winding or twisting he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind Syn|Hyper twist, winding rotary motion, rotation the act of rotating as if on an axis |
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