Broken wind
() The heaves. |
Firm
(superl.) Fixed |
Firm
(superl.) Not easily excited or disturbed |
Firm
(superl.) Solid |
Firm
(superl.) Indicating firmness |
Firm
(a.) The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business |
Firm
(a.) To fix |
Firm
(a.) To fix or direct with firmness. |
Thick wind
() A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. |
Wind
(v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns |
Wind
(v. t.) To entwist |
Wind
(v. t.) To have complete control over |
Wind
(v. t.) To introduce by insinuation |
Wind
(v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about |
Wind
(v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly |
Wind
(v. i.) To have a circular course or direction |
Wind
(v. i.) To go to the one side or the other |
Wind
(n.) The act of winding or turning |
Wind
(n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity |
Wind
(n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action |
Wind
(n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. |
Wind
(n.) Power of respiration |
Wind
(n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels |
Wind
(n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent. |
Wind
(n.) A direction from which the wind may blow |
Wind
(n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. |
Wind
(n.) Mere breath or talk |
Wind
(n.) The dotterel. |
Wind
(v. t.) To expose to the wind |
Wind
(v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent |
Wind
(v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind |
Wind
(v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered |
Wind
(v. t.) To blow |
Wind-break
(v. t.) To break the wind of |
Wind-break
(n.) A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. |
Wind-broken
(a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two |
Wind-fertilized
(a.) Anemophilous |
Wind-plant
(n.) A windflower. |
Wind-rode
(a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide |
Wind-sucker
(n.) A horse given to wind-sucking |
Wind-sucker
(n.) The kestrel. |
Wind-sucking
(n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air |
wind
winding
twist | the act of winding or twisting, he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind |
| wind | breath, the collision knocked the wind out of him |
| second wind | the return of relatively easy breathing after initial exhaustion during continuous exertion |
fart
farting
flatus
wind breaking wind | a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus |
aeolian harp
aeolian lyre
wind harp | a harp having strings tuned in unison, they sound when wind passes over them |
anemometer
wind gauge
wind gage | a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind |
| pinwheel pinwheel wind collector | a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind |
weathervane
weather vane
vane
wind vane | mechanical device attached to an elevated structure, rotates freely to show the direction of the wind |
wind chime
wind bell | a decorative arrangement of pieces of metal or glass or pottery that hang together loosely so the wind can cause them to tinkle |
wind farm
wind park
wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
wind instrument
wind | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath |
windmill
aerogenerator
wind generator | generator that extracts usable energy from winds |
| wind rose | weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions |
| wind tee | weather vane shaped like a T and located at an airfield |
| wind tunnel | a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft |
| wind turbine | a turbine that is driven by the wind |
| second wind | renewed energy or strength to continue an undertaking, She had dinner and got a second wind to finish painting, the employers, initially taken by surprise at the pace of developments, regained their second wind |
| windage wind deflection | the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind |
| windage wind exposure | exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) |
tip
lead steer
confidential information
wind
hint | an indication of potential opportunity, he got a tip on the stock market, a good lead for a job |
wind malarkey
malarky
idle words
jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
windsock
wind sock
sock air sock
air-sleeve
wind sleeve
wind cone
drogue | a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast, used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind |
| firm omelet | eggs beaten with milk or cream and cooked until set |
firm
house business firm | the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments, he worked for a brokerage house |
| accounting firm | a firm of accountants who provide accounting and auditing services for a fee |
consulting firm
consulting company | a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee |
publisher
publishing house
publishing firm
publishing company | a firm in the publishing business |
| law firm | a firm of lawyers |
brokerage
brokerage firm
securities firm | a stock broker's business, charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller |
insurance company
insurance firm
insurer
insurance underwriter
underwriter | a financial institution that sells insurance |
investment company
investment trust
investment firm
fund | a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies |
service agency
service bureau
service firm | a business that makes its facilities available to others for a fee, achieves economy of scale |
mover
public mover
moving company
removal firm
removal company | a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another |
| Wind Cave National Park | a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns |
| wind gap | a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it |
| wind | a tendency or force that influences events, the winds of change |
breeze
zephyr
gentle wind
air | a slight wind (usually refreshing), the breeze was cooled by the lake, as he waited he could feel the air on his neck |
chinook
chinook wind
snow eater | a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies |
| high wind | a very strong wind, rain and high winds covered the region |
katabatic wind
catabatic wind | a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air |
east wind
easter
easterly | a wind from the east |
northwest wind
northwester | a wind from the northwest |
north wind
northerly
norther
boreas | a wind that blows from the north |
| prevailing wind | the predominant wind direction, the prevailing wind is from the southwest |
| solar wind | a stream of protons moving radially from the sun |
south wind
souther
southerly | a wind from the south |
trade wind
trade | steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator, they rode the trade winds going west |
antitrade wind
antitrade | winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics |
west wind
wester | wind that blows from west to east |
wind
air current current of air | 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, the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere |