Broken wind () The heaves. |
Thick wind () A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. |
Wave (v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave (v. i.) To play loosely |
Wave (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave (v. i.) To fluctuate |
Wave (v. t.) To move one way and the other |
Wave (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface |
Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating |
Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand |
Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest |
Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound |
Wave (v. i.) Water |
Wave (v. i.) Unevenness |
Wave (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion |
Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy |
Wave (n.) Woe. |
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. |
overshoot wave-off go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
wind winding twist | the act of winding or twisting, he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind |
wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
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 |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
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 |
waveguide wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
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 |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
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) |
wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave permanent perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
wave theory undulatory theory wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
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 |
Schrodinger equation Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
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 |
wave waving wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
gravity wave gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
standing wave stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
traveling wave travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
air wave | a sound wave that is transmitted via air |
wave form waveform wave shape | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time |
shock wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
swell crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun |
tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide |
tidal wave | an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon, a tidal wave of nausea, the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave, a tidal wave of crime |