wind
Noun
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is a type of: 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 precipitationsubtypes:
- airstream - a relatively well-defined prevailing wind
- calm, calm air - wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
- air, breeze, gentle wind, zephyr - a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- chinook, chinook wind, snow eater - a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
- harmattan - a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter
- crosswind - wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft
- foehn, fohn - a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps
- khamsin - an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring
- santa ana - a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast
- high wind - a very strong wind
- headwind - wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft
- catabatic wind, katabatic wind - a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air
- tailwind - wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft
- doldrums - a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
- languor - oppressively still air
- east wind, easter, easterly - a wind from the east
- northwest wind, northwester - a wind from the northwest
- sou'wester, southwester - a strong wind from the southwest
- sou'easter, southeaster - a strong wind from the southeast
- gale - a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale
- blast, blow, gust - a strong current of air
- monsoon - a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter
- monsoon - any wind that changes direction with the seasons
- boreas, north wind, norther, northerly - a wind that blows from the north
- prevailing wind - the predominant wind direction
- samiel, simoom, simoon - a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
- south wind, souther, southerly - a wind from the south
- squall - sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation
- thermal - rising current of warm air
- draft, draught - a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- west wind, wester - wind that blows from west to east
substance holonym: air - a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists ofsame as: air current, current of air -
is a type of: influence - the effect of one thing (or person) on another
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is a type of: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction, guidance - something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
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is a type of: instrument, musical instrument - any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or soundssubtypes:
- 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 instrument - a wind instrument with a free reed
- kazoo - a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
- ocarina, sweet potato - egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
- organ, pipe organ - wind 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, pipework - the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- pipe - a tubular wind instrument
- post horn - wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries
- whistle - a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument - any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
has:- bell - the flared opening of a tubular device
- embouchure, mouthpiece - the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly
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is a type of: inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex - an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
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is a type of: rotary motion, rotation - the act of rotating as if on an axis
Verb
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is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphoricallysubtypes: snake - move along a winding pathverb group: wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)subtypes:
- circumvolute - wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail
- spiral - form a spiral
- snake - form a snake-like pattern
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is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes:
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is a type of: smell - inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
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entail: turn - change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sensesubtypes: rewind - wind (up) againsame as: wind up
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same as: wreathe
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