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Adjektiivi

1. (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
2. Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
3. (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
4. Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
5. Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
6. (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
7. Flexible, pliant.
8. (figurative) Morally crooked; crafty, shifty.

Substantiivi

1. Gerund of wind
2. (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing.
3. The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
4. (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
5. (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
6. (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
7. Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
8. Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
9. (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
10. (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
11. (obsolete, music) A variation in a tune.
12. Something wound around another thing.
13. (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
14. (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”).
15. A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
16. (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.