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# wind

«wind» in Mova's school dictionary: **Air moving across the Earth: "a strong wind"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wind /wind/, winds); verb (wind /waind/, winds, wound, winding); verb (wind /wind/ — make breathless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Air moving across the Earth: "a strong wind". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#m1)

2) Breath: "I got my wind back." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#m2)

3) Gas in the stomach (polite word). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#m3)

4) As a verb (rhymes with "find"), to turn or twist something round and round: "wind the string". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#m4)

5) As a verb (rhymes with "find"), to bend and turn: "The path winds through the woods." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#m5)

6) To turn a key or handle so a clock works: "wind the clock". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science and weather, wind is moving air caused by the Sun heating the Earth unevenly; we measure it with wind vanes and anemometers; wind turbines make electricity (renewable energy). In safety: strong winds can blow down trees; stay inside in a storm. Phrases: wind up, wind down, windy, windmill, wind power, second wind.

### examples

- The wind blew my hat off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x1)
- A wind turbine makes electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x2)
- Wind the string around the stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x3)
- The road winds up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x4)
- The wind is very strong today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x5)
- Kites need wind to fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x6)
- Wind the clock every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x7)
- She got her second wind and ran faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x8)
- Set your sails with the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/#x9)

### note

Two words with the same spelling (homographs): "wind" (moving air) says "wind" like "pinned"; "wind" (turn) rhymes with "find", past "wound". Wind power is renewable.

### In the corpora

- [Elephants have a superb sense of smell and more smell genes than dogs, and lift the trunk to catch scents on the wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/11/)
- [Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/6/)
- [A week or so later, long strings of eggs wound round the weeds in deeper water show that toads have come too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/1/)
- [A stick insect sways like a twig in the wind and drops to the floor stiff as a stick when touched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/2/)
- [In printed copies of the book the tale winds down the page in the shape of a tail, getting smaller.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wind» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wind/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.