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# windy

«windy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Windy weather has a lot of wind blowing** — 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

adjective (windy, windier, windiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Windy weather has a lot of wind blowing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#m1)

2) A windy place gets a lot of wind, like a hilltop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#m2)

3) A windy road is one that bends a lot (said WINE-dee, from «wind» as in turn). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In weather lessons windy is a weather word along with sunny, rainy, cloudy; windy days are good for kites but dangerous for some activities by the sea. Phrases: «a windy day», «windy weather», «windy city».

### examples

- It's too windy to have a picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x1)
- We flew kites on a windy day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x2)
- The top of the hill is very windy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x3)
- It was windy and the bins blew over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x4)
- Windy weather can make the sea rough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x5)
- Chicago is sometimes called the Windy City. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x6)
- The windy mountain road made me feel sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x7)
- That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windy/#x8)

### note

Two pronunciations: WIN-dee (from wind = moving air) and, less commonly, WINE-dee (from wind = to twist). Spelling change: windier, windiest (y to i). Safety: on very windy days stay away from trees and cliff edges.

### In the corpora

- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [Puddles dry faster on sunny, windy days: the sun gives energy and the wind carries the vapour away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/7/)
- [Weather is what the sky is doing right now: a shower on the way to school, a windy afternoon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/0/)
- [Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.365/)
- [Shall windy words have an end?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.406/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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