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# wings

«wings» in Mova's school dictionary: **the body parts a bird, bat or insect moves to fly** — 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 (plural of wing: a wing, wings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wings are the body parts a bird, bat or insect moves to fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#m1)

2) Wings are the long flat parts sticking out from the sides of an aeroplane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#m2)

3) A wing is a part of a building that sticks out from the main part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#m3)

4) The wings of a stage are the hidden sides where actors wait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#m4)

5) In sports, the wings are the sides of the pitch, and a winger plays there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#m5)

6) To try your wings means to start doing something new on your own for the first time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science, birds, bats and insects have wings, but they are built differently; most birds use feathers, bats have skin stretched over long fingers, and insects have thin wings; some birds like penguins and ostriches cannot fly. In stories and sayings: «take someone under your wing» means to look after them; «spread your wings» means to try new things. Phrases: chicken wings, wait in the wings, on the wing.

### examples

- The bird flapped its wings and flew away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x1)
- Butterflies have colourful wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x2)
- The plane's wings are very long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x3)
- Penguins have wings but cannot fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x4)
- A bat's wings are made of skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x5)
- The hospital has a new children's wing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x6)
- The actors waited in the wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x7)
- The older girl took me under her wing on my first day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x8)
- I want to try my wings.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wings/#x9)

### note

Singular: wing. Insects usually have four wings (flies have two); birds have two. Maths: counting problems like «5 birds have how many wings?» → 5 x 2 = 10.

### In the corpora

- [A dragonfly has 6 legs and 4 wings, like many insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/17/)
- [All birds have two wings and two legs; most have four toes on each foot, but the ostrich has only two.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/12/)
- [A hoverfly has one pair of wings and can hover still in the air, while a wasp has two pairs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/12/)
- [Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/15/)
- [Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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