What is the meaning of wind?

noun

• Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
  • usage: "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
  • synonyms: air current, current of air
• A tendency or force that influences events.
  • usage: "the winds of change"
• Breath.
  • usage: "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
• Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
  • usage: "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
  • synonyms: malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness
• An indication of potential opportunity.
  • usage: "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
  • synonyms: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, hint
• A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath.
  • synonyms: wind instrument
• A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.
  • synonyms: fart, farting, flatus, breaking wind
• The act of winding or twisting.
  • usage: "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
  • synonyms: winding, twist

verb

• To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
  • usage: "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
  • synonyms: weave, thread, meander, wander
• Extend in curves and turns.
  • usage: "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
  • synonyms: twist, curve
• Arrange or or coil around.
  • usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
  • synonyms: wrap, roll, twine
• Catch the scent of; get wind of.
  • usage: "The dog nosed out the drugs"
  • synonyms: scent, nose
• Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.
  • usage: "wind your watch"
  • synonyms: wind up
• Form into a wreath.
  • synonyms: wreathe
• Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
  • usage: "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
  • synonyms: hoist, lift