Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure:
— Trees bent under the fierce winds.
— When there is no wind, row.

synonyms: air current, current of air.

Roget 274: velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness etc. adj.; rapidity, eagle speed; expedition etc. (activity) 682; pernicity^†; acceleration; haste etc. 684.    spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate etc. adj.; rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight.    lightning, greased lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum [Lat.], quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent.    eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe, squirrel, camel bird, chickaree^†, chipmunk, hackee [U.S.], ostrich, scorcher [Slang].    Mercury, Ariel^†, Camilla^†, Harlequin.    [Measurement of velocity] log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer.    ... show more

Roget 359: life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit.    respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; oxygen, air.    [devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices etc. 662.    lifeblood; Archeus^†; existence etc. 1.    vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification etc. 163; Prometheus; life to come etc. (destiny) 152.    [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.    nourishment, staff of life etc. (food) 298.    genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production) 161.    microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.], archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.].    animal etc. 366; vegetable etc. 367.    artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.    [vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature.    preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662.    ... show more

Dutch: wind
Polish: wiatr

A tendency or force that influences events.

Breath.

Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk:
— That's a lot of wind.

synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, nothingness.

An indication of potential opportunity.

synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, tip.

Polish: cynk

A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath.

synonym: wind instrument.

Dutch: koelte, wind, blaasinstrument
Polish: aerofon, instrument dęty

A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.

synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, flatus.

Roget 349: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation^†, eluvium^†; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent.    gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon^†, simoom; harmattan^†, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise^†, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia^†, chinook, foehn, khamsin^†, norther, vendaval^†, wuther^†.    windiness etc. adj.; ventosity^†; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall.    anemography^†, aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope^†.    sufflation^†, insufflation^†, perflation^†, inflation, afflation^†; blowing, fanning etc. v.; ventilation.    sneezing etc. v.; errhine^†; sternutative^†, sternutatory^†; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.    Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.    air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah^†; branchiae^†, gills, flabellum^†, vertilabrum^†.    whiffle ball.    ... show more

Dutch: prot, een wind laten, een scheet laten, buikwind, flatus, scheet, veest, wind, windje
Polish: bąk

The act of winding or twisting:
— He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind.

synonyms: twist, winding.

Dutch: draai, draaibeweging, gang, toer, winding

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course:
— The river winds through the hills.

synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave.

Roget 279: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve etc. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe^†, wear.    intervert^†; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.    stray, straggle; sidle; diverge etc. 291; tralineate^†; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.    fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle etc. (oscillate) 314; go out of one's way etc. (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.    ... show more

Roget 311: turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go through 180 degrees, go through 360 degrees, pass through 180 degrees, pass through 360 degrees.    circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; put a girdle round about the earth" [M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.    wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist etc. (convolution) 248; make a detour etc. (circuit) 629.    ... show more

Dutch: meanderen

Extend in curves and turns:
— The road winds around the lake.

synonyms: curve, twist.

Dutch: kronkelen

Arrange or or coil around.

synonyms: roll, twine, wrap.

Roget 248: be convoluted etc. adj.; wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate^†; entwine, intwine^†; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop^†, scallop, wring, intort^†; contort; wreathe etc. (cross) 219.    ... show more

Dutch: omwinden

Catch the scent of; get wind of.

synonyms: nose, scent.

Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem:
— Wind your watch.

synonym: wind up.

Form into a wreath.

synonym: wreathe.

Dutch: opwinden

Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.

synonyms: hoist, lift.

Dutch: hijsen, ophijsen, opsjorren