Winding

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something wound about a center or an object: an armature with its wire winding.
  • n. The way in which something is wound.
  • n. One complete turn of something wound: two windings of electrical tape.
  • n. A curve or bend, as of a road.
  • adj. Twisting or turning; sinuous.
  • adj. Spiral.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of wind.
  • n. something wound around something else
  • n. the manner in which something is wound
  • n. one complete turn of something wound
  • n. a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
  • adj. twisting, turning or sinuous
  • adj. spiral or helical
  • v. to turn a boat around in a canal
  • n. the act or process of winding (turning around)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A call by the boatswain's whistle.
  • adj. Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
  • n. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander.
  • n. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any portion of an electric circuit which is coiled.
  • Curving; spiral: as, a winding stair.
  • Full of bends or turns: as, a winding path.
  • Warped; twisted; bent; crooked: as, a winding surface.
  • n. A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander: as, the windings of a road or stream.
  • n. A twist in any surface, so that all its parts do not lie in the same plane; a casting or warping.
  • n. A call by the boatswain's whistle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of winding or twisting
  • adj. of a path e.g.
  • adj. marked by repeated turns and bends
  • Equivalent
    indirect    crooked   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    circuitous    bend    curve    flexure    meander    crooked    twisting    turning    sinuous    devious   
    Verb Stem
    wind   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    binding    blinding    finding    grinding    minding    nonbinding    reminding    unwinding