Winding

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
2. isim The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.

   “[W]e savv a Fox run by the Foot of our Mount into an adjacent Thicket. A fevv Minutes after, vve heard a confuſed Noiſe of the opening of Hounds, the vvinding of Horns, and the roaring of Country Squires.”

3. sıfat Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
4. sıfat Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
5. fiil present participle and gerund of wind
6. isim The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.

   “Then there was […] a vast deal of screwing and tightening, and winding and tuning, during which Mrs. Briggs expatiated to those near her on the immense difficulty of playing a guitar, and hinted at the wondrous proficiency of her daughters in that mystic art.”

7. isim A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.

   “[T]here vvill be hurly burly, like as ye ſee in a man vvhen he dieth; vvhat deformity appeareth, hovv he ſtretcheth out all his members, vvhat a vvinding is there, ſo that all his body cometh out of frame?”

8. isim A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.

   “Berenice ſtandeth upon the utmoſt vvinding and nouke of Syrtis, called ſometime the cittie of the above-named Heſperides, according to the vvandering tales of Greece.”

9. isim Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.

   “Is there a Tongue, like Delia’s o’er her cup, / That runs for Ages vvithout vvinding-up?”

10. isim Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
11. isim Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.

    “For that vvhich he hath novv attained vvith the begging of ſome ſmall peeces of ſiluer, a temporall happins, & preſent hearts eaſe, I cannot compaſſe vvith all my carefull vvindings, & running in & out.”

12. isim The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
13. isim A variation in a tune.

    “Among the windings of the violins / And the ariettes / Of cracked cornets / Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins / Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own, / Capricious monotone / That is at least one definite "false note."”

14. isim Something wound around another thing.

    “For knovv by lot from Jove I am the povvr / Of this fair VVood, and live in Oak'n bovvr, / To nurſe the Saplings tall, and curl the grove / VVith ringlets quaint, and vvanton vvindings vvove.”

15. isim A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
16. isim Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
17. isim A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
18. isim Synonym of withe or withy (“a flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding”); also, all the withies used to make or repair a wall, or the process of using withies in this manner.

    “As for the manner of making vvalls, by davvbing vvindings and hurdles vvith mud and clay, also of rearing them othervvhiles vvith unbaked bricke; vvho is ſo ignorant that he knovveth it not?”

19. sıfat Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.

    “[H]e [Satan] vvindes himſelfe into this vvinding Beaſt, diſpoſing the Serpents tongue to ſpeake to the vvoman [Eve] […]”

20. sıfat Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.

    “The thinges that hinder a man vvhich loketh at his marke, to ſhoote ſtreight, be theſe: […] a payre of windinge prickes, and many other thinges mo, which you ſhall marke yourſelfe, and as ye knovv them, ſo learne to amende them.”

21. sıfat Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.

    “In yᵉ Cour aux Thuilleries is a princely fabriq; the winding geometrical stone stayres, with the cupola, I take to be as bold and noble a piece of architecture as any in Europ of the kind.”

22. sıfat Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.

    “I will not heare thee, wife; / The winding laborinth of thy straunge discourse / Will nere haue end.”

23. sıfat Flexible, pliant.
24. sıfat Morally crooked; crafty, shifty.

    “I care not though men call me impudent, / Smooth-tongu'd, audacious, petulant, abhominable, / Forger of vvords and lie, contentious Barretour, / Old, vvinding, bragging, teſty, crafty fox.”

25. fiil present participle and gerund of wind
26. özel isim A surname from Danish.