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  • 31Wind — Wind. Gleich allen flüssigen Körpern sucht die unsere Erde überall umgebende Luft stets im Gleichgewicht zu bleiben; wird dieses, sei es durch Kälte, die zusammenzieht, oder durch Wärme, die ausdehnt, gestört, und tritt nun die benachbarte Luft… …

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  • 32wind-up — or wind·up (wīndʹŭp ) n. 1. a. The act of bringing something to an end. b. A concluding part; a conclusion. 2. Baseball. The movements of a pitcher, including the swinging back of the arm and the raising of the forward foot, preparatory to… …

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  • 33wind — [n1] air currents air, blast, blow, breath, breeze, chinook, cyclone, draft, draught, flurry, flutter, gale, gust, mistral, puff, tempest, typhoon, wafting, whiff, whirlwind, whisk, zephyr; concept 524 wind [n2] warning, report babble, clue, cue …

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  • 34Wind — Wind, n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 35Wind-up — n. Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 36Wind [1] — Wind, I. eine im Verhältnisse zur Erdoberfläche fortschreitende, durch Aufhebung des Gleichgewichts der Atmosphäre erregte Bewegung der Luft. Man bezeichnet A) die W e nach der Himmelsgegend, aus welcher sie wehen, theilt zu diesem Zweck den… …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 37WIND — River Systems, Inc. (Business » NASDAQ Symbols) * Wednesday Is Networking Day (Academic & Science » Universities) * Interplanetary Physics Laboratory (Governmental » NASA) * Wind Ip Network Database (Computing » Networking) * Wintersburg… …

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  • 38wind up — (something) to end or finish something. The meeting just wound up, so let s go to lunch now. We should be able to wind the discussion up by 10 o clock …

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  • 39wind — verbs. There are two verbs here. The verb meaning ‘to twist, coil, etc.’ is pronounced wiynd and has the past tense and past participle wound (pronounced wownd). The unconnected verb meaning ‘to exhaust the breath’ is pronounced wind and has the… …

    Modern English usage

  • 40Wind — [Basiswortschatz (Rating 1 1500)] Bsp.: • Es wehte ein starker Wind …

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