adj
(of an electromagnetic coil) Wound around air, i.e. lacking a solid core.
adv
(idiomatic, poetic) According to any given circumstances.
n
(fluid dynamics) A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed.
n
A culvert that is open to the air on top.
v
(idiomatic) Alternative form of swim the Tiber [(intransitive) To convert to Catholicism.]
n
(meteorology, American spelling) A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole.
n
(astrophysics) A temporary episode of deep convection in an evolved star, which brings fusion products to the surface of the star and allows them to be detected in the star's spectrum.
n
(idiomatic) Attention to prevailing trends, as of opinion or power.
n
(engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
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(in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
n
Name given to various locations, usually isolated, with the risk of a fatal fall and the possibility of suicide.
n
(physics) A shock wave formed by the fusion of incident and reflected shock waves from an explosion.
n
(skiing) A relatively undemanding slope for novices.
n
A wind that moves over or above an object.
v
(intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
n
(archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
v
(intransitive) To move sideways, especially in a series of S-shaped curves
n
The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
v
(intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
n
(nautical) The swell or heave of the sea (FM 55-501).
v
(transitive, poetic) To buoy up.
n
(rare) The act of buoying up; uplifting.
n
(Britain) Alternative spelling of updraft [an upward current of air, especially a strong one]
n
(UK dialectal) A sudden rising of wind and sea; a storm.
n
(oceanography) The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.
v
(transitive, archaic) To wind upwards.
n
(nautical) A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft.
n
A swirling body of water.
n
A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
n
Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
n
(idiomatic) Forward momentum; a boost in one's prospects for success due to favorable events or circumstances.
adj
Alternative spelling of windblown. [(of a tree) growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.]
adj
(of trees etc) blown out of shape by the prevailing winds
v
Pronunciation spelling of winding.
n
The state of being windy; the state of there being wind
n
A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
n
The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.
n
(automotive, entomology, colloquial) The anecdotal observed decrease in the number of insects splattering across windshields during road trips across the years.
n
(forestry) The breaking of the bole of a tree by the wind.
n
(forestry) The uprooting and/or overthrowing of a tree caused by the wind
adj
(forestry) Uprooted or overthrown by the wind.
n
Alternative form of williwaw (“strong gust of wind”) [(nautical) A strong gust of cold wind.]
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