Usually means: Twisting or coiling around something.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. winding: Merriam-Webster
  2. winding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. winding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. winding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. winding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Winding, winding: Wordnik
  7. winding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. winding: Wiktionary
  9. winding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. winding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. winding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. winding: Dictionary.com
  13. winding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Winding (disambiguation), Winding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Winding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. winding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. winding: Rhymezone
  18. Winding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. winding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. winding: FreeDictionary.org
  21. winding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. winding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. winding: Legal dictionary
  2. winding: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winding: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winding: Medical dictionary

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  1. winding: Idioms

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  1. Winding: Urban Dictionary

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  1. winding: Electronics
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  3. Winding: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  gerund of wind
noun:  (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
noun:  (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
adjective:  (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
adjective:  (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
noun:  gerund of wind
noun:  The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
noun:  (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
noun:  (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
noun:  Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
noun:  Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
noun:  (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
noun:  (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
noun:  (obsolete, music) A variation in a tune.
noun:  Something wound around another thing.
noun:  (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
noun:  (lutherie) 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”)
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
noun:  (except dialectal) 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.
adjective:  Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
adjective:  Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
adjective:  Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
adjective:  (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Flexible, pliant.
adjective:  (figurative) Morally crooked; crafty, shifty.
noun:  A surname from Danish.

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