📖 W — The English dictionary · page 24

wingspan — Everyday, meaning 1: The distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing when they are stretched out, of a bird, bat, insect or aeroplane.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) The distance between someone's fingertips when their arms are stretched out sideways.↗ Example: An albatross has the biggest wingspan of any bird.↗ · The plane's wingspan is 60 metres.↗ · Measure the butterfly's wingspan with a ruler.↗ · Pterosaurs had huge wingspans.↗ · My arm wingspan is about the same as my height.↗ · The eagle spread its wings to show its wingspan.↗

wink — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) To close and open one eye quickly, often to show a joke, a secret or friendliness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Of a light: to flash on and off.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) The act of winking.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) «Not sleep a wink» means not sleep at all; «forty winks» means a short nap.↗ Example: Grandpa gave me a wink and slipped me a sweet.↗ · The lights on the tree winked on and off.↗ · I didn't sleep a wink before the trip.↗ · Dad had forty winks on the sofa.↗ · She winked to show she was only joking.↗ · The emoji with a wink means «just kidding».↗ · And why do thine eyes wink?↗ (Writings JOB.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.↗ (Writings PSA.35.19, JPS 1917)↗

winner — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, team or animal that wins a game, race, competition or prize.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something very successful or popular: this recipe is a winner.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In football (soccer), the winner is the goal that wins the match.↗ Example: The winner of the race gets a gold medal.↗ · Our team was the winner of the quiz.↗ · And the winner is...↗ Class 4B!↗ · She was a gracious winner and thanked everyone.↗ · The winner scored 45 points, ten more than second place.↗ · Your banana bread is a winner!↗ · He scored the winner in the last minute.↗ · Each prize winner received a book token.↗ · Just before the run and leap Iktomi put in: “Let the winner have the deer to eat!”↗

winning — Everyday, meaning 1: Being the one who wins or makes someone win.↗ e.g. "the winning team", "the winning goal".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The -ing form of "win".↗ e.g. "We are winning!"↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Pleasant and charming.↗ e.g. "a winning smile".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Winnings (plural) are money won in a game or competition.↗ Example: Our team scored the winning goal.↗ · Which team is winning?↗ · She has a winning smile.↗ · We are on a winning streak of five games.↗ · Winning is fun, but playing fair matters more.↗ · He shared his winnings with his sister.↗ · The winning number was 17.↗ · He gave up now all hopes of ever winning the Princess.↗

winnow — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away and the good grain falls.↗ Example: The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.↗ (Prophets ISA.30.24, JPS 1917)↗

winnowing — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The act of tossing grain in the wind to blow the husks away.↗ Example: O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.10, JPS 1917)↗

winter — Everyday, meaning 1: The coldest season of the year, between autumn (fall) and spring.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a verb, to spend the winter somewhere.↗ e.g. "Birds winter in the south."↗ Example: Winter is the coldest season.↗ · It snows here in winter.↗ · Bears hibernate in winter.↗ · In Australia, winter is in June, July and August.↗ · Wear warm clothes in winter.↗ · The days are short in winter.↗ · Christmas is in winter in Canada, but in summer in New Zealand.↗ · Some birds fly south for the winter.↗ · A hard winter followed this summer.↗ · While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'↗ (Torah GEN.8.22, JPS 1917)↗ · For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; (Writings SNG.2.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.↗ (Writings PSA.74.17, JPS 1917)↗ · The sluggard will not plow when winter setteth in; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.↗ (Writings PRO.20.4, JPS 1917)↗

wintry — Everyday, meaning 1: Typical of winter: cold, snowy, icy or frosty.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (weather forecasts, UK) "Wintry showers" are showers of rain mixed with sleet or snow.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of a smile or a manner) Cold and unfriendly.↗ Example: The forecast says there will be wintry showers tomorrow.↗ · It was a wintry morning, and the car was covered in frost.↗ · We painted a wintry scene with snowy trees.↗ · Take care on the wintry roads.↗ · The wind felt wintry even though it was only October.↗ · She gave him a wintry smile and walked away.↗ · One very cold wintry day, as they talked, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and blew on them.↗

wipe — Everyday, meaning 1: To wipe something means to rub it with a cloth, tissue or your hand to clean or dry it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To wipe something away or off means to remove it by rubbing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To wipe out means to destroy completely.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A wipe is a small damp cloth used for cleaning.↗ Example: Wipe your feet on the mat before you come in.↗ · Please wipe the table after lunch.↗ · She wiped away her tears.↗ · Use a tissue to wipe your nose.↗ · Wipe up the spilt water so nobody slips.↗ · The teacher wiped the board clean.↗ · A huge wave wiped out the sandcastle.↗ · We used baby wipes to clean our sticky hands.↗ · And he wiped away a tear.↗ · Wounds and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.↗ (Writings PRO.6.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the wards thereof.↗ (Writings NEH.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.↗ (Prophets 2KI.21.13, JPS 1917)↗

wiper — Everyday, meaning 1: A wiper (windscreen wiper, windshield wiper in the US) is a long arm with a rubber blade that moves back and forth to clear rain from a car's front window.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wiper is anything used for wiping, like a cloth or wipe.↗ Example: Dad turned on the wipers when it started to pour.↗ · The wipers squeaked across the glass.↗ · The wiper blade was worn and left streaks.↗ · In the US they say windshield wipers.↗ · I fell asleep listening to the wipers go swish, swish.↗ · The car failed its check because one wiper was broken.↗ · Someone tucked a leaflet under the wiper.↗

wire — Everyday, meaning 1: A wire is a long thin piece of metal that can bend.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An electric wire carries electricity, often inside a plastic cover.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To wire something is to put in wires for electricity.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Wired» in speech can mean very excited and awake.↗ Example: She has 60 cm of wire.↗ · He cut the wire into 5 equal pieces.↗ · A square is made from 40 cm of wire.↗ How long is each side?↗ · Each fence needs 20 meters of wire.↗ · Connect the bulb to the battery with two wires.↗ · The wire is covered in plastic to keep us safe.↗ · The cows stay inside the wire fence.↗ · The race went right down to the wire.↗ · Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging, and musicians played on them with fiddle bows and made lovely music.↗

wireless — Everyday, meaning 1: Wireless means working without wires, using radio waves, like wireless internet (Wi-Fi), wireless headphones or wireless charging.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned UK) A wireless is a radio set.↗ Example: Our school has a wireless network in every classroom.↗ · My wireless headphones need charging.↗ · In the war, Grandad's family heard the news on the wireless.↗ · A wireless mouse uses a tiny radio signal.↗ · Wireless charging works by putting the phone on a pad.↗ · Turn off the wireless if you don't need it.↗

wisdom — Everyday, meaning 1: Wisdom is the ability to make good, sensible decisions and judgments, using knowledge and experience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wisdom is the knowledge and good advice that people gather over time: «old wisdom», «the wisdom of our grandparents».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Wisdom teeth» are the last back teeth, which grow in late teens or adulthood.↗ Example: Grandma's words of wisdom helped me.↗ · The owl is a symbol of wisdom.↗ · It takes wisdom to know when to stay quiet.↗ · Fables teach wisdom through stories.↗ · Dad had his wisdom teeth out.↗ · Knowledge is knowing facts; wisdom is using them well.↗ · The king was famous for his wisdom.↗ · And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair.↗ (Torah EXO.35.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.↗ (Torah EXO.35.31, JPS 1917)↗ · and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, (Torah EXO.31.3, JPS 1917)↗ · They die, and that without wisdom.'↗ (Writings JOB.4.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?↗ (Writings JOB.15.8, JPS 1917)↗ · But wisdom, where shall it be found?↗ (Writings JOB.28.12, JPS 1917)↗

wise — Everyday, meaning 1: Wise means having good sense and making good choices because of knowledge and experience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wise decision or action is a sensible one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Wise to» (informal) means knowing about a trick.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A person who is wise about something knows a lot about it from experience, such as a horse-harness expert who is bridle-wise.↗ Example: The wise old owl gave good advice.↗ · It was wise to bring an umbrella.↗ · Grandma is very wise.↗ · Making a wise choice takes thinking.↗ · It is not wise to swim alone.↗ · The king asked his wisest friend for help.↗ · Learn from wise people's mistakes.↗ · He took the toy back and nobody was any the wiser.↗ · The wise woman nodded her head.↗ · If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.↗ (Torah DEU.32.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded: (Torah EXO.35.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.41.33, JPS 1917)↗ · These also are sayings of the wise.↗ (Writings PRO.24.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Where are they, then, thy wise men?↗ (Prophets ISA.19.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.↗ (Writings PRO.8.33, JPS 1917)↗

wisely — Everyday, meaning 1: Wisely means in a wise, sensible way, using good judgement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Wisely» can also comment on a whole action, saying it was a good choice: «Wisely, she wore a helmet.».↗ Example: Spend your pocket money wisely.↗ · Use your time wisely during the test.↗ · Wisely, he stayed away from the deep water.↗ · The old owl nodded wisely.↗ · She chose her words wisely so she would not hurt anyone.↗ · We wisely packed raincoats, and it did rain.↗ · Think before you act, and act wisely.↗ · The king ruled the land wisely and fairly.↗ · The Prince and Princess rule the land well and wisely.↗ · He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall escape.↗ (Writings PRO.28.26, JPS 1917)↗ · The king's favour is toward a servant that dealeth wisely; but his wrath striketh him that dealeth shamefully.↗ (Writings PRO.14.35, JPS 1917)↗ · A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that dealeth shamefully, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.↗ (Writings PRO.17.2, JPS 1917)↗

wish — Everyday, meaning 1: To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not.↗ A wish is that hope.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In stories, a wish is a request that is made true by magic.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To wish someone something is to say you hope they have it.↗ e.g. I wish you a happy birthday.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Best wishes are kind words at the end of a letter or card.↗ Example: The genie gave her 3 wishes.↗ · He wishes to buy a game for $45.↗ · She wished for 10 more stickers.↗ · They each made 2 wishes.↗ · Close your eyes and make a wish.↗ · I wish it would stop raining.↗ · We wish you a happy holiday.↗ · Best wishes from all of us.↗ · You can sit here if you wish.↗ · I wish I had learnt it.”↗ · ') I wish to express here oiy thanks to J. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · But I wish to call attention to a few points which may suggest a solution or at least guide further investigation.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?↗ (Writings JOB.37.20, JPS 1917)↗