wind

«wind» in Mova's school dictionary: Air moving across the Earth: "a strong wind" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (wind /wind/, winds); verb (wind /waind/, winds, wound, winding); verb (wind /wind/ — make breathless)

meaning for a pupil

1) Air moving across the Earth: "a strong wind". tree →

2) Breath: "I got my wind back." tree →

3) Gas in the stomach (polite word). tree →

4) As a verb (rhymes with "find"), to turn or twist something round and round: "wind the string". tree →

5) As a verb (rhymes with "find"), to bend and turn: "The path winds through the woods." tree →

6) To turn a key or handle so a clock works: "wind the clock". tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and weather, wind is moving air caused by the Sun heating the Earth unevenly; we measure it with wind vanes and anemometers; wind turbines make electricity (renewable energy). In safety: strong winds can blow down trees; stay inside in a storm. Phrases: wind up, wind down, windy, windmill, wind power, second wind.

examples

• The wind blew my hat off. tree →
• A wind turbine makes electricity. tree →
• Wind the string around the stick. tree →
• The road winds up the hill. tree →
• The wind is very strong today. tree →
• Kites need wind to fly. tree →
• Wind the clock every night. tree →
• She got her second wind and ran faster. tree →
• Set your sails with the wind. tree →

note

Two words with the same spelling (homographs): "wind" (moving air) says "wind" like "pinned"; "wind" (turn) rhymes with "find", past "wound". Wind power is renewable.

In the corpora

• Elephants have a superb sense of smell and more smell genes than dogs, and lift the trunk to catch scents on the wind.
• Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them.
• A week or so later, long strings of eggs wound round the weeds in deeper water show that toads have come too.
• A stick insect sways like a twig in the wind and drops to the floor stiff as a stick when touched.
• In printed copies of the book the tale winds down the page in the shape of a tail, getting smaller.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wind» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.