windy

«windy» in Mova's school dictionary: Windy weather has a lot of wind blowing — 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

adjective (windy, windier, windiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Windy weather has a lot of wind blowing. tree →

2) A windy place gets a lot of wind, like a hilltop. tree →

3) A windy road is one that bends a lot (said WINE-dee, from «wind» as in turn). tree →

sense in the lessons

In weather lessons windy is a weather word along with sunny, rainy, cloudy; windy days are good for kites but dangerous for some activities by the sea. Phrases: «a windy day», «windy weather», «windy city».

examples

• It's too windy to have a picnic. tree →
• We flew kites on a windy day. tree →
• The top of the hill is very windy. tree →
• It was windy and the bins blew over. tree →
• Windy weather can make the sea rough. tree →
• Chicago is sometimes called the Windy City. tree →
• The windy mountain road made me feel sick. tree →
• That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. tree →

note

Two pronunciations: WIN-dee (from wind = moving air) and, less commonly, WINE-dee (from wind = to twist). Spelling change: windier, windiest (y to i). Safety: on very windy days stay away from trees and cliff edges.

In the corpora

• In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.
• Puddles dry faster on sunny, windy days: the sun gives energy and the wind carries the vapour away.
• Weather is what the sky is doing right now: a shower on the way to school, a windy afternoon.
• Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
• Shall windy words have an end?

Trees and pragmatics

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