wing > define

noun

• A movable organ for flying (one of a pair. )
• One of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane.
• A stage area out of sight of the audience.
  • synonyms: offstage, backstage
• A unit of military aircraft.
• The side of military or naval formation.
  • usage: "they attacked the enemy's right flank"
  • synonyms: flank
• A hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side.
• In flight formation. ( a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft)
• A group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function.
  • usage: "they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party"
• The wing of a fowl.
  • usage: "he preferred the drumsticks to the wings"
• A barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud.
  • usage: "in Britain they call a fender a wing"
  • synonyms: fender
• An addition that extends a main building.
  • synonyms: annex, annexe, extension

verb

• Travel through the air; be airborne.
  • usage: "Man cannot fly"
  • synonyms: fly

• (n.) Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, whether by edge-on motion or flapping or rotation; specifically, either of a pair of supporting planes of a flying machine.
• (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
• (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
• (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
• (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
• (v.t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
• (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
• (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
• (n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
• (v.t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
• (v.t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
• (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
• (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
• (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
• (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
• (v.t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
• (v.t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.
• (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
• (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
• (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
• (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
• (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
• (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
• (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
• (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.

• Name Meaning: Glory
• Name Origin: Chinese