noun
- What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
- synonyms: intension
- An idea that is implied or suggested. .
Connotation and Wind
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
- usage: "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
- synonyms: air current, current of air
- A tendency or force that influences events.
- usage: "the winds of change"
- Breath.
- usage: "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
- Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
- usage: "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
- synonyms: malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness
- An indication of potential opportunity.
- usage: "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
- synonyms: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, hint
- A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath.
- synonyms: wind instrument
- A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.
- synonyms: fart, farting, flatus, breaking wind
- The act of winding or twisting.
- usage: "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
verb
- To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
- usage: "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
- Extend in curves and turns.
- usage: "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
- Arrange or or coil around.
- usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
- Catch the scent of; get wind of.
- usage: "The dog nosed out the drugs"
- Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.
- usage: "wind your watch"
- synonyms: wind up
- Form into a wreath.
- synonyms: wreathe
- Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
- usage: "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark.
- (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
- (v.t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (v.t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
- (v.t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (v.t.) To drive hard or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
- (v.i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
- (v.t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
- (v.t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
- (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
- (v.t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; especially, to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
- (v.t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- (v.i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
- (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
- (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
- (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
- (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (v.t.) To turn completely or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
- (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
- (v.t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (v.i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
- (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
- (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs or by an instrument.
- (n.) The dotterel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary