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What is the noun for wind?

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wind
  1. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
  2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
  4. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
  5. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
  6. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
  7. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  8. The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
  9. 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".
  10. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  11. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  12. A bird, the dotterel.
  13. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
  14. Synonyms:
      15. breeze, air, current, draught, zephyr, draft, drift, gale, gust, airstream, blast, blow, flurry, chinook, cyclone, flutter, hurricane, mistral, tempest, typhoon, wafting, whiff, whirlwind, whisk, squall, air current, air-current, air currents, current of air, puff, storm, waft, breath, rush, scud, windstorm, flow, tornado, windblast, williwaw, superstorm, eddy, airflow, shower, twister, flurry of air, billow, puff of wind, breath of wind, strong breeze … more
  15. Examples:
      16. “I stretched out my arms, lifted my face up to the sun, and felt the wind blow through me.”
      “The wind was knocked out of him, and he lay on the floor gasping for breath.”
      “It is reputed as a drug which dispels wind from the stomach and counteracts spasmodic disorders.”
winding
  1. something wound around something else
  2. the manner in which something is wound
  3. one complete turn of something wound
  4. (electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer
  5. Synonyms:
      6. bend, turn, twist, convolution, curve, loop, meander, turning, zigzag, anfractuosity, flexuosity, meandering, undulation, oxbow, twirl, gyration, revolution, spiral, circle, cycle, whirl, round, wind, circumvolution, circulation, wheel, gyre, curl, curlicue, roll, circuit, orbit, lap, circumference, circumnavigation, circling, tour, compass, circumscription, rippling, full circle, scroll, coil, rocking, wave, helix, coiling, involution, whorl, volution … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “I followed, with my eye, the winding of the road and saw that it curved close to one of the densest of these clumps and was lost behind it.”
windedness
  1. The state of being winded, the temporary inability to breathe
windiness
  1. The state of being windy (in all meanings)
  2. Synonyms:
      3. verbosity, wordiness, verbiage, prolixity, verboseness, redundancy, diffuseness, garrulity, circumlocution, periphrasis, garrulousness, verbalism, diffusion, logorrhea, wordage, long-windedness, loquacity, loquaciousness, tautology, pleonasm, discursiveness, repetition, circuitousness, expansiveness, volubility, rambling, talkativeness, logorrhoea, gassiness, wittering, copiousness, rhetoric, redundance, gift of the gab, gabbiness, chattiness, multiloquence, effusiveness, mouthiness, convolution, lengthiness, digressiveness, wandering, big mouth, babbling, profuseness, superfluity, perissology, glibness, prating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “So I learned to trust my eyes rather more than the windiness of words.”
      “Actually it wasn't too much colder than Santa Fe, but the extra wetness and windiness made it feel much colder.”
      “The remedies which they use are large clysters, whereby they void store of windiness.”
wind
  1. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. breeze, air, current, draught, zephyr, draft, drift, gale, gust, airstream, blast, blow, flurry, chinook, cyclone, flutter, hurricane, mistral, tempest, typhoon, wafting, whiff, whirlwind, whisk, squall, air current, air-current, air currents, current of air, puff, storm, waft, breath, rush, scud, windstorm, flow, tornado, windblast, williwaw, superstorm, eddy, airflow, shower, twister, flurry of air, billow, puff of wind, breath of wind, strong breeze … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I stretched out my arms, lifted my face up to the sun, and felt the wind blow through me.”
      “The wind was knocked out of him, and he lay on the floor gasping for breath.”
      “It is reputed as a drug which dispels wind from the stomach and counteracts spasmodic disorders.”
windless
  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of windlass
winding
  1. the act or process of winding (turning around)
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bend, turn, twist, convolution, curve, loop, meander, turning, zigzag, anfractuosity, flexuosity, meandering, undulation, oxbow, twirl, gyration, revolution, spiral, circle, cycle, whirl, round, wind, circumvolution, circulation, wheel, gyre, curl, curlicue, roll, circuit, orbit, lap, circumference, circumnavigation, circling, tour, compass, circumscription, rippling, full circle, scroll, coil, rocking, wave, helix, coiling, involution, whorl, volution … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I followed, with my eye, the winding of the road and saw that it curved close to one of the densest of these clumps and was lost behind it.”
winde
  1. Obsolete spelling of wind
  2. Examples:
      3. “Premier Helen Zille and Economic Opportunities Minister Alan Winde will lead a delegation to China to bolster trade and investment between that region and the Western Cape.”
      “Its west wing was added by Captain William Winde, who also designed Buckingham Palace, and the gardens were redesigned by Capability Brown in the 18th century.”
windlessness
  1. Absence of wind.
windy
  1. (colloquial) fart
windinesses
  1. plural of windiness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. verbosities, wordinesses, verbiages, prolixities, verboseness, redundancies, diffusenesses, garrulities, circumlocutions, periphrases, garrulousness, verbalisms, diffusions, logorrheas, wordages, long-windedness, loquacities, loquaciousness, tautologies, pleonasms, discursiveness, repetitions, circuitousness, expansivenesses, volubilities, ramblings, talkativeness, logorrhoea, gassiness, witterings, redundances, rhetorics, copiousnesses, gifts of the gab, gabbiness, chattiness, multiloquence, effusivenesses, mouthiness, convolutions, lengthinesses, digressiveness, wanderings, big mouths, babblings, profusenesses, superfluities, perissologies, glibnesses, pratings … more
windings
  1. plural of winding
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bends, turns, twists, convolutions, curves, loops, meanders, turnings, zigzags, anfractuosities, flexuosities, meanderings, undulations, oxbows, rotations, revolutions, spins, cycles, gyrations, swivels, twirls, whirls, arcs, arches, circles, wheels, winds, circulations, circumvolutions, curvatures, pirouettes, pivots, spirals, angles, crooks, curvings, gyres, inflexions, inflections, rolls, shifts, swings, turnabouts, twistings, bows … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The man followed the wave on horseback for about a mile until he lost sight of it in the windings of the canal.”
      “Gone are the days when the inside of a high-end golf ball included yards of rubber-band windings.”
      “The whole enlivened, and rendered more variegated, and fanciful, by the various windings of the Chester river.”
windes
  1. plural of winde
  2. Examples:
      3. “And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.”
      “The woodnesse of the windes makes rough by raising of the waue.”
windies
  1. plural of windy
winds
  1. plural of wind
  2. Synonyms:
      3. premonition, suspicion, presentiment, feeling, foreboding, presage, omen, sign, portent, hunch, inkling, idea, apprehension, forewarning, intuition, misgiving, anxiety, warning, worry, fear, apprehensiveness, dread, indication, prognostication, admonition, sense, prenotion, vibes, vision, worriment, vibrations, sneaking suspicion, funny feeling, sixth sense, gut feeling, vague feeling, wake-up call, sinking feeling, wind change, handwriting on wall, bad feeling, second sight, feeling in one's bones, feeling in your bones, winds of change … more
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