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winding
[wahyn-ding]
noun
the act of a person or thing that winds.
a bend, turn, or flexure.
a coiling, folding, or wrapping, as of one thing about another.
something that is wound or coiled, or a single round of it.
Electricity.
a symmetrically laid, electrically conducting current path in any device.
the manner of such coiling.
a series winding.
adjective
bending or turning; sinuous.
spiral, as stairs.
winding
/ ˈɲɪԻɪŋ /
noun
a curving or sinuous course or movement
anything that has been wound or wrapped around something
a particular manner or style in which something has been wound
a curve, bend, or complete turn in wound material, a road, etc
(often plural) devious thoughts or behaviour
the tortuous windings of political argumentation
one or more turns of wire forming a continuous coil through which an electric current can pass, as used in transformers, generators, etc
another name for wind 2
a coil of tubing in certain brass instruments, esp the French horn
adjective
curving; sinuous
a winding road
Other 51Թ Forms
- windingly adverb
- windingness noun
- ˈɾԻ徱Բ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
"It's not just about the money, it's the principle," he explains, cats winding through potted plants as he talks.
At the end the musicians pick up percussion instruments and leave the stage in a slow, winding procession of dance steps, as if marching into the unknown.
James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.
But Thompson’s career is just starting while Press is winding hers down.
The grim procedure of winding down the business took over as passwords and laptops were collected while servers were backed up in case "some future incarnation of the business can be preserved".
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