Wind vs Curl - What's the difference?
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(countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
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, title= Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
(countable, uncountable) The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.
* Shakespeare
news of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip - used with catch often in past tense
(India, and, Japan) One of the five basic elements (see ).
(uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
* (John Dryden)
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".
* Bible, (Ezekiel) xxxvii. 9
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, passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
* (John Milton)
A bird, the dotterel.
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
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To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
(reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
(British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by scent.
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
(lb) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
(lb) To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
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To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
(lb) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path whichwinded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
*:The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
*1969 , (Paul McCartney)
*:The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
* (1591-1674)
*:Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:You have contrivedto wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.
*Government of Tongues
*:little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
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The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
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A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
* 1866 , (Louisa May Alcott), , chapter 7:
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, chapter=17 A curved stroke or shape.
* 1995 , John Curtis, Julian Reade, & Dominique Collon, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum? , page 184:
A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
* 1909 , Harold Horsfall Hilton, The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion [http://books.google.com/books?id=fZ0XAAAAYAAJ], page 38:
(curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
* 2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health , page 54:
(calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
* 1995 , Erich Prisner, Graph dynamics :
(calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted or , that generates this field.
(agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
* 1840 , "Farmers' Department", The Family Magazine , volume 1,
(music, chiefly, lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
(lb) To cause to move in a curve.
*1998 , Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch? , p.70:
*:He picked the ball up about forty yards out on the left wing, left a trail of Arsenal defenders in his wake, and curled the ball round Geoff Barnett as he came right out into the far corner.
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, title= To make into a curl or spiral.
*2004 , Jacquelyn Mitchard, Twelve Times Blessed? , p.249:
*:She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.
(lb) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
*1847 , , ? , Ch.XXXI:
*:It seemed to me that Mr. St. John's under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment.
(lb) To move in curves.
*1977 , (w, Scott O'Dell), Carlota? , p.1:
*:Clouds curled down from the mountains.
*2007 , John Coyne, The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan? , p.97:
*:The ball curled to a stop within six inches of the hole.
To take part in the sport of curling.
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To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
*2008 , Joseph Lee Klapper, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boosting Your Metabolism? , p.119:
*:When curling the weight, bring the barbell up toward the chin, then return it to its starting position. Keep your elbows and upper arms as immobile as possible to isolate the biceps.
To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
*(George Gascoigne) (c.1535-1577)
*:Curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled , frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Thicker than the snaky locks / That curled Megaera.
*(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
*:Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.
(lb) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
Wind is a related term of curl.
As nouns the difference between wind and curl
is that wind is wind; movement of air usually caused by convection or differences of air pressure while curl is a piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.As a verb curl is
(lb) to cause to move in a curve.wind
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ; ultimately probably cognate with (weather).Noun
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- If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
- Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind .
- Come from the four winds , O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
- Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.
Synonyms
* (movement of air) breeze, draft, gale; see also * (flatus) gas (US); see alsoDerived terms
* break wind * close to the wind * crosswind * downwind * fair wind * foul wind * get one's wind back * get the wind up * get wind of * headwind * like the wind * long-winded * pass wind * sail close to the wind * scattered to the four winds * second wind * see which way the wind is blowing * sow the wind and reap the whirlwind * tailwind * the winds * trade wind * take the wind out of someone's sails * three sheets to the wind * throw caution to the wind * throw to the wind * twist in the wind * upwind * whirlwind * willow in the wind * windbag * wind band * wind-blown * windboard * windbound * wind-break, windbreak * windbreaker * wind-breaker * windburn * wind chart * wind-cheater, windcheater * windchill * wind chimes * wind cone, windcone * wind egg * windfall * wind farm * windflaw * wind force * wind-gauge * wind gun * wind instrument * windily * windiness * windjammer * windless * windmill * window * windpipe * wind power * wind rose * wind scale * windscreen * wind shake * windshield * wind sleeve, windsleeve * wind sock, windsock * winds of change * windstorm * windsurf * windsurfer * windsurfing * wind-swept, windswept * wind tunnel * windward * windySee also
* blizzard * breeze * cyclone * gale * gust * hurricane * nor'easter, northeaster * northwester * sou'easter, southeaster * sou'wester, southwester * storm * tempest * tornado * twister * typhoon * zephyrVerb
(en verb)- The boxer was winded during round two.
- I can’t run another step — I’m winded .
- The hounds winded the game.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), . Compare West Frisian (m), Low German (m), Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m). See also the related term (m).Verb
Derived terms
* rewind * unwind * wind down * wind somebody round one's finger * wind up * windable * winder * winding * windlass * wind-upStatistics
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(en noun)curl
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Noun
(en noun)- she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.
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- the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.
- It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball […]
- Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.
- In 2D, when Q is a polygonal domain, the singularities of Type (2) disappear because ?'' is the scalar curl''' of ''u'' and is such that its vectorial ' curl is zero.
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- These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl .
Synonyms
* (lock of curling hair) ringlet * (curved stroke or shape) curlicue, curve, flourish, loop, spiralAntonyms
* (weightlifting exercise) extensionDerived terms
* barbell curl * biceps curl * cable curl * concentration curl * curlicue * curliness * curly * dumbbell curl * hammer curl * high-cable curl * leaf curl * leg curl * machine curl * preacher curl * reverse curl * scalar curl * trunk curl * wrist curl * Zottman curlVerb
(en verb)Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool, passage=Campbell should have scored but missed with a header from four yards at the far post before Taylor-Fletcher came close to adding a second when he curled an effort over the stranded Reina, who should have been punished for a poor clearance.}}