Synonym: air, bend, breath, breeze, coil, draft, gust, pivot, respiration, roll, spiral, swivel, turn, twist. Antonym: unwind. Similar words: windy, window, wind up, swindle, dwindle, wind down, win, twin. Meaning: [wɪnd ,waɪnd] 
n. 1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure 2. a tendency or force that influences events 3. breath 4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk 5. an indication of potential opportunity 6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath 7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus 8. the act of winding or twisting. v. 1. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course 2. extend in curves and turns 3. wrap or coil around 4. catch the scent of; get wind of 5. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem 6. form into a wreath 7. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
n. 1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure 2. a tendency or force that influences events 3. breath 4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk 5. an indication of potential opportunity 6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath 7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus 8. the act of winding or twisting. v. 1. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course 2. extend in curves and turns 3. wrap or coil around 4. catch the scent of; get wind of 5. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem 6. form into a wreath 7. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help. 1. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. 
2. Straws show which way the wind blows.
3. As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
4. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
5. They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
6. Tall trees catch much wind.
7. A straw shows which way the wind blows.
8. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.
9. A tall tree catches the wind.
10. It's hard sailing when there is no wind.
11. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
12. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
13. Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.
14. Words are but wind.
15. It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
16. The wind had snapped the tree in two.
17. The wind shifted to the north.
18. The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof.
19. There isn't enough wind to fly a kite.
20. The wind swept the leaves away.
21. The wind was increasing to gale force.
22. Glass motioned to him to wind down the window.
23. A stellar wind streams outward from the star.
24. The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
25. The torch flared in the wind.
26. A window slammed shut in the wind.
27. A sudden gust of cold wind made me shiver.
28. Wind up your watch every day.
29. He gauged the wind at over thirty knots.
30. It is as well to know which way the wind blows.