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WindingWind Wind, v. t. [From Wind, moving air, but confused in
sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p.
Wound (wound), R. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged
and mutually involved notes. ``Hunters who wound their
horns.' --Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, .
. . Wind the shrill horn. --Pope.
That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W.
Scott. WindingWind Wind, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Winding.]
1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as,
the hounds winded the game.
3.
(a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a
horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of
breath.
(b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to
be recovered; to breathe.
To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the
wind strikes it on the opposite side. WindingWinding Wind"ing, a. [From Wind to twist.]
Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
--Keble. Winding
Winding Wind"ing, n.
A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the
windings of a road or stream.
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With
ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. --Milton.
Winding
Winding Wind"ing, n.
The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about
anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as
(Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature coil,
the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a
continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a
character that the armature current is divided, a portion of
the current being led around the field-magnet coils.
Meaning of WINDING from wikipedia
- more than one
winding,
insulated electrically from each other. When
there are two or more
windings around a
common magnetic axis, the
windings are said to...
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Nicolas Winding Refn (Danish: [ˈne̝kolɑs ˈve̝nte̝ŋ ˈʁæfn̩]; born 29
September 1970) is a
Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed...
- the
secondary winding. This
varying flux at the
secondary winding induces a
varying electromotive force or
voltage in the
secondary winding. This electromagnetic...
- In mathematics, the
winding number or
winding index of a
closed curve in the
plane around a
given point is an
integer representing the
total number of...
- Look up
winding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Winding is a
common name for an
electromagnetic coil.
Winding may also
refer to:
People with the name...
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Basket winding (or basket-weave
winding or
honeycomb winding or
scatter winding) is a
winding method for
electrical wire in a coil. The
winding pattern...
- the
armature is the
winding (or set of
windings) of an
electric machine which carries alternating current. The
armature windings conduct AC even on DC...
- The
damper winding (also
amortisseur winding) is a squirrel-cage-like
winding on the
rotor of a
typical synchronous electric machine. It is used to dampen...
- An
automatic watch, also
known as a self-
winding watch or
simply an automatic, is a
mechanical watch where the
natural motion of the
wearer provides energy...
- used in
reference to
burial sheets,
mound shroud,
grave clothes,
winding-cloths or
winding-sheets, such as the
Jewish tachrichim or
Muslim kaffan, that the...
