WINDS

"WINDS" is a plural of: wind.

Date "WINDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Literature

Mining

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WINDS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: WINDS

Abrogation

Countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.

Agitation

Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.

Confutation

Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.

Contempt

Turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds; (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Direction

Through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways; quaquaversum, from the four winds.

Disuse

Throw aside; (relinquish); make away with; (destroy); cast overboard, heave overboard, throw overboard; cast to the dogs, cast to the winds; dismantle; (Render useless).

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late);seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds;

Nonobservance

Discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel; (wipe off).

Prediction

Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,

Rejection

Repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away; send to the right about; disclaim; (deny); discard; (eject), (have done with).

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Space

Adverb: extensively; Adjective: wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Wind

Phrase: "lull'd by soft zephyrs"; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard"; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air"; "while mocking winds are piping loud"; "winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage".

Crosswords: WINDS

All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn't work, so your plane couldn't take off. (L.A. Story; writing credit: Steve Martin.)

Has to wander forever between the winds. (The Searchers; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent)

First this little planet with its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars (Things to Come; writing credit: H.G. Wells)

Oh Zephyr Winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly (Isis; writing credit: Kathleen Barnes; Russell Bates)

It is despots and tryants who run our rivers red with the colors of a hundred trampled flags that unfurl in the winds of liberty, blowing over centuries of deprivation (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Make the warm winds circle round my head just like you do, (You're An Ocean; performing artist: Fastball; writing credit: Tony Scalzo)

Up where the clear winds blow ("Up Where We Belong"; performing artist: Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes)

When the cold winds, rage (I Need You; performing artist: LeAnn Rimes)

Glances over, winds up, and it's bunted, bunted down the third (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Night winds whisper to me (Walkin' After Midnight; performing artist: Patsy Cline)

Four Winds (1972)

The Winds of Fogo (1970)

How the Sacred Fire Heroic Winds Defeat the Fire Lotus Array (1967)

Four Winds Island (1961)

The Winds of Weather (1957)

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Books

• Navigating the Winds of Change (reference)

• The Winds of War (reference)

• Wind of War (Legend of the Five Rings: The Four Winds Saga, Book 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Winds Of Change Magazines Annual College Guide For American Indians (reference)

• Echo Of The Four Winds : Native American United Methodist Newspaper (reference)

• Prairie Winds (reference)

• Winds (reference)

• Winds Of Change Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Desert Winds (reference)

• John Wayne Collection - Vol. 5: Winds of the Wasteland/Lucky Texan (reference)

• Winds of Change (reference)

• Winds Of Everest (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Chamber Music for Winds & Piano (reference)

• David Hykes: The Harmonic Choir, Hearing Solar Winds (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Crabtree & Evelyn Cayman Winds Value Gift Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in Namibia's vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet (300 meters) in height. Credit: NASA.

Golf course on the Kona coast. Palm trees moulded by direction of prevailing trade winds. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The lighthouse as seen from the far end of the parade ground at Fort Jefferson. The configuration of the palm trees is testimony to the force and continuity of the trade winds in this area. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Guess which way the prevailing winds are at South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Normally an oceanographic phenomenon known as upwelling keeps the surface waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean cold and teeming with small pelagics that are fished by purse seiners. Upwelling occurs in this zone when southeasterly trade winds , produced by the South Pacific anti-cyclone, along with other facto rs drive coastal waters out to sea, forcing deep nutrient-rich waters to rise. Credit: Fisheries.

For reasons not completely understood, in some years the anti-cyclone is less powerful than normal. The weaker winds it produces fail to draw cold waters up to the ocean's surface, thus opening the way for warm, nutrient-poor tropical waters. These changes in water temperature and climatic conditions are known as "El Nino". Credit: Fisheries.

Approximately 90 nautical miles from the center of Hurricane Eloise. Winds at 35 knots. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Winds at 40 knots as aircraft approaches storm center of Hurricane Eloise. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

NSSL's second Doppler Weather Radar, 15 miles west of Oklahoma City. Researchers used this radar and the Norman Doppler radar to study thunderstorms. Doppler radar gave better estimates of winds within storms than earlier radars. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

NOAA Fisheries Research Vessel CRIPPLE CREEK, formerly a Bureau of Mines vessel. This picture was taken January 17, 1972 after 100 mph winds with freezing spray lashed Kodiak, Alaska. Over 2 feet of ice built up on the vessel's port side during this storm. This vessel was excessed in 1973. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But if all the world shall observe pretences of one kind, and actions of another; arts used to elude the law, and the trust of prerogative (which is an arbitrary power in some things left in the prince's hand to do good, not harm to the people) employed contrary to the end for which it was given: if the people shall find the ministers and subordinate magistrates chosen suitable to such ends, and favoured, or laid by, proportionably as they promote or oppose them: if they see several experiments made of arbitrary power, and that religion underhand favoured, (tho' publicly proclaimed against) which is readiest to introduce it; and the operators in it supported, as much as may be; and when that cannot be done, yet approved still, and liked the better: if a long train of actions shew the councils all tending that way; how can a man any more hinder himself from being persuaded in his own mind, which way things are going; or from casting about how to save himself, than he could from believing the captain of the ship he was in, was carrying him, and the rest of the company, to Algiers, when he found him always steering that course, though cross winds, leaks in his ship, and want of men and provisions did often force him to turn his course another way for some time, which he steadily returned to again, as soon as the wind, weather, and other circumstances would let him? Sect. (Second Treatise of Government)

Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1937)

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The breath of the cholera was felt in those winds.

At terra at this fateful hour I call upon all heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lighting with its rapid wrath, And the winds with the swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All this I place,By God's Almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness

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Health

For example one NINDS-supported scientist, using animal models of NCL, has found that a large portion of this built-up material is a protein called subunit c. This protein is normally found inside the cell's mitochondria, small structures that produce the energy cells need to do their jobs. Scientists are now working to understand what role this protein may play in NCL, including how this protein winds up in the wrong location and accumulates inside diseased cells. (references)

Business

Sufficient winds exist in the South (Patagonia) of the country. (references)

The drive to minimize cost initially led to the placing of many turbines on high-ground where winds were highest but the visual impact of these turbines was also most pronounced. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

The terrain, location, and prevailing westerly winds make the weather changeable. (references)

Senegal

Well-defined dry and humid seasons result from northeast winter winds and southwest summer winds. (references)

Cuba (09/01)

Climate: Tropical, moderated by trade winds; dry season (November-April); rainy season (May-October). (references)

Travel

Cape Verde

Strong northeast winds blow almost constantly. (references)

Nigeria

The dry season in the north is usually dusty from Saharan winds called the Harmattan. (references)

Nicaragua

The unpaved road that winds from Managua to the northern Atlantic Coast town of Puerto Cabezas is passable only during the dry season (December-April). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "WINDS": adverse winds ♦ antitrade winds ♦ baffling winds ♦ by winds ♦ Cardinal winds ♦ cast to the winds ♦ etesian winds ♦ fling to the winds ♦ friendly winds ♦ from the four winds ♦ ride on the winds ♦ scatter to the winds ♦ seasonal winds ♦ the four winds ♦ throw caution to the winds ♦ throw to the winds ♦ to the four winds ♦ trade winds ♦ variable winds. Additional references.

Beginning with "WINDS": winds-creen.

Ending with "WINDS": sea-winds.

Arabic 

‏عواصف الموجات الصوتية (baffling winds). (various references)

Bulgarian 

четирите посоки на света. (various references)

Chinese 

风 (Up-wind, Wind). (various references)

Czech

hodit opatrnost za hlavu (throw caution to the winds). (various references)

Danish

et system med fortoejning ved enkeltpunktsboeje(SPBM)er et fortoejnings-og lastesystem,der goer det muligt for tankskibe at laste til soes,enten direkte fra et undersoeisk system eller via en platform (the Omnidirectional Attack mooring pattern is arranged to take environmental loads from any attack angle(O to 360o);it is required in areas where maximum winds and waves can arrive from any direction). (various references)

Dutch

het Omnidirectional Attak meersysteem is berekend op wind-en waterkrachten uit elke aanvalshoek(0-360o);het moet worden gebruikt in gebieden waar wind en golven van maximale kracht en hoogte uit elke richting kunnen komen (the Omnidirectional Attack mooring pattern is arranged to take environmental loads from any attack angle(O to 360o);it is required in areas where maximum winds and waves can arrive from any direction). (various references)

French

résistance à la verse (resistance to being beaten down by winds). (various references)

German

wickelt (swaddles). (various references)

Greek 

η διάταξη προσδέσεως,τύπου "OMNIDIRECTIONNEL",χαρακτηρίζεται από μία διαμόρφωση τέτοια,ώστε να είναι σε θέση να αντέξει στις προσβολές,που προέρχο� (the "Omnidirectional Attack" mooring pattern is arranged to take environmental loads from any attack angle(O to 360o);it is required in areas where maximum winds and waves can arrive from any direction), ενάντιοι άνεμοι (adverse winds), επικρατούντες άνεμοι (prevailing winds), εποχιακοί άνεμοι (seasonal winds), ανταλληγείσ άνεμοι (antitrade winds), αντοχή στις ριπές των ανέμων (resistance to being beaten down by winds), θυελλώδεις άνεμοι (gale force winds). (various references)

Hungarian

fúvósok (brass and reed band, reeds). (various references)

Italian

resistenza alle intemperie (resistance to being beaten down by winds), aliseo (trade winds). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

風雲 (elements, situation, state of affairs, winds and clouds), 風に乗る (to ride upon the winds), 反対貿易風 (antitrade winds), 吹き上げ (a fountain, place exposed to winds which blow up from below), 大風 (gale, strong winds), 季節風 (seasonal winds), 上層風 (winds aloft). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおかぜ (gale, strong winds), きせつふう (seasonal winds), ふきあげ (a fountain, place exposed to winds which blow up from below), ふううん (elements, situation, state of affairs, winds and clouds), かぜにのる (to ride upon the winds), かざぐも (elements, situation, state of affairs, winds and clouds), じょうそうふう (winds aloft), はんたいぼうえきふう (antitrade winds). (various references)

Korean 

바람 (Wind, Wishing). (various references)

Manx

lommanyn (raw winds), geayaghyn fannee (raw winds), geayaghyn baardee (prevailing winds), ard-gheayaghyn (prevailing winds). (various references)

Pig Latin

indsway.(various references)

Portuguese

resistência à acama (resistance to being beaten down by winds). (various references)

Romanian

suflãtor (wind instrument). (various references)

Russian 

ветры (cardinal winds), неблагоприятные ветры (baffling winds), запада и т. д. (cardinal winds), переменные (baffling winds), пассаты (trade winds), дующие с севера (cardinal winds). (various references)

Spanish

vientos alisios (trade winds, trades). (various references)

Turkish

meltem (breeze, etesian winds, zephyr), kulak asmamak (fling to the winds), kabul etmemek (cast to the winds, decline, disapprove, disclaim, gainsay, refuse, reject, repudiate, rule out, rule smth. out of order, turn thumbs down on, wave aside), imbat (etesian winds), her yöne (to the four winds), boşvermek (throw to the winds). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "WINDS": windscreen, windscreens, windshield, windshields, windsock, windsocks, windstorm, windstorms, windsurf, windsurfed, windsurfing, windsurfings, windsurfs, windswept. (additional references)

Words ending with "WINDS": crosswinds, enwinds, headwinds, inwinds, outwinds, overwinds, rewinds, tailwinds, unwinds, upwinds, whirlwinds, woodwinds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"WINDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bwindi, dwind, inds, wendt, wendys, wijd, wims, winde, windo, windos, wirds, wrind, wund, Wynde, wynds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dins, wind, wins.

-2 letters: din, dis, ids, ins, sin, win, wis.

-3 letters: id, in, is, si.

+1 letter: disown, diwans, dwines, indows, widens.

+2 letters: disowns, dowsing, endwise, enwinds, inwards, inwinds, rewinds, sinewed, swidden, swindle, swinged, swinked, unwinds, upwinds, winders, windles, windows, windups.

+3 letters: bendwise, cowbinds, dewiness, discrown, disendow, disowned, downiest, downside, downsize, drawings, drowsing, dwindles, indwells, inkwoods, midtowns, misdrawn, outwinds, pinweeds, redwings, rewidens, sandwich, snowbird, swarding, swiddens, swindled, swindler, swindles, swingled, unwisdom, unwished, waddings, weddings, wendigos, wideners, wideness, widgeons, wildings, wildness, windages, windbags, windiest, windigos, windings, windlass, windless, windrows, windsock, windsurf, windways, woodbins, wordings.