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Definition: Wings |
WingsNoun1. A means of flight or ascent; "necessity lends wings to inspiration". 2. Stylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you have wings, foretells that you will experience grave fears for the safety of some one gone on a long journey away from you. To see the wings of fowls or birds, denotes that you will finally overcome adversity and rise to wealthy degrees and honor. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | The offstage space at the side of the acting area. Source: European Union. (references) |
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See:
- Wings (movie), a 1927 movie about fighter pilots in World War I
- Wings (band), Paul McCartney's 1970s band
- Wings (novel) by Danielle Steel
- Wings (TV show), which ran on NBC from 1990 to 1997
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Wings was a pop-rock band led by Paul McCartney, formed after the dissolution of the Beatles.McCartney's first post-Beatles albums, McCartney (1970) and Ram (1971) were essentially solo projects recorded by Paul and wife Linda McCartney. Later in 1971, McCartney hired several studio musicians for his third solo project (Notably ex-Moody Blues guitarist and singer Denny Laine. The result was Wild Life, the first McCartney project to use the "Wings" name. (The band name is said to have come to McCartney as he was praying in the hospital while Linda was giving birth.) In early 1973 McCartney repeated this pattern, adding ex-Spooky Tooth guitarist Henry McCullough and re-christened the band "Paul McCartney and Wings" for the album Red Rose Speedway which yielded the first Wings hit, the romantic ballad "My Love".
Wings was ostensibly a true band, and in fact several members beyond McCartney contributed songs and occasional vocals, but McCartney was clearly the group's leader and star. Following the release of Speedway McCartney brought the band to Ginger Baker's recording studio in Nigeria to record what turned out to be their breakthrough album, Band on the Run. Band went to number 1 and spawned a half-dozen hit singles including the title track, a suite of movements recalling late Beatles albums, the rockers "Jet" and "Helen Wheels", and the acoustic ballad "Bluebird".
Band on the Run was followed by similarly successful albums Venus and Mars (1975) and Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976), both of which also took top chart positions. Also during this period Wings embarked on a hugely successful and theatrical world tour, documented in the triple-live LP set Wings Over America.
After a year's break from recording (with the exception of the odd, unpromoted release of Thrillington, an orchestral re-make of Paul and Linda's Ram album), McCartney released the album London Town in 1978. Though still released as a Wings album, the band was at that point reduced to Paul, Linda, and long-time member Laine along with a host of studio players. The album was a commercial success, reaching number 2 on the Pop Albums chart, but featured a markedly softer-rock, synth-based sound and yielded only minor singles hits in "With a Little Luck" and "Girlfriend". The follow-up album, Back to the Egg, was a critical and commercial failure and was the last McCartney project released under the Wings moniker, as McCartney would return to solo billing on future recordings.
During its heyday, Wings featured numerous personnel changes. In addition to core members Paul, Linda, and Denny Laine, the band included at one time or another Joe English, Jimmy McCulloch (formerly of Stone the Crows), Henry McCullough, Denny Seiwell, and Geoff Britton.
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Wings is a 1927 movie about fighter pilots during World War I (Charles Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen), who vie for the same girl (Clara Bow). The film was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production", in 1927. It was also the only film to ever win the Academy Award for Engineering Effects. The film was written by John Monk Saunders (story) and Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and directed by William A. Wellman.The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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There have been at least two television series with this title.
Wings was a TV series that ran on NBC from 1990 to 1997. Starred Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett. The show took place at Tom Nevers Field, an airport on Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the brothers operated Sandpiper Airlines. Other regulars include Crystal Bernard, David Schramm, Rebecca Schull, Thomas Haden Church and Tony Shalhoub.
External Link: Internet Movie Database: "Wings" (1990)
Wings was a drama series that ran on BBC television from 1976 to 1977. It starred Tim Woodward as Alan Farmer, a young working-class fighter pilot in World War I. Nicholas Jones played his teacher and mentor, Captain Triggers, and Michael Cochrane played his upper-class friend, Charles Gaylion, who began a relationship with Farmer's girlfriend while Farmer was believed dead, shot down over France.
The series was written by Barry Thomas. Twenty-five episodes were made in all.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WINGS | English | Warrant into government securities | Finance |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Adverb: actively; Adjective: with life and spirit, with might and main;with haste; with wings; full tilt, in mediis rebus. |
Aid | Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to. |
Cleanness | Lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings |
Hindrance | Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck. |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Inutility | Render useless; Adjective: dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame; (injure); spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear. |
Prohibition | Keep in, keep within bounds; restrain; cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns. |
Slowness | Retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground. |
Adverb: slowly; Adjective: leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis. | |
Success | Come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success. |
Velocity | Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin') Yeah, and if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass when it hopped (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) I'm givin' out wings! (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) Then we will have to give you wings. (Ever After; writing credit: Susannah Grant, Andy Tennant and Rick Parks.) They all want wings. (City of Angels; writing credit: Wim Wenders; Peter Handke) | |
Lyrics | For you are the wind beneath my wings, (Wind beneath my wings; performing artist: BETTE MIDLER) As she's spreading her wings (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC) And a how high can you fly with broken wings (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith) You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings (Heat of the Moment; performing artist: Asia) Like a nervous magician waiting in the wings (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) | |
Clever | Would a fly without wings be called a walk? (references; author: unknown) Christianity is not a crutch. It's a pair of wings. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | On the Wings of the Monarch (2001) Wings of Fire (1967) Wild Wings (1966) Wings of Mystery (1963) The Wings of Eagles (1957) | |
Song Titles | Broken Wings (performing artist: Mr. Mister) | |
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 | Amongst the Anopheles mosquitoes the venation of their wings remains constant, while the scale patterns undergo variation between Groups 1, 2, 3, and 4. Anopheles gambiae is the world's most important vector for malarial parasites. Credit: CDC. |  | B-17 used for aerial photography following WWII This was the last operational B-17- dubbed "Old Rotten Wings" by aircraft crew Flown by Coast Guard crew with C&GS navigator and cameraman. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Rear Admiral Leo O. Colbert pinning wings on daughter Mary Lou Colbert became member of Army Women's Ferry Command. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cormorants drying their wings on old steamboat landing piles. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve. A young Willet seems to be all legs and no wings. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Bobwhite quail on Project Wings site in Georgia. Project implemented by NRCS, RC&D, and Georgia Power Company. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Project Wings foodplots of wheat under Georgia Power Company transmission lines. Project implemented with the assistance of NRCS, RC&D, and Georgia Power. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Heron lands on top of bush with wings spread along the John Day River. Credit: John Craig. |
 | Stands by his Curtiss pusher biplane, just before taking off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day he landed on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane had alighted on a warship. Pennsylvania was then at anchor in San Francisco Bay, California. Note the light emergency floats under the plane's lower wings and Ely's flying attire, including rubber inner tubes worn around his shoulders as a life preserver. The hooks on the bottom of the plane's undercarriage were used to catch lines placed across the ship's landing platform in order to bring the aircraft to a stop. Credit: NAVY. |  | Scene on the flight deck, looking aft from the carrier's island during her shakedown cruise, 20 March 1943. Planes parked on deck are F6F-3 fighters (in foreground, with wings folded) and SBD-4 scout bombers. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Chicken wings" by G G Commentary: "Deep fried wings." | "Tattered Wings" by Kris Kelley Commentary: "An aged yellow butterfly drinking from pink flowers." |
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 | Pigeon flapping its wings. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Colley Cibber | Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. |
George Eliot | Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. |
George Macdonald | Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. |
Jean de La Fontaine | On the wings of Time grief flies away. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. |
Lord Byron | Friendship is Love without his wings! |
Muhammad Ali | The man who has no imagination has no wings. |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | His imagination resembles the wings of an ostrich. |
W. Blake | No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A dusky tumult would flap its wings from one house to another |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had quite ingenuously spread his wings, and taken flight |
Imitation of Horace | John Dryden | I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A big owl shrieked as it went overhead, and the firelight showed its white underside and the spread of its wings. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The abdomen under the wings of the butterfly stir represents the larva |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Its long, narrow wings are designed for speed and long-distance travel. (references) | |
Business | With regarding to industrial sharing, AEROSPATIALE MATRA manufactures the ATR wings and is responsible for the final assembly line, while ALIENA AEROSPAZIO produces the fuselage, tail and associated systems. (references) | |
Economic History | El Salvador | Divisions between "orthodox" and "reformist" wings of the FMLN crippled the party in the 1999 elections. (references) |
Sweden | But don't overlook the Old Economy - Saab just announced that it will build the wings for the super-jumbo Airbus. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Chicken meat was the star performer as Hong Kong consumers continue to enjoy U.S. chicken wings, feet, franks and leg quarters. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uganda | Women have segregated wings with female staff in most, but not all, prisons. (references) |
Uganda | Severe overcrowding also is a problem at juvenile detention facilities and in women's wings. (references) | |
Cameroon | They are kept in elite wings of certain prisons, where they enjoy relatively lenient treatment. (references) | |
Minorities | Zimbabwe | During the 1960's and 1970's, elements of the white minority rebelled against British rule and established and maintained a racially discriminatory apartheid regime, which was dismantled in 1980 only after insurgencies by the armed wings of ZANU and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), and economic sanctions by the international community. (references) |
Political Economy | Ireland | As of July 2001, the paramilitary wings of the parties signatory to the Agreement, have maintained their cease-fires. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | There is good cause to presume that the two wings, the only parts as yet commenced, will be prepared for that purpose at the next session. |
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| "Wings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Wings" is used about 2,352 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.83% | 2,348 | 3,788 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.13% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,352 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wings" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wings | Last name | 130 | 59,100 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "wings": beat of wings ♦ beating of wings ♦ clip one's wings ♦ clip smb.'s wings ♦ clip the wings ♦ clip the wings of ♦ flap its wings ♦ flat its wings ♦ flutter its wings ♦ fly on the wings of the wind ♦ give wings to ♦ in the wings ♦ lend wings ♦ lend wings to ♦ main wings ♦ make wings ♦ on the wings of ♦ on the wings of the wind ♦ outspread wings ♦ pair of wings ♦ quiver its wings ♦ singe one's wings ♦ superior wings ♦ the bird wings to its nest ♦ thrash its wings ♦ under the wings of ♦ wait in the wings ♦ water wings ♦ with clipped wings ♦ with outspread wings. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wings": wings-eleven, wings-level, wings-open. | |
Ending with "wings": fore-wings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wings | 1,458 | chicken wings recipe | 136 |
wings west | 1,135 | love lyrics wings | 135 |
detroit red wings | 1,109 | hot wings recipe | 132 |
angel wings | 892 | wings west body kit | 128 |
flying without wings | 752 | angel wings picture | 125 |
red wings | 643 | wings of eagle | 118 |
buffalo wild wings | 500 | flying ruben studdard wings without | 117 |
flying lyrics wings without | 444 | on eagle wings | 113 |
wind beneath my wings | 378 | spread your wings | 105 |
buffalo wings | 337 | german wings | 104 |
rochester red wings | 319 | car wings | 103 |
fly with the wings of love | 308 | flying lyrics ruben studdard wings without | 102 |
chicken wings | 296 | wings spoiler | 86 |
angel wings tattoo | 252 | broken wings | 85 |
fairy wings | 241 | wild wings | 82 |
beneath lyrics wind wings | 210 | pilot wings | 82 |
buffalo wings recipe | 186 | pensacola wings of gold | 81 |
tattoo wings | 166 | the wings of the dove | 80 |
hot wings | 161 | wings things | 76 |
wings of love | 143 | dragon wings | 75 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prapaskenë (background, wing). (various references) | |
Arabic | أجنحة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кулиси, емблема на летец. (various references) | |
Chinese | 翼 (Wing). (various references) | |
Czech | kulisy (scene, scenery). (various references) | |
Danish | warrant til statspapirer (warrant into government securities). (various references) | |
Dutch | collapsus aloe nasi (alar aspiration, aspiration of the wings of the nose). (various references) | |
Finnish | siivittää (lend wings to), siivet levällään (with widespread wings), siipirikko (with a broken wing, with clipped wings), siipiensä suojaan (under one's wings). (various references) | |
French | coulisses. (various references) | |
German | Flügel (blade, casement, door, grand piano, leaf, nostril, piano, remand wing, sail, side, sidepiece, vane, wing), Fittiche. (various references) | |
Greek | παρασκήνια (backstage, lobby). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כנפי טיס (pilot's insignia). (various references) | |
Hungarian | színfalak (slips). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggarudai (give wings to). (various references) | |
Italian | wings. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 羽翼 (assistance), 羽交い (pinion), 翼 , ウィジャ板 (blinker, ouija board, virus, whiskey, whisky, wink, winker, Wisconsin, wit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うよく (assistance, right-wing), つばさ, ウィングス , はがい (pinion). (various references) | |
Korean | 날개 (Wing). (various references) | |
Manx | skianyn snauee (swimming wings), ny binn (the wings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ser batizado, batismo (baptism, christening). (various references) | |
Romanian | pasãrea zboarã la cuibul ei (the bird wings to its nest), bate din aripi (flap its wings, flutter). (various references) | |
Russian | крылья. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | znak (denotement, mark, marker, omen, pledge, semblance, sign, signal, symbol, symptom, telltale, token), leva i desna strana pozornice. (various references) | |
Spanish | certificado para la compra de pagares del Tesoro (warrant into government securities), bastidores (backstage), bastidor (body, chassis, flat, frame, scope, set, take, trestle). (various references) | |
Swedish | kulisser (scenes). (various references) | |
Turkish | pilotluk rozeti, kulis (backstage, greenroom, lobby, offstage), kanatlar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | за кулісами (backstage, behind the scenes, in the wings, offstage). (various references) | |
Welsh | adeiniol (relating to wings). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 13, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ierousalhm ierousalhm h apokteinousa touV profhtaV kai liqobolousa touV apestalmenouV proV authn posakiV hqelhsa episunaxai ta tekna sou on tropon orniV thn eauthV nossian upo taV pterugaV kai ouk hqelhsate |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hierusalem Hierusalem quae occidis prophetas et lapidas eos qui mittuntur ad te quotiens volui congregare filios tuos quemadmodum avis nidum suum sub pinnis et noluisti |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eala hierusalem hierusalem: þu ðe þa witegan of slyhst: and hænst: þa ðe to þe asende synt. hu oft ic wolde þine bearn gegaderian swa se fugel deð his nest under his fiðerum and þu noldest; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that sleest profetis, and stonest hem that ben sent to thee, hou ofte wolde Y gadre togider thi sones, as a brid gaderith his nest vndur fethris, and thou woldist not. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | O Ierusalem Ierusalem which kyllest prophetes and stonest them that are sent to ye: how often wolde I have gadered thy childre to gedder as the hen gathereth her nest vnder her wynges but ye wolde not. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee; how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not! |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not! |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 13, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | O Jerusalem, Jerusalem nga nagapatay sa mga profeta ug nagabato sa mga sinugo diha kanimo! Sa makadaghan gipangandoy ko ang pagtigum unta sa imong mga anak, maingon sa himungaan nga nagatigum sa iyang mga piso ilalum sa iyang mga pako, apan nagdumili ikaw! |
| Croatian | "Jeruzaleme, Jeruzaleme, koji ubijaš proroke i kamenuješ one što su tebi poslani! Koliko li puta htjedoh skupiti djecu tvoju kao kvoèka piliæe pod krila i ne htjedoste! |
| Danish | Jerusalem! Jerusalem! som ihjelslår Profeterne og stener dem, som ere sendte til dig! hvor ofte vilde jeg samle dine Børn, ligesom en Høne samler sine Kyllinger under Vingerne! Og I vilde ikke. |
| Dutch | Jeruzalem, Jeruzalem! gij, die de profeten doodt, en stenigt, die tot u gezonden zijn, hoe menigmaal heb Ik uw kinderen willen bijeenvergaderen, gelijkerwijs een hen haar kiekens onder de vleugelen vergadert; en gijlieden hebt niet gewild? |
| Finnish | Jerusalem, Jerusalem, sinä, joka tapat profeetat ja kivität ne, jotka ovat sinun tykösi lähetetyt, kuinka usein minä olenkaan tahtonut koota sinun lapsesi, niinkuin kana kokoaa poikansa siipiensä alle! Mutta te ette ole tahtoneet. |
| French | Jérusalem, Jérusalem, qui tues les prophètes et qui lapides ceux qui te sont envoyés, combien de fois ai-je voulu rassembler tes enfants, comme une poule rassemble sa couvée sous ses ailes, et vous ne l`avez pas voulu! |
| German | Jerusalem, Jerusalem, die du tötest die Propheten und steinigest, die zu dir gesandt werden, wie oft habe ich wollen deine Kinder versammeln, wie eine Henne ihr Nest unter ihre Flügel, und ihr habt nicht gewollt! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yerusalem, Yerusalem! Nabi-nabi kaubunuh! Para utusan Allah kaulempari batu sampai mati! Sudah berapa kali Aku ingin merangkul semua pendudukmu seperti induk ayam melindungi anak-anaknya di bawah sayapnya, tetapi kau tidak mau! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hai Yeruzalem, Yeruzalem, yang membunuh nabi-nabi, dan yang merajam segala orang yang disuruhkan kepadamu! Berapa banyak kali sudah Aku berkehendak menghimpunkan anak-anakmu, seperti seekor ibu ayam menghimpunkan anak-anaknya di bawah sayapnya, tetapi tiada kamu mau. |
| Italian | Gerusalemme, Gerusalemme, che uccidi i profeti e lapidi coloro che sono mandati a te, quante volte ho voluto raccogliere i tuoi figli come una gallina la sua covata sotto le ali e voi non avete voluto! |
| Manx Gaelic | O Yerusalem, Yerusalem, ta cur dy baase ny phadeyryn, as dyn glaghey adsyn t'er nyn goyrt er chaghteraght hood: cre cha mennick as va mish aggindagh v'er hagIym dty chloan cooidjagh, myr ta kiark clussaghey e aalagh fo my skianyn, agh cha bailliu shen! |
| Maori | E Hiruharama, e Hiruharama, e whakamate nei i nga poropiti, e aki nei ki te kamaka i te hunga e tonoa ana ki a koe; ano te tini o aku meatanga kia whakaminea au tamariki, kia peratia me te heihei e whakamine nei i ana pi ki raro ki ona parirau, a kihai koutou i pai! |
| Norwegian | Jerusalem! Jerusalem! du som slår ihjel profetene og stener dem som er sendt til dig! hvor ofte jeg vilde samle dine barn, likesom en høne samler sine kyllinger under sine vinger! Og I vilde ikke. |
| Portuguese | Jerusalém, Jerusalém, que matas os profetas, e apedrejas os que a ti são enviados! Quantas vezes quis eu ajuntar os teus filhos, como a galinha ajunta a sua ninhada debaixo das asas, e não quiseste! |
| Rumanian | Ierusalime, Ierusalime, care omori pe prooroci wi ucizi cu pietre pe cei trimewi la tine; de ckte ori am vrut sq strkng pe fiii tqi, cum kwi strknge gqina puii supt aripi, wi n`ayi vrut! |
| Shuar | `¡Jerusarénnumiatiram, Yúsnan etserin Máiniaitrume; tura Yus akatar akupturmakmania nusha kayajai tukurum Máiniaitrume! Tuma ain atash ni shiamprin etektana Núnisnak Wisha weaktasan wakerimjiarme, Túrasha nakitramarme. |
| Spanish | ¡Jerusalén, Jerusalén, que matas a los profetas y apedreas a los que te son enviados! ¡Cuántas veces quise juntar a tus hijos, así como la gallina junta sus pollitos debajo de sus alas, y no quisiste! |
| Swahili | "Yerusalemu! We Yerusalemu! Unawaua manabii na kuwapiga mawe wale waliotumwa kwako! Mara ngapi nimetaka kuwakusanya watoto wako pamoja kama kuku anavyokusanya vifaranga vyake chini ya mabawa yake, Lakini wewe umekataa. |
| Swedish | Jerusalem, Jerusalem, du som dräper profeterna och stenar dem som äro sända till dig! Huru ofta har jag icke velat församla dina barn, likasom hönan församlar sina kycklingar under sina vingar! Men haven icke velat. |
| Uma | "Ee to Yerusalem! to Yerusalem! Nipatehi-ra-koina nabi-nabi, pai' nipana' watu-ra-koina tauna to nasuro-kokoi Alata'ala. Wori' ngkani-mi kupehuka' ngkupui-koi, hewa hama'a manu' tina mpo'urui ana' -na hi une' pani' -na, aga uma-koi dota. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wings": wingspan, wingspans, wingspread, wingspreads. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wings": backswings, beeswings, bitewings, borrowings, bowings, brewings, clearwings, downswings, drawings, followings, forewings, gaywings, glassblowings, gnawings, greenwings, knowings, lacewings, lapwings, lawings, lowings, microbrewings, mowings, overswings, parawings, pigeonwings, redwings, rowings, sewings, showings, swings, underwings, unknowings, upswings, viewings, wappenschawings, waxwings, whistleblowings, whitewings. (additional references) | |
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"Wings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ings, owings, weng, wenge, whing, whinges, wigys, winga, wingd, winge, wingh, wingy, wonga, wongs, wung. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
