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Definition: Wing |
WingNoun1. A movable organ for flying (one of a pair). 2. One of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane. 3. A stage area out of sight of the audience. 4. A unit of military aircraft. 5. The side of military or naval formation; "they attacked the enemy's right flank". 6. The wing of a fowl; "he preferred the drumsticks to the wings". 7. A barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud; "in England they call a fender a wing". 8. An addition that extends a main building. Verb1. Travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Fine Arts | A flat. . . which conceals the off-stage space at the side of the acting area. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The narrow straight sides of a trawlnet. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The humerus, radius, and ulna, together with the surrounding musculature. In the case of turkey wings, humerus or radius/ulna together with the surrounding musculature may be presented separately. The tip, including the carpal bones, may or may not have been removed. The cuts shall be made at the joints. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Military & Defense | The wing is a main supporting surface of an aircraft. The wing may be divided into inner, outer and wing-tip sections. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The side or limb of an anticline. (references) |
Transportation | Aerodynamic surface designed to develop a major part of the lift of a heavier-than-air craft. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A wing is a surface used to produce an aerodynamic force normal to the direction of motion by travelling in air or another gaseous media. The first use of the word was for the foremost limbs of birds, but has been extended to include other animal limbs and man made devices.
Airbus A319. The large flaps on the wing trailing edge are easily seen.
Larger version
Black-browed albatross wings.The commonest use of wings is to fly by deflecting air downwards to produce lift, but wings are also commonly used as a way to produce downforce and hold objects to the ground (for example racing cars).
Terms used to describe aeroplane wings:
Aeroplane wings may feature some of the following:
- Leading edge: the front edge of the wing
- Trailing edge: the back edge of the wing
- Span: distance from wing tip to wing tip
- Chord: distance from wing leading edge to wing trailing edge, usually measured parallel to the long axis of the fuselage
- aspect ratio: ratio of span to standard mean chord
Types of wings:
- A rounded leading edge cross-section
- A sharp trailing edge cross-section
- Leading-edge devices such as slats or slots
- Trailing-edge devices such as flaps
- Ailerons (usually near the wingtips) to provide roll control
- Spoilers on the upper surface to disrupt lift
The amount of lift produced by a wing increases with the angle of attack (the angle between the onset flow and the chord line) but this relationship ends once the stall angle is reached. At this angle the airflow starts to separate from the upper surface, and any further increase in angle of attack gives no more lift (it may actually reduce) and gives a large increase in drag.
- Dihedral wings, which have an angle between them, have inherent stability in roll. As the aircraft rolls, one wing generates more lift, rolling the aircraft back into position.
- Swept wings are good for fast aircraft. They present the wing at an angle to the airflow, so that the wing "sees" a slower airflow.
- Elliptical wings are theoretically optimum for efficiency at subsonic speeds.
- Delta wings have reasonable performance at subsonic and supersonic speeds.
- Waveriders are efficient supersonic wings.
- Rogallo wings are two hollow half-cones of fabric, one of the simplest wings to construct.
- Swing-wings (or variable geometry wings) are able to move in flight to give the benefits of dihedral and delta wing. Although they were originally proposed for the unbuilt Boeing 2707, they are currently only found on some military fighter aircraft such as the Panavia Tornado and General Dynamics F-111.
Wing design is complicated and very tightly associated with the science of aerodynamics.
Examples of wing use:
Constructions of the same purpose as wings, but working in liquid media instead are generally called fins with hydrodynamics as the governing science.
- A helicopter uses a rotating wing with a varible pitch or angle to provide a directional force.
- The space shuttle uses its wings only for lift during its descent.
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In computing, WinG was a port of Win32 APIs for bitmaps built by the Win95 team.It was largely superseded by the more advanced DirectX libraries.
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Wing is a city located in Burleigh County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 124.Geography
Wing is located at 47°8'27" North, 100°16'50" West (47.140938, -100.280626)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²). 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 124 people, 68 households, and 32 families residing in the city. The population density is 81.1/km² (210.3/mi²). There are 89 housing units at an average density of 58.2/km² (150.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.19% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.81% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 68 households out of which 14.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.1% are married couples living together, 2.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 51.5% are non-families. 48.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 30.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.82 and the average family size is 2.64. In the city the population is spread out with 13.7% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 16.9% from 25 to 44, 32.3% from 45 to 64, and 33.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 53 years. For every 100 females there are 90.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.7 males. The median income for a household in the city is $14,688, and the median income for a family is $44,167. Males have a median income of $26,750 versus $23,438 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,970. 19.7% of the population and 10.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 20.0% are under the age of 18 and 35.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wing, North Dakota."
Synonyms: WingSynonyms: annex (n), annexe (n), backstage (n), extension (n), fender (n), flank (n), offstage (n), fly (v). (additional references) |
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Adjunct | Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing. |
Combatant | Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
Laterality | Noun: laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip; beam. |
Navigation | Aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. |
Part | Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum. |
Refuge | Covert, cover, shelter, screen, lee wall, wing, shield, umbrella; barrier; dashboard, dasher. |
The Drama | Flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium. |
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Crosswords: Wing |
| English words defined with "wing": bastard wing ♦ chicken wing ♦ False wing ♦ Sea wing, spurious wing ♦ turkey wing ♦ Wing case, Wing covert, wing loading, Wing shell, wing shooting, Wing stroke. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wing": aero-isoclinic wing, arrow wing, arrowhead wing ♦ clipped wing ♦ Davis wing, delta wing ♦ Grey Goose Wing, Griffith wing ♦ infinite-span wing ♦ silt vanes-cum-curved wing, skewed wing, slotted wing, sweptback wing, swept-back wing ♦ wing assembly, wing beam, wing chord, wing fence, wing flap, wing flaps, wing rib, Wing, Wings. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wing": Yarwhip. (references) |
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Screenplays | Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) It's pretty hard to soar when you have a broken wing. (Warriors of Virtue; writing credit: Dennis Law; Ron Law) Okay, I've got a leg, three breasts, and a wing. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) It looks like a chicken wing or a cheese fry. (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Lyrics | That could not mend a broken wing (I'll Remember, Theme From "With Honors" (1994); performing artist: Madonna) Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing; (Buy For Me the Rain; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Birds on the Wing (1971) Lotus Wing (1967) Fighter Wing (1956) Wing and a Prayer (1944) Love on the Wing (1939) | |
Song Titles | Right Wing Roundup (performing artist: Reverend Billy C. Wirtz) | |
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 | Showing is the new AIDS wing of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center. This wing opened in April 1992. Shots include 2 views, horizontal and vertical. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Note the shingle-like pattern of the wing, which promotes heightened aerodynamic lift during the insect's flight. Credit: CDC. |
 | Common characteristics of Culiseta melanura include a long and curved proboscis, a dark-scaled abdomen, and slightly enlarged dark scales on the outer wing. This mosquito is a vector of the eastern equine encephalitis virus in bird populations. Credit: CDC. |  | Flying Wing & QSRA. Credit: NASA. |
 | Flying Oblique Wing. Credit: NASA. |  | NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft. Credit: NASA. |
 | X-38 on B-52 Wing Pylon. Credit: NASA. |  | H. Arnold Karo Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey 1955-1965 Deputy Administrator of ESSA with rank of Vice-Admiral 1965-1966 On bridge wing of EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Transportation on the upper Amazon River Transporting survey crews of Carl Aslakson Aslakson with Army Air 311th Air Photo Wing. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Five Cow-nosed Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus - gliding toward the photographer with both wing tips up. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Airplane wing" by Nick Robinson Commentary: "The protruding wing of an airplane." | "Wing mirror" by Claire Jones Commentary: "Picture of the sunset." |
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 | Ding; air pressure; wing; airplane; pilot; test; precautionary; prepare; preparation. | | Wing; winged; flap; flutter; fly. |
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Bill Hicks | That is one of my big fears in life, that I'm gonna die, you know, and my parents are gonna come to clean out my apartment, find that porno wing I've been adding onto for years. |
Charles Dickens | Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. |
Eugene Field | All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it. |
Gamaliel Bailey | The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken. |
Jean Paul Richter | Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. |
John Milton | How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! |
Miguel De Cervantes | The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The same is to be observed in all birds, (except some domestic ones, where plenty of food excuses the cock from feeding, and taking care of the young brood) whose young needing food in the nest, the cock and hen continue mates, till the young are able to use their wing, and provide for themselves. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Perhaps, he thought anxiously to himself, perhaps it was something to do with having heated wing mirrors |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | One little grey bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure, had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Measure this sweep of wing which reaches from Moliere to Barra |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | On the wall a picture of an Indian girl in color, labeled Red Wing. |
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Business | Dowty's Component & Accessory Service Center provides overhaul services to a wide range of fixed and rotary wing aircraft. (references) | |
The sector is regulated and supervised by the Department General of Posts and Telecommunications (DGPT). This department operates through its business wing, VNPT. In effect VNPT has a complete monopoly on the industry. (references) | ||
This center is equipped to repair and overhaul power flight control mechanisms, wing flap carriage fittings and assemblies, hydraulic servo actuators and valves, hydraulic pumps, pressure vessels, propellers, wheels and brakes and to conduct flexible hose pressure test and manufacture. (references) | ||
Children | Kiribati | The central hospital on Tarawa has a wing for persons with mental disabilities. (references) |
Pakistan | The Shabab-i-Milli, the youth wing of the Jaamat-i-Islami party, launched a campaign in May 2000 to combat child prostitution by raising public awareness of the problem. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | Under current law, a religious organization that undertakes development activities must register its development wing separately as an NGO. (references) |
Economic History | Lesotho | The LDF consists of an army, an air wing, and a newly formed paramilitary wing. (references) |
Syria | Conflict developed between a moderate military wing and a more extremist civilian wing of the Ba'ath Party. (references) | |
Israel | Likud edged Labor out by one seat but was unable to form a coalition with the religious and right wing parties. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Arab Emirates | They then are placed in the same wing as convicted individuals. (references) |
Chile | Those with sufficient funds often can rent space in a better wing of the prison. (references) | |
Colombia | The seizure of financial documents revealed that legitimate businesses finance the right wing groups. (references) | |
Minorities | India | A survey conducted during the first half of the year by the Protection of Civil Rights wing of the Tamil Nadu Adidravidar (indigenous peoples) Department identified 191 villages in Tamil Nadu where caste-based oppression and violence, and the practice of untouchability, are prevalent. (references) |
Political Economy | Cote D'ivoire | The RDR formed as a splinter group of the PDCI's reformist wing. (references) |
Poland | ROP supports lower taxes, but the party's strong populist wing criticizes privatization and foreign investment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Colombia | Guerrillas are suspected in at least three plots to kill right wing, independent presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe. (references) |
Sierra Leone | Opposition parties, including the political wing of the RUF, argued for an interim government following the postponement of elections and their inability to draw up single member constituencies as required by the Constitution; the Government rejected the proposal. (references) | |
Austria | This coalition received widespread criticism due to the nature of the FPO, which has been characterized by many observers as a "right wing populist party with radical elements." The percentage of women in government or politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
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| "Wing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Wing" is used about 2,827 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 (singular) | 95.83% | 2,709 | 3,392 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.36% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.6% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.21% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,827 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wing" 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 |
| Wing | Last name | 5,000 | 2,390 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Wing Hang Bank Limited | Malaysia | Wing Tiek Holdings Berhad |
| Singapore | Wing Tai Holdings Limited | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Wing, AL 2. Wing, ND (city, FIPS 86780) |
Expressions using "wing": airforce wing ♦ angle of wing setting ♦ arrowhead wing ♦ augmentor wing ♦ barbecued wing ♦ Bastard wing ♦ broken wing ♦ buffalo wing ♦ cantilever wing ♦ center wing section ♦ chicken wing ♦ clipped wing ♦ conservative wing ♦ corrugated inner wing skin ♦ Crow Wing County ♦ dam wing ♦ Davis wing ♦ delta wing ♦ design wing area ♦ elliptical wing ♦ extremist wing ♦ False wing ♦ folding wing aeroplane ♦ forward swept wing ♦ Griffith wing ♦ gull wing ♦ have left wing tendencies ♦ inboard wing ♦ inverted gull wing ♦ left wing ♦ lower surface of wing ♦ mid wing ♦ on the wing ♦ Police Support Group Headquarters and Training Wing ♦ port wing ♦ Red Wing ♦ remand wing ♦ right wing ♦ Right wing down ♦ rope wing trawl ♦ rotary wing ♦ sea wing ♦ shoot a bird on the wing ♦ shoulder wing ♦ skewed wing ♦ slotted wing ♦ spurious wing ♦ swept wing ♦ sweptback wing ♦ swing wing ♦ take under one's wing ♦ take wing ♦ tapered wing ♦ To beat the wing ♦ To wing a flight ♦ turkey wing ♦ Under the wing ♦ under the wing of ♦ upper surface of wing ♦ water wing ♦ white wing ♦ wind turbine with flapped ring wing diffuser ♦ wing and backcloth setting ♦ wing and wing ♦ wing assembly ♦ wing beam ♦ wing beat ♦ wing bolt ♦ wing case ♦ wing chair ♦ wing chord ♦ wing clearance light ♦ wing collar ♦ wing commander ♦ wing cover ♦ wing covert ♦ wing elm ♦ wing feather ♦ wing fence ♦ wing fillet ♦ wing flap ♦ wing flaps ♦ wing flat ♦ wing gudgeon ♦ wing it ♦ wing loading ♦ wing nut ♦ wing of a bird ♦ wing of dam ♦ wing one's flight ♦ wing rib ♦ wing root ♦ wing screw ♦ wing section ♦ wing setting ♦ wing sheath ♦ wing shell ♦ wing shooting ♦ wing slot ♦ wing stroke ♦ wing tip. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wing": wing-backed, wing-bar, wing-bars, wing-base, wing-bases, wing-bearing, wing-beat, wing-beats, wing-bone, wing-bones, wing-braced, wing-bud, wing-buds, wing-clapping, wing-collar, wing-collars, Wing-commander, Wing-commanders, wing-coupling, wing-coverts, wing-cum-fullback, wing-dance, wing-ding, wing-down, wing-drop, wing-fans, wing-feathers, wing-flapping, wing-flaps, wing-flashes, wing-fold, wing-folded, Wing-footed, wing-forward, wing-forwards, wing-hair, wing-half, wing-halves, Wing-handed, wing-heeled, wing-it, wing-knuckles, Wing-leaved, wing-less, wing-level, wing-leveller, wing-like, wing-loading, wing-margin, wing-membrane, wing-mirror, wing-mirrors, wing-mounted, wing-movement, wing-movements, wing-nut, wing-nuts, wing-nutted, wing-over, wing-pad, wing-pads, wing-parties, wing-patch, wing-patches, wing-pattern, wing-play, wing-polarizing, wing-powers, wing-root, wing-roots, wing-rudiment, wing-rudiments, wing-scales, wing-screws, wing-shaped, Wing-shell, wing-span, wing-spans, wing-spread, wing-stirrings, wing-stretched, wing-stretching, wing-stroke, wing-tagged, Wing-tat, wing-threequarter, wing-tip, wing-tips, wing-to-fuselage, wing-tremble, wing-veins, wing-walk, wing-walked, wing-walker, wing-walkers, wing-walking, wing-whirring, wing-winnowing. | |
Ending with "wing": broken-wing, C-wing, high-wing, low-wing, swept-wing. | |
Containing "wing": angel-wing begonia, fixed-wing aircraft, four-wing flying fish, left-wing orientated, left-wing party, left-wing policy, left-wing political party, left-wing tendencies, left-wing views, right-wing extremist, right-wing party, two-wing flying fish. | |
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| 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 |
gundam wing | 3,572 | x wing alliance | 107 |
west wing | 807 | red wing pottery | 106 |
gundam wing picture | 594 | gundam wing yaoi | 105 |
red wing minnesota | 520 | american theater wing | 104 |
wing chun | 470 | buffalo wing recipe | 98 |
red wing boot | 454 | gundam wing mp3 | 96 |
red wing shoes | 432 | tattoo wing | 88 |
wing | 354 | hot recipe wing | 88 |
wing commander | 337 | angel wing | 81 |
gundam wing image | 218 | gundam wing fanfics | 80 |
red wing | 204 | honda gold wing | 78 |
gundam wing wallpaper | 186 | gold wing | 78 |
gundam wing music | 178 | wing tsun | 75 |
chicken wing recipe | 164 | wing chair | 74 |
gundam wing fan fiction | 151 | wing chun kung fu | 73 |
angel tattoo wing | 150 | gundam wing gallery | 71 |
x wing | 141 | wing commander prophecy | 69 |
wing zero | 138 | rear wing | 67 |
gundam wing hentai | 125 | right wing | 65 |
stop wing | 117 | wing zone | 65 |
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| Language | Translations for "wing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vleuel. (various references) | |
Albanian | stemë e aviatorit, prapaskenë (background, wings), plagos në krah, lëshoj shigjetën, krah (arm, bay, beam, boom, bundle, cantilever, console, fin, flank, hand, outhouse, outrigger, pinion, Pinna, shoulder, side, winger), i jap krah, fraksion (faction, fraction, junto), fluturoj (blow off, flap, flit, fly, fly away, fly by, run, soar, spread, voyage), fletë (fin, lamina, leaf, page, petal, pinion, sheet, vane), anësor (collateral, fringe, lateral, marginal, peripheral, secondary, side, sidelong, sideways, winger). (various references) | |
Arabic | ذراع الإنسان, شىء كالجناح شكلا, إخترق مستعينا بأجنحة, الجناح (aisle), الجناح من مبنى, جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wound, wounding), شق طريق بالطيران, جناح (annexe, flank, lean to, pavilion, suite, van, ward), جانب (part, side), طار (fly, flying, plane, rise, stream, swarm, take off, take wing, volatilize, whiffle, winnow), طيران (aviation, flight, fly, flying), سدد الضربات, ساعده على الطيران, سقط طائرة, منطقة نائية, جنح (heel). (various references) | |
Basque | hegal. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iimáóhkominniiksiini (red wing blackbird). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ято (bevy, Covey, flight, flock, gaggle, pack, skein), слагам крила, фланг (flank), крилце, крило (faction, group, hand, penthouse, pinion, plane), калник (dashboard, fender, mud box, mudguard, splash-board, splasher, sump), орляк (bevy, flight, flock), окрилявам (give wings to), нося се (be rife, bound, drift, float, hover, rack, resound, ride, roll, sail, sashay, skim, skitter, slip, spin along, sweep, wear), летя (fly, kite, sail, spin along, tear, tear along), прелитам (flit, hop, migrate, shoot), изстрелвам (loose, project, set off, shoot, shoot away, shoot off, throw, touch off, volley), изпращам (consign, delegate, deliver, dismiss, dispatch, get off, pack off, relegate, see, see off, send, send off, send on, send out, ship), давам крила на. (various references) | |
Chinese | 翼 . (various references) | |
Czech | křídlo (grand, grand piano, leaf, pinion, wing of a bird). (various references) | |
Danish | vinge (ala, baffle, blade, paddle, scraper, vane). (various references) | |
Dutch | vleugel (pianoforte), vlerk. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pafvundi (wound), flugilo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vongur. (various references) | |
Farsi | گروه هواءی , بال مانند, بالدارکردن , دسته حزبی , شاخه (Arm, Bough, Grain, Limb, Sprout, Tributary), شعبه (Arm, Branch, Chapter, Department, Filial, Member, Offshoot, Prong, Substation), جناح (Aisle, Shoulder), بال (Limb, Pinion), زاءده پره دار, پیمودن (Mete, Pace, Run, Survey, Traverse, Wend), قسمتی ازیک بخش یاناحیه , هرچیزی که هوارابرهم طرف , پردارکردن , پرش (Bounce, Convulsion, Fly, Jump, Jumpoff, Leap, Spout, Startle), پرواز (Flight, Fly, Plane), پره (Vane), زاءده حبابی . (various references) | |
Finnish | siipi (blade, vane). (various references) | |
French | aile. (various references) | |
Frisian | wjuk. (various references) | |
German | Flügel (blade, casement, door, grand piano, leaf, nostril, piano, remand wing, sail, side, sidepiece, vane, wings), Tragfläche (airfoil, hydrofoil, plane, surface), Kotflügel (fender, fender US, mudguard, mudguards), Fittich (pinion). (various references) | |
Greek | φτερό (feather, mudguard, plume). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעוף (flit, fly, soar), לטוס (fly), אגף (aisle, department, flank, side), אבר (limb, organ, part, pinion), כנף (corner, flap, limb, retiring), גפה (bank of a river, hedge, squadron), גף (arm, hand, limb, squadron). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hombár oldalsó része, ágytartó szárny, oldal (facet, flank, page, side), klikk (band, camarilla, clique, faction, junto, platoon, ring), keresztfurat, kerékdob feletti fedélzetrész, oldalszárny (flank, lateral, side wing), hordfelület (bearing surface, deck, plane, working surface), oldaltér, füles csavar (lug bolt, ringbolt), csoport (band, bank, battery, bunch, clump, cluster, colony, company, covey, faction, gang, group, knot, number, platoon, posse, rating, team, troop), ajtószárny, érdekcsoport (band, interest-group, ring), épületszárny (annex, annexe, side wing), állítható fényrekesz, kar (arm, chorus, faculty, faculty of arts, hand, handle, lever, pinion, quire, school), sárhányó (dashboard, fender, mudguard, splash-board, splasher), toldaléképület (annex, annexe, lean-to), szárnybőr, szárnyas csavar (thumbscrew), szárnyalás (soaring), oldalépület, sárvédő (fender, splash-board, splasher), vágóél (face), repülés (aeronautics, airmanship, aviation, flight, fly, flying, pilotage), repülőosztály, repülô, röpít (to wing), pilótajelvény, páncélöv mögötti folyosó, szárny (arm, fan-tail, flank, flap, flier, lap, pinion, plane, side, van, vane). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sayap. (various references) | |
Italian | ala (brim), braccio (arm, boom, brace, bracket, Ell, fathom, hand, jib, reach). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 羽 (feather, plume), 羽 (counter for birds, counter for rabbits, feather, plume), 翼棟 , ウイルス病 (jacket, Vienna coffee, Vienna sausage, Viennese, Viennese waltz, viral disease, virus disease, wait, waiter, waitress, Weber, Wiener, Wimbledon, winch, wind, windbreaker, windfall, windjacket, window, window display, window dressing, window shopping, Windsor char, windsurfer, windsurfing, wing collar, wink, Winker, winter resort, winter sports). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウイング , よくとう, はね (feather, plume, shuttlecock, splashes). (various references) | |
Korean | 날개 (wings). (various references) | |
Malay | sayap. (various references) | |
Manx | skian (aegis, baffle, mudguard, pinion), boayneyder (winger). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vinge. (various references) | |
Occitan | ala. (various references) | |
Papiamen | ala (fin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | asa (ear, handle, knob). (various references) | |
Romanian | culise la teatru, înaripa, accelera (accelerate, dispatch, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, smarten up, speed up), aripã (arm, dash-board, fan, flipper, mudguard, paddle, pinion, sail, vane), aripat, aripioarã (fin, paddle, winglet), batant (fold, swinging), braţ de ochelari, brigadã de aviaţie, împãna o sãgeatã, coastã (beach, coast, rib, sea-shore, seaside, shore, side, slope), zbura prin, emblemã de aviator, escadrilã (squadron), flanc (file, flank), grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur), paletã de ventilator, rãni la aripã, regiment de aviaţie, strãbate în zbor, zbor (flight, fly, flying, gliding, race, soar, soaring, towering, volitation), canat (fold, leaf, valve). (various references) | |
Russian | крыло (annexe, hand, leaf, mudguard, mud-guard, pinion). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgiath (a shield, a wing, shield, target). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vazduhoplovni puk, raniti (injure, scar, traumatize, wound), poleteti (blast off, dash, take off), okrilje (aegis, lee, protection), krilo (ala, fringe, lap, pennon, pinion). (various references) | |
Spanish | ala (pinion, pinna), guardabarros (mudguard, splashboard). (various references) | |
Sranan | frey (fly). (various references) | |
Swahili | ubawa. (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-phîko. (various references) | |
Swedish | vinge (aerofoil, pinion, vane), flygel (fender, flank, grand, grand piano), eskader (fleet, squadron). (various references) | |
Tagalog | pakpák. (various references) | |
Thai | สมาชิกพรรคฝ่ายซ้าย (left wing). (various references) | |
Turkish | kanat (aerofoil, fin, flank, flanking, flap, leaf, limb, pinion, plane, ptero-, surface, Van). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ganat. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стулка (oral), угруповання (clique), філіал (branch, filiation), флігель (annex, annexe, outhouse, out-office, pavilion), фланг (flank), крило (aerofoil, airfoil, dashboard, mudguard, pinion, vane), крилатка, окрилювати, нападаючий гравець, авіабригада, летіти (fly), прилаштовувати крила, поранити в крило. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sâu bọ, sự cất cánh, qu. (various references) | |
Welsh | asgell (fin), adain. (various references) | |
Yucatec | xiik' (armpit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | a, ahi. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pteron. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ala, alae, alam, alarum, alas, alis, ascella, ascellas, medala, penna, pennae, pinna. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | ele. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 39, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apesklhrunen ta tekna authV wste mh eauth eiV kenon ekopiasen aneu fobou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Duratur ad filios suos quasi non sint sui frustra laboravit nullo timore cogente |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | She is maad hard to hir sones, as thoy thei be not hiris; in veyn she trauailide, no drede constreynende. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 39, Verse 16 |
| Albanian | I trajton ashpër të vegjlit e tij, sikur të mos ishin të vetët; por lodhja e tij pa asnjë interes është e kotë, |
| Cebuano | Mabangis siya sa iyang mga kuyabog, ingon nga daw sila dili iya: Bisan makawang ang iyang kabudlay, siya dili mahadlok; |
| Croatian | S nojiæima k'o s tuðima postupa; što mu je trud zaludu, on ne mari. |
| Danish | Mon Strudsens Vinge er lam, eller mangler den Dækfjer og Dun, |
| Finnish | Kamelikurjen siipi lepattaa iloisesti, mutta asuuko sen sulissa ja höyhenissä haikaran hellyys? |
| German | Er wird so hart gegen seine Jungen, als wären sie nicht sein, achtet's nicht, daß er umsonst arbeitet. |
| Haitian Creole | Li fè tankou ze yo pa pou li. Sa pa di l' anyen si li bay tèt li tout lapenn ponn ze yo pou gremesi, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia bersikap seolah-olah anaknya bukan miliknya; ia tidak peduli jika usahanya sia-sia saja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sayap apakah yang berkepak-kepak demikian dengan kesukaannya? Sayap bangaukah atau sayap burung untakah? |
| Italian | Tratta duramente i figli, come se non fossero suoi, della sua inutile fatica non si affanna, |
| Maori | He mea pakeke ia ki ana pi me te mea ehara i a ia: ahakoa ka maumauria tana mahi, kahore ona manawapa; |
| Norwegian | Strutsen flakser lystig med vingene; men viser dens vinger og fjær moderkjærlighet? |
| Portuguese | Endurece-se para com seus filhos, como se não fossem seus; embora se perca o seu trabalho, ela está sem temor; |
| Rumanian | Este asprq cu puii sqi de parcq nici n`ar fi ai ei. Cq s`a trudit de geaba, nu -i pasq nici de cum! |
| Russian | ПО ЦЕУФПЛ Л ДЕФСН УЧПЙН, ЛБЛ ВЩ ОЕ УЧПЙН, Й ОЕ ПРБУБЕФУС, ЮФП ФТХД ЕЗП ВХДЕФ ОБРТБУЕО; |
| Spanish | Trata con dureza a sus hijos, como si no fueran suyos, sin temor de que su trabajo haya sido en vano. |
| Swedish | Strutshonans vingar flaxa med fröjd, men vad modersömhet visa väl hennes pennor, hennes fjädrar? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wing": wingback, wingbacks, wingbow, wingbows, wingding, wingdings, winged, wingedly, winger, wingers, wingier, wingiest, winging, wingless, winglessness, winglessnesses, winglet, winglets, winglike, wingman, wingmen, wingover, wingovers, wings, wingspan, wingspans, wingspread, wingspreads, wingtip, wingtips, wingy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wing": allowing, arrowing, avowing, awing, backswing, batwing, bedewing, beeswing, bellowing, beshadowing, beshrewing, besnowing, bestowing, bestrewing, bestrowing, billowing, bitewing, blawing, blowing, borrowing, bowing, bowwowing, brewing, burrowing, cawing, chainsawing, chawing, checkrowing, chewing, chowing, clapperclawing, clawing, clearwing, clewing, corkscrewing, cornrowing, cowing, crewing, crowing, dawing, declawing, dewing, disallowing, disavowing, disendowing, dowing, downswing, drawing, elbowing, embowing, endowing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wing": backswings, beeswings, bewinged, bitewings, borrowings, bowingly, bowings, brewings, clearwings, downswings, drawings, flowingly, followings, forewings, gaywings, glassblowings, glowingly, gnawings, greenwings, growingly, knowinger, knowingest, knowingly, knowingness, knowingnesses, knowings, lacewings, lapwings, lawings, lowings, microbrewings, mowings, overswinging, overswings, parawings, pigeonwings, redwings, rowings, sewings, showings, swingby, swingbys, swinge, swinged, swingeing, swinger, swingers, swinges, swingier, swingiest, swinging. (additional references) | |
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"Wing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dwing, ning, ving, wange, wanig, weng, wenge, whing, wicn, widg, wigi, wiin, wilg, winc, winga, wingd, winge, wingh, wingy, wini, winna, wint, winx, winz, wirng, wonga, wuin, wuing, wung, xing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wing" (pronounced wi"ng) |
| 3 | w i" ng | swing, upswing. |
| 2 | -i" ng | bring, cling, ding, fling, king, Ling, ping, ring, sing, sling, spring, sting, string, thing, ting, wring, zing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-w" | |
-1 letter: gin, wig, win. | |
-2 letters: in. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-w" | |
+1 letter: awing, owing, swing, wigan, wings, wingy, wring. | |
+2 letters: aweing, awning, bowing, cawing, cowing, dawing, dewing, dowing, hawing, hewing, jawing, jewing, jowing, lawing, lowing, mawing, mewing, mowing, owning, pawing, rowing, sawing, sewing, sowing, swinge, swings, swingy, tawing, tewing, towing, twinge, vowing, wading, waging, waking, waling, waning, waring, waving, waxing, whinge, wifing, wigans, wigeon, wiling, winged, winger, wining, wiping, wiring, wising, witing, wiving, wooing, wowing, wrings, wrying, wyling, wyting, yawing, yowing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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