| windiness | 1. The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. 2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. 3. Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. 4. Tumour; puffiness. "The swelling windiness of much knowledge." (Brerewood) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| windle | 1. A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch. 2. <zoology> The redwing. Origin: From Wind to turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windless | 1. Having no wind; calm. 2. Wanting wind; out of breath. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windlestraw | <botany> A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially. Agrostis Spica-ventis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windmill | A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| window | 1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. "I leaped from the window of the citadel." (Shak) " Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow." (Milton) 2. The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. "Till he has windows on his bread and butter." (King) French window, the common European martin. Window tax, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. Origin: OE. Windowe, windoge, Icel. Vindauga window, properly, wind eye; akin to Dan. Vindue. See Wind, and Eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| window level | The CT number setting in Hounsfield units of the midpoint of the window width, which is the gray scale of the image; a typical window level for imaging the lungs if -500; for the abdomen, 0. (05 Mar 2000) |
| window width | The range of CT numbers (in Hounsfield units) included in the gray scale video display of the CT image, ranging from 1 to 2000 or 3000, depending on the type of machine. See: window level. (05 Mar 2000) |
| windowpane | 1. See Pane, (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane. 2. <zoology> A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Synonym: spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windowy | Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windpipe | <anatomy> The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windpuffs | An affliction of horses marked by a collection of synovial fluid between the tendons of the legs, particularly just above the fetlock joint, the prominence appearing on both sides of the tendon; most common in hard-worked animals and may end in lameness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| windsor | A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. <botany> See Bean. Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windy | 1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterised by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." "Blown with the windy tempest of my heart." (Shak) 2. Next the wind; windward. "It keeps on the windy side of care." (Shak) 3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather. 4. Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food. 5. Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic." 6. Empty; airy. "Windy joy." "Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored." (South) Origin: AS. Windig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windpipe |
The airway that leads from the larynx to the lungs. Also called the trachea.
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| windburn |
Injury to plant foliage caused by strong, hot, dry winds.
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| window |
1. A band in the electromagnetic spectrum that offers maximum transmission and minimal attenuation through a particular medium with the use of a specific sensor. See atmospheric window. 2. Open water in a predominantly frozen river. It is caused by warmer water from a spring or tributary, or by turbulence over a shoal. See polyn'ya. 3. (Obsolete.) A term for the chaff used for military countermeasure purposes during World War II.
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| windchill |
The combined cooling effect of wind and air temperature on heated bodies.
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| window |
A window on a baby carriage is located in the canopy. Windows are usually made out of nylon mesh or plastic, and serves double duty as a place for a baby to view the world and as protection from the elements, or other hazards such as insects.
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| wind | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
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| wind | catch the scent of |
| wind | extend in curves and turns |
| wind | a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns |
| wind | the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind |
| wind | exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) |
| wind | a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it |
| wind | a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind |
| wind | power derived from the wind (as by windmills) |
| wind | generator that extracts usable energy from winds |
| wind | a harp having strings tuned in unison |
| wind | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath |