Synonyms of the word

air

• n. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly.
• n. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical)…
• n. A breeze; a gentle wind.
• n. A feeling or sense.
• n. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
• n. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
• n. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
• n. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
• n. An air conditioner or the processed air it produces. Can be a mass noun or a count noun depending on context;…
• n. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
• n. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
• v. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
• v. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
• v. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
• v. To broadcast, as with a television show.

aerate

• v. To supply oxygen or air.

aerial

• adj. Living or taking place in the air.
• adj. (now literary or historical) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
• adj. Positioned high up; elevated.
• adj. Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
• adj. Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
• adj. Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals…
• n. A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
• n. (photography) Aerial photography.

air

• n. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly.
• n. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical)…
• n. A breeze; a gentle wind.
• n. A feeling or sense.
• n. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
• n. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
• n. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
• n. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
• n. An air conditioner or the processed air it produces. Can be a mass noun or a count noun depending on context;…
• n. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
• n. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
• v. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
• v. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.
• v. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
• v. To broadcast, as with a television show.

airwave

• n. Singular of airwaves; thus often "radio" or "frequency".

atmosphere

• n. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
• n. The air in a particular place.
• n. (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
• n. A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm).

aura

• n. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.
• n. (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
• n. (medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
• n. (medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.

aviation

• n. The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
• n. Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
• n. Industry that produces aircraft.
• n. (collectively, military) aircraft.
• n. A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice.

bare

• adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adj. Naked, uncovered.
• adj. Having no supplies.
• adj. Having no decoration.
• adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
• adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
• adj. Threadbare; much worn.
• adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
• adv. Barely.
• adv. Without a condom.
• n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
• n. Surface; body; substance.
• n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

breeze

• n. A light, gentle wind.
• n. Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
• n. (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
• n. Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
• n. An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
• v. (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
• v. (weather) To blow gently.
• v. To take a horse under a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and…
• n. A gadfly; a horsefly.
• n. A strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
• v. (intransitive) To buzz.

broadcast

• adj. cast or scattered widely, in all directions.
• adj. transmitted, signalled, or communicated via radio waves or electronic means.
• adj. relating to transmissions of messages or signals via radio waves or electronic means.
• n. A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver.
• n. A programme (show, bulletin, documentary, and so on) so transmitted.
• n. (dated) The act of scattering seed.
• v. To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means.
• v. To transmit a message over a wide area.
• v. To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program.
• v. (archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
• v. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.

dry

• adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
• adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
• adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
• v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

element

• n. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution…
• n. A small part of the whole.
• n. (plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
• n. A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
• n. (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
• n. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
• n. A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating…
• n. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching…

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

flying

• adj. That can fly.
• adj. Brief or hurried.
• adj. (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.
• n. An act of flight.
• v. present participle of fly.

freshen

• v. To become fresh.
• v. To make fresh.
• v. (of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving.
• v. To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
• v. To refresh; to revive.
• v. (nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material…
• v. To top up (a drink).
• v. (of wind) to become stronger.

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

medium

• n. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum,…
• n. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
• n. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
• n. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing…
• n. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
• n. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
• n. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
• n. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.
• n. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
• n. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
• n. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
• n. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
• n. A middle place or degree.
• n. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
• n. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
• adj. (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
• adj. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
• adj. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still…
• adv. to a medium extent.

melody

• n. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.

music

• n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.
• n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.
• n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes…
• n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.
• v. (transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

publicise

• v. To make widely known to the public.
• v. To advertise, create publicity for.

publicize

• v. (American) Alternative spelling of publicise.

quality

• n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
• n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
• n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
• n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
• n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
• adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

refresh

• v. To renew or revitalize.
• v. (computing) To reload a document and show any new changes, especially a webpage on the internet.
• v. (computing) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
• v. To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance…
• n. The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of…
• n. (computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version…
• n. The process of modernizing something.

region

• n. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable…
• n. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
• n. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number…
• n. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
• n. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
• n. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
• n. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental…

send

• v. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
• v. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
• v. To bring to a certain condition.
• v. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
• v. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
• v. (nautical) To pitch.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

tell

• v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• v. (transitive) To narrate.
• v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
• v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
• v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
• n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
• n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
• n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

transmit

• v. (transitive) To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
• v. (transitive) To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
• v. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
• v. (transitive) To communicate news or information.
• v. (transitive) To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
• v. (intransitive) To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

traveling

• v. present participle of travel.
• n. (basketball) A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it.
• n. The action of the verb travel.
• adj. That travels (with one).

travelling

• v. present participle of travel.
• n. action of the verb to travel.
• adj. that travels (with one).

tune

• n. A melody.
• n. A song, or short musical composition.
• n. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
• n. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
• n. (Britain, slang) A very good song.
• n. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
• n. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
• v. To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
• v. To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions…
• v. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
• v. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
• v. To sing with melody or harmony.
• v. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.

vent

• n. An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
• n. A small aperture.
• n. The opening of a volcano from which lava flows.
• n. A verbalized frustration.
• n. The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates.
• n. A slit in the seam of a garment.
• n. The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge;…
• n. In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage…
• n. Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
• n. Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
• v. (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
• v. (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
• v. To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
• n. Ventriloquism.
• n. sale; opportunity to sell; market.
• v. To sell; to vend.
• n. (obsolete) A baiting place; an inn.

ventilate

• v. To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
• v. To circulate air through a building, etc.
• v. To provide with a vent.
• v. To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
• v. To expose something to public examination or discussion.
• v. (medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.
• v. (slang) To pierce with bullets.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

zephyr

• n. A light wind from the west.
• n. Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.
• n. Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.