Word Confusion: Wind versus Wined

Plural for the noun and third person present verb: winds
Past tense or past participle: wound, winded [Rare] Gerund or present participle: winding

Third person present verb: wines
Past tense or past participle: wined
Gerund or present participle: wining

• [As modifier] Relating to or denoting energy obtained from harnessing the wind with windmills or wind turbines
• Used to suggest something very fast, unrestrained, or changeable
• Used in reference to an influence or tendency that cannot be resisted
• Used in reference to an impending situation
• A gale, storm, hurricane
• Any stream of air, as that produced by a bellows or fan
• The rush of air caused by a fast-moving body
• A scent carried by the wind, indicating the presence or proximity of an animal or person

Breath as needed in physical exertion or in speech

• The power of breathing without difficulty while running or making a similar continuous effort

[British] Air swallowed while eating or gas generated in the stomach and intestines by digestion

• Empty, pompous, or boastful talk
• Meaningless rhetoric

[Treated as singular or plural; also winds] Wind instruments, or specifically woodwind instruments

• The brass and woodwinds sections of a band or orchestra
• Wind instruments or their players considered as a group

Something that disrupts or destroys

Any influential force or trend

A hint or intimation

Vanity

• Conceitedness

[Boxing slang] The pit of the stomach where a blow may cause a temporary shortness of breath

• Solar plexus

Any direction of the compass

A twist or turn in a course ²

A single turn made when winding

Verb, intransitive:
To catch the scent or odor of game ¹

[With adverbial of direction] Move in or take a twisting or spiral course ²

[With object and adverbial] Pass (something) around a thing or person so as to encircle or enfold

• [With adverbial] Be repeatedly twisted or coiled

Verb, transitive:
Cause (someone) to have difficulty breathing because of exertion or a blow to the stomach ¹

Detect the presence of (a person or animal) by scent

To expose to wind or air

• Ventilate
• Dry

[Literary] Sound (a bugle or call) by blowing

[British] Make (a baby) bring up wind after feeding by patting its back

[With object and adverbial] Pass (something) around a thing or person so as to encircle or enfold ²

• Repeatedly twist or coil (a length of something) around itself or a core
• Wrap or surround (a core) with a coiled length of something

Make (a clock or other device, typically one operated by clockwork) operate by turning a key or handle

• Turn (a key or handle) repeatedly around and around
• Cause (an audio or video tape or a film) to move back or forward to a desired point
• [Often with wind up] Hoist or draw (something) with a windlass, winch, or similar device

To drink wine

[West Indian] Dance with rhythmic gyratory movements of the pelvic region ²

Verb, transitive:
Entertain someone by offering them drinks and a meal ¹

Beware an easterly wind.

Gusts of wind eddied through the trees.

A gentle wind blew through the valley.

“Modern wind turbines are used to capture kinetic energy from the wind and generate electricity” (AWEA).

High winds were forecast.

He could run like the wind.

She could be as free and easy as the wind.

There was a wind of change coming.

He had seen which way the wind was blowing.

It lands so quietly, you can only hear the rush of the wind in the top of the trees.

“Wind speed can greatly impact the amount that scent disperses and how far from the source it carries” (Hansen).

He waited while Jerry got his wind back.

Has she got her second wind back?

Ol’ Jerry has been breaking wind all night.

She is just full of wind and hot air.

These passages are most suitable for wind alone.

She played a wind instrument.

The winds of war were blowing.

Trouble will ensue if wind of this scandal gets out.

“Earth is encompassed in a magnetic field, and solar wind stretches this bubble to create a long magnetic tail in the downwind direction” (Yeung).

“So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.” – Eccl. 1:17

He was an expert who was full of wind even before becoming famous.

The blow to my stomach knocked the wind out of me.

The wind is coming from north-northwest.

The wind beat like a fist against his face.

You’ll get more torque with blades that are wider at the tip, enabling them to start turning in lower winds.

Paddy’s wife handed him their six-month-old daughter to be winded.

After a few minutes of puzzled winds and twists and turns and curses muttered under my breath, I come upon the bed.

There’ll be a wind in the river.

Verb, intransitive:
Roscoe winded.

The path wound among olive trees.

He wound a towel around his midriff.

Large vines wound around every tree.

There was a river winding through a valley.

Verb, transitive:
The fall nearly winded him.

The birds could not have seen us or winded us.

But scarce again his horn he wound.

“The wind chill temperature is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by wind and cold and gives you an approximation of how cold the air feels on your body” (Chill).

Anne wound the wool into a ball.

The devices were wound with copper wire.

He wound up the clock every Saturday night.

She was winding the gramophone.

I wound the handle as fast as I could.

Wind the pail to the top of the well.

Wind your tape back and listen to make sure everything is okay.

This is the compartment located in the fo’c’s’le below and behind the anchor winch, into which the anchor chains are wound.

Afterwards the members continued with their AGM in high spirit and Bertie wined and dined at the Radisson SAS Hotel with the Sligo Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor of Sligo, Mr Declan Bree.

The crowd jumped and wined and churned the field into mud.

Verb, transitive:
Members of Congress have been lavishly wined and dined by lobbyists for years.

He wined his cellar with rare vintages.

Gorgeous actress Kate Beckinsale grabbed the hearts of York males as an amazing 64 per cent said she would be their favorite choice to wine and dine on a romantic evening out.

1. Old English and is of Germanic origin and related to the Dutch wind and the German Wind, from an Indo-European root shared by the Latin ventus.
2. Old English windan meaning go rapidly, twine is of Germanic origin and related to wander and wend.

1. Old English wīn is of Germanic origin and related to the Dutch wijn, the German Wein, based on the Latin vinum.
2. Influenced by twine (noun) from the Old English windan meaning go rapidly.