winding (root: wind)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wind=ing
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

winding, n. [From Wind to blow.].

 A call by the boatswain's whistle.  [1913 Webster]

winding, a. [From Wind to twist.].

 Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.  Keble.  [1913 Webster]

winding, n. 

•  A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.  [1913 Webster]

  "To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
  With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove."  [1913 Webster]
•  The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material;  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine. -- Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped. -- Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel. Totten.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

winding, n.
1 in senses of WIND(2) v.
2 curved or sinuous motion or movement.
3 a a thing that is wound round or coiled. b Electr. coils of wire as a conductor round an armature etc.

Idiom

winding-engine a machine for hoisting. winding-sheet a sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.

THESAURUS

winding

aberrant, aberrative, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution, convoluted, convolution, convolutional, crinkle, crinkling, crooked, curving, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, indirect, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky, stray, swerving, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, undulation, vagrant, veering, wandering, wave, waving, whorled, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

winding

Circuit

N circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop, winding, zigzag, circuitous, indirect, roundabout, zigzag, backhanded, by a side wind, by an indirect course, in a roundabout way, from pillar to post.

Convolution

N convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot, convolution, winding, convolution, involution, circumvolution, wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, sinuation, meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages, torsion, inosculation, reticulation, rivulation, roughness, coil, roll, curl, buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle, tendril, scollop, scallop, escalop, kink, ammonite, snakestone, serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth, knot, convoluted, winding, twisted, tortile, tortive, wavy, undated, undulatory, circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine, serpent, anguill, vermiform, vermicular, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid, sigmoid, sigmoidal, spiriferous, spiroid, involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed, labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, peristaltic, daedalian, kinky, knotted, wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled, raveled, spiral, coiled, helical, cochleate, cochleous, screw-shaped, turbinated, turbiniform, in and out, round and round, a can of worms, Gordian knot.