Winding

Verb
winding



Noun

 * 1) something wound around something else
 * 2) the manner in which something is wound
 * 3) one complete turn of something wound
 * 4)  a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer

Adjective

 * 1) twisting, turning or sinuous
 * 2) spiral or helical

Verb
winding


 * 1)  to turn a boat around in a canal

Noun

 * 1) the act or process of winding (turning around)

Derived terms

 * winding hole

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
, from wind:.

Etymology 2
, from wind:, as the wind was used to assist turning.

Noun

 * Italian: avvolgimento (4)

Adjective

 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Scottish Gaelic:

Anagrams

 * dwining