Wing

Noun

 * 1) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
 * 2) Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
 * 3) Part of a building, an extension from the main building
 * 4) A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
 * 5) A group in a military aviation:
 * 6)  A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
 * 7) 🇺🇸 A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
 * 8) (US air force) An Air Force unit composed normally of one primary mission group and the necessary supporting organizations, i.e., organizations designed to render supply, maintenance, hospitalization, and other services required by the primary mission groups.  Primary mission groups may be functional, such as combat, training, transport, or service. A fleet air wing is the basic organizational and administrative unit for naval-, land-, and tender-based aviation.  Such wings are mobile units to which are assigned aircraft squadrons and tenders for administrative organization control.
 * 9) (US navy) A balanced Marine Corps task organization of aircraft groups and squadrons, together with appropriate command, air control, administrative, service, and maintenance units.  A standard Marine Corps aircraft wing contains the aviation elements normally required for the air support of a Marine division.
 * 10) A flank unit; that part of a military force to the right or left of the main body.
 * 11)  A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
 * 12)  A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
 * 13)  A position in several field games on either side of the field.

Synonyms

 * fender (US, panel of a car); guard (Aus, panel of a car)

Derived terms

 * left wing; on the wing; redwing; right wing; take under one's wing; wing it; winged; winger; wingman

Verb

 * 1)  To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
 * 2)  To fly.
 * 3)  (Of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
 * 4)  To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
 * 5)  To throw.

Adverbs for Wing
gaily; sublimely; tirelessly; gracefully; joyously; unflaggingly; angelically; serenely; powerfully.

Thesaurus
KP, L, act drop, addition, administration, aeroplane, affiliate, age group, air arm, air corps, air force, air service, airlift, airplane, annex, appendage, arm, army, army group, asbestos, asbestos board, auspices, backdrop, balloon, band, battalion, batten, battery, battle group, be airborne, bear, bevy, block, body, border, bough, branch, branch office, breakaway group, breast, brigade, bugger, bulge, bunch, cabal, cadre, camp, care, carry, cast, castrate, caucus, chapter, charge, chicken foot, clique, cloth, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, conduct, contingent, convey, corps, coterie, coulisse, counterweight, covey, crew, cripple, crowd, cruise, cure, curtain, curtain board, custodianship, custody, cyclorama, dark meat, de-energize, debilitate, decor, detachment, detail, disable, disenable, division, drain, drift, drop, drop curtain, drumstick, ell, emasculate, enfeeble, escadrille, ethnic group, expansion, extension, faction, ferry, field army, field train, file, fire curtain, flat, fleet, flight, flipper, flit, fly, flying column, freight, gang, garrison, giblets, glide, governance, government, group, grouping, groupment, guardianship, guidance, hamstring, hand, hands, hanging, hobble, hop, hors de combat, hover, hydroplane, imp, in-group, inactivate, incapacitate, interest, interest group, jet, joint, junta, jurisdiction, keeping, kibosh, kitchen police, lame, leg, legion, lift, limb, link, lobe, lobule, local, lodge, lug, maim, management, manhandle, maniple, member, ministry, minority group, mob, movement, navigate, neck, offshoot, organ, organization, out-group, outfit, oversight, oyster, pack, party, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peer group, phalanx, pinion, platoon, political party, posse, post, pressure group, projection, prolongation, protectorship, protrusion, protuberance, put, queer, queer the works, rag, ramification, rank, regiment, runner, sabotage, safe hands, sail, sailplane, salon, scene, scenery, scion, screen, seaplane, sect, section, set, side, side scene, silent majority, soar, spike, splinter, splinter group, spray, sprig, spur, squad, squadron, stable, stage screw, stewardship, strategic air force, string, sweep, switch, tab, tableau, tactical air force, tactical unit, tail, take, take the air, take wing, task force, team, teaser, tendril, thigh, tormentor, tote, train, transformation, transformation scene, transport, tribe, troop, troupe, turkey foot, tutelage, twig, unfit, unit, vocal minority, volplane, waft, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, weaken, whisk, white meat, wingcut, wishbone, woodcut, wreck

Alternative forms

 * whing

Etymology
From vængr:.

Noun

 * Arabela: nesu
 * Arabic:, (pl أجنحة‎)
 * Armenian:
 * Burmese: အတောင်, တောင်ပံ
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 翅膀 (chìbǎng)
 * Min Nan:, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: כנף, אברה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 翼
 * Kazakh:


 * Korean: 날개
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: spārns
 * Lithuanian: sparnas
 * Manx:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: rapra
 * Rohingya:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крило
 * Roman: krilo
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: bawa
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ganat
 * Uyghur: قانات
 * Venetian:
 * West Frisian: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Armenian:
 * Burmese: တောင်ပံ
 * Chinese: 机翼 (jīyì)
 * Croatian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 翼
 * Kurdish: باڵ
 * Latvian: spārns
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: kanat


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: spārns
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: flygel


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Japanese: -翼
 * Latvian: spārns
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: flygel


 * Estonian: pataljon (Br. Air Forces), rügement (U.S. Air Forces)
 * Finnish: lennosto


 * Japanese: 飛行隊
 * Russian:


 * Czech:
 * Estonian: porikaitse


 * Finnish:


 * Italian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Turkish: kanat


 * : krah
 * : (janāħ)


 * : askell, divaskell / eskell / iskilli (1), askell , askelloù  (2), kazel , kazelioù  (3)
 * : крило (kriló) (1,2,3), фланг (flang)  (6)
 * : ala
 * : 翼, 翅膀 (chìbǎng), 机翼 (jīyì)
 * : vleugel (1,2,3,5)
 * : сёлмо (sjolmo)
 * : flugilo (1), planeo (2), ala (3,4,6)
 * : aile
 * : Flügel (1,2,3,5), Schwinge
 * : pepo
 * : sayap (1-5)


 * : ala (1,2,3,5)
 * : 날개 (nalgae)
 * : ala
 * : पंख (pankha)
 * : vinge
 * : fiðere
 * Old Irish: scíathán
 * : skrzydło (1-5), dywizjon  (6)
 * : fak
 * : phāk
 * : aripă (1-5), bază aeriană (6)
 * : sgiath, sgiathan
 * : ala, aleta (7)
 * : రెక్క (rekka) (1,2)
 * : han bilong pisin (1)
 * : kanat

Verb

 * Bulgarian: наранявам, прострелвам (ръка) (prostrélvam)
 * Interlingua: ferir, vulnerar (al bracio)


 * Portuguese: ferir (no braço)
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: volar


 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: kanatlanmak
 * Vietnamese: bay


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:


 * Interlingua: improvisar
 * Portuguese: