1. n. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
2. n. (slang) Human arm.
3. n. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
4. n. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
5. n. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
6. n. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
7. n. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
8. n. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
9. n. Passage by flying; flight.
to take wing
10. n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
11. n. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
the west wing of the hospital
the wings of a corkscrew
12. n. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
13. n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
14. n. A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
15. n. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
16. n. (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
17. n. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
18. n. (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
19. n. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
20. n. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
21. n. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
22. n. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
23. n. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
24. n. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
25. n. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
26. n. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
27. n. On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype
Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing.
28. v. To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
29. v. (intransitive) To fly.
30. v. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
31. v. To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
1. n. (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
2. n. (nautical,un) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
Take in sail: a storm is coming.
3. n. The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
4. n. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
Let's go for a sail.
5. n. (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
Twenty sail were in sight.
6. n. The blade of a windmill.
7. n. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
8. n. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
9. n. (fishing) A sailfish.
We caught three sails today.
10. n. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaur, dinosaurs and synapsid, synapsids
11. n. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
12. v. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
13. v. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
14. v. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
15. v. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
We sail for Australia tomorrow.
16. v. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
17. v. To move briskly.
The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.
ell
ell
1. n. (historical) A measure for cloth. An English ell equals 1.25 yards, whereas a Scottish ell measures only 1.0335 yards. A Flemish ell measured three quarters (27 inches).
2. n. An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
3. n. Something that is L-shaped.
paraglider
1. n. (Sport) Parapente (aéronef).
paraglider
1. n. One who paraglides.
2. n. A lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure, wherein the pilot sits in a harness suspended below a hollow fabric wing whose shape is formed by its suspens
3. n. The complete equipment used for paragliding, consisting of a paraglider wing and a harness.
4. n. The wing used for paragliding, which can be separated from the harness.
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