Word Meanings - WINDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A call by the boatswain's whistle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WINDING)

• Circuitous
• Indirect
• tortuous
• devious
• serpentine
• round about
• sinuous
• winding
• Serpentine
• Winding
• meandering
• anfractuous
• undulating
• anguilliform
• vermicular
• coiled
• Turn
• Revolution
• rotation
• recurrence
• change
• alteration
• vicissitude
• bend
• deflection
• curve
• alternation
• opportunity
• occasion
• time
• deed
• office
• act
• treatment
• purpose
• requirement
• convenience
• talent
• gift
• tendency
• character
• exigence
• crisis
• form
• cast
• shape
• manner
• mold
• fashion
• cut

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WINDING)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to WINDING)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• CHOKING COIL
  A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.