wind
- noun
- /wɪnd/
- We obtained responses from 50 students in each of the following applied areas: voice, wind instruments, and string instruments.
- a wind instrument
- play a wind instrument
- a wind player
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, they put a hole right by their heart and that they, you know, they're a damn, they're a wind section of an orchestra.
- I mean, they put a hole right by their heart and that they, you know, they're a damn, they're a wind section of an orchestra.
Examples
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Clarinet was the most difficult of the wind instruments for the campers to play.
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I never had the lungs for wind instruments.
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I know, i sold all the wind instruments.
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This is a fascinating wind machine you have here.
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For elementary band students, the technical challenges of wind instruments can be daunting.
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The campers took private and small-group lessons in voice, wind instruments, percussion, and piano.
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Many compositions that make up the wind-band repertoire are based on songs or chorales.
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Melodic variations (phloev) between the verses are played by wind and percussion instruments.
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The former were known as orquestas de cuerda (string-based orchestras); the wind-based orquestas had no particular name.
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The musician expertly played the wind instrument, captivating the audience with beautiful melodies.
Synonyms
An object like a piano or violin that makes musical sounds
An instrument that makes sound when you blow air through it, like a flute or trumpet
Antonyms
Idioms
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Sailing with the boat pointed almost into the wind to go as directly toward it as possible
- Literature
A person who moves or behaves in a smooth, flexible way like a dancer
Compounds
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An area of land or sea with many tall machines that make electricity from wind
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A large machine that moves air to test how it affects objects like cars or planes
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A steady wind that blows east to west near the equator in tropical regions
An instrument that makes sound when you blow air through it, like a flute or trumpet
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A warm dry wind that blows down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains and quickly raises temperature
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A number scale from zero to twelve used worldwide to show how strong the wind is
A decorative thing of metal, glass or clay that hangs and makes a soft tinkling sound in wind
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The part of a building or ship that faces the wind and is open to it
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A strong wind that blows when cold, heavy air flows down from high ground like a mountain or plateau
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A wildflower with thin stems and bright red cup-shaped flowers that grows in California
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A wind in the tropics that blows from west to east above the trade winds
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Etymology
Wind in 'wind instrument' simply points to the need for breath — these instruments make sound when air is blown through them, so they are called wind instruments.