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
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.
- 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.
Academic text (1998) -
The campers took private and small-group lessons in voice, wind instruments, percussion, and piano.
Academic text (1996) -
Many compositions that make up the wind-band repertoire are based on songs or chorales.
Academic text (2002) -
Melodic variations (phloev) between the verses are played by wind and percussion instruments.
Academic text (2008) -
The former were known as orquestas de cuerda (string-based orchestras); the wind-based orquestas had no particular name.
Academic text (1999) -
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
- Specialized
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 strong wind that blows when cold, heavy air flows down from high ground like a mountain or plateau
- US
A warm dry wind that blows down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains and quickly raises temperature
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A wind in the tropics that blows from west to east above the trade winds
A decorative thing of metal, glass or clay that hangs and makes a soft tinkling sound in wind
- US
A wildflower with thin stems and bright red cup-shaped flowers that grows in California
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A number scale from zero to twelve used worldwide to show how strong the wind is
How Loud
Surface Forms
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.