wing

See also: Wing

wing - English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wĭng, IPA: /wɪŋ/

Noun

wing (plural wings)

  1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
    • The bird was flapping its wings
  2. A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
  3. (slang) Human arm.
  4. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
    • I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
  5. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  6. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  7. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  8. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  9. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  10. Passage by flying; flight.
    • to take wing
  11. Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
  15. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  16. A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
  17. A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
  18. An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
    1. (Britain) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
    2. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
  19. (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
  20. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
  21. (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.
  22. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
    • Smith started the game in the centre of midfield, but moved to the wing after 30 minutes.
  23. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
  24. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
  25. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
  26. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
  27. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
  28. 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.

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Translations

  • Arabic: جَنَاح m (janāḥ)
  • Armenian: թև (hy) (tʿew)
  • Catalan: ala (ca) f
  • Esperanto: alo (eo)
  • Estonian: tiib (et)
  • Finnish: siipi (fi)
  • French: aile (fr) f
  • Galician: á (gl) f
  • German: Flügel (de) m, Gebäudeflügel (de) m (building), Gebäudetrakt m (building)
  • Greek: πτέρυγα (el) m (ptéryga)
  • Hungarian: szárny (hu)
  • Icelandic: álma (is)
  • Irish: sciathán (ga) m
  • Italian: ala (it) f
  • Latvian: spārns (lv) m
  • Maori: kauae (refers to an army), pākau, pākaukau
  • Norwegian:
  • Polish: skrzydło (pl) n
  • Portuguese: ala (pt) f, asa (pt) f
  • Russian: крыло́ (ru) n (kryló), фли́гель (ru) m (flígelʹ)
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgiath f
  • Serbo-Croatian: krilo (sh) n
  • Spanish: ala (es) f, sección (es) f, parte (es) f
  • Swedish: flygel (sv) c
  • Tok Pisin: han (tpi)
  • Ukrainian: крило́ n (kryló), флі́гель (uk) m (flíhelʹ)
  • Volapük: flanäd
  • Asturian: ala (ast) f
  • Catalan: ala (ca) f
  • Estonian: pataljon (UK Air Forces), rügement (et) (U.S. Air Forces)
  • Finnish: lennosto (fi)
  • German: Tragfläche (de) f, Tragflügel m
  • Greek: πτέρυγα (el) f (ptéryga)
  • Italian: squadra (it) f
  • Japanese: 飛行隊 (ja) (ひこうたい, hikōtai)
  • Maori: kauae, kauwae
  • Russian: авиапо́лк (ru) m (aviapólk)
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgiath f
  • Ukrainian: авіабрига́да (uk) f (aviabryháda)
  • Finnish: siipi (fi)
  • Italian: ala (it) f

Verb

wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (nonstandard) wung)

  1. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
  2. (intransitive) To fly.
  3. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
  4. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
    • I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
  5. (transitive) To throw.
  6. (transitive) To furnish with wings.
  7. (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
  8. (transitive) To traverse by flying.

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wing - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): wing1

Adjective

wing

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, of person) intoxicated; tipsy

Synonyms

wing - Middle English

Noun

wing

  1. Alternative form of winge

wing - Tok Pisin

Noun

wing

  1. wing

wing - Vilamovian

Adjective

wing

  1. little (by amount)

wing - Yola

Noun

wing

  1. (figurative) cross
Meaning and Definition of wing
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