wing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: wĭng; IPA(key): /wɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋ
Noun
[edit]wing (plural wings)
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- The bird was flapping its wings
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (slang) Human arm.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- to take wing
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Fiery expedition be my wing.
- 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
- 2017, Laura Bates, Girl Up, page 8:
- It's a bit annoying but (like sanitary pads with wings) it's worth it if you want to stay extra secure.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- (slang, MLE) Short for prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- 2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics):
- They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
- 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, the sail of a ship, etc.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto IX:
- Fair ship, that from the Italian shore,
Sailest the placid ocean-plains
With my lost Arthur’s loved remains,
Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (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.
- 1864, William M. Brady, The Kedge-anchor:
- their ends may rest a little below the orlop-wing gratings
- (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.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- 1985, David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary, page 378:
- ˇ wing, wedge, hǎcek, inverted circumflex (Karel Čapek)
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- Anyone and everyone with wings - press officers, operations specialists, even General Curtis LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe - was put on flight duty and took turns flying double shifts for "Operation Vittles."
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- 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.
Alternative forms
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (panel of a car): fender (US), guard (Australia)
- (sports position): forward
- (U.S. Air Force): delta (U.S. Space Force), garrison (U.S. Space Force)
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- air wing
- angel wing
- angel wings
- anglewing
- awing
- bandwing
- barwing
- bastard wing
- batswing
- bat's wing
- bat wing
- batwing
- bat-wing
- beat the wing
- beeswing
- bewing
- bingo wings
- birdwing
- bite wing
- bitewing
- blood wings
- bluewing
- broadwing
- bronze-wing
- bronzewing
- buck-and-wing
- buffalo wing
- chicken-wing
- chicken wing
- clip someone's wings
- clip the wings of
- cloudywing
- cloudy wing virus
- corkwing
- crimsonwing
- Crow Wing
- cupwing
- cut the pigeon wing
- deformed wing virus
- delta wing
- dropwing
- duckwing
- duskywing
- earn one's wings
- expand one's wings
- fixed-wing
- flatwing
- flexwing
- flopwing
- flying wing
- fly with leaden wings
- fore wing
- front wing
- goose wing
- goose-wing
- greater wing
- greenwing
- gullwing
- gull-wing
- Hawkwing
- hind wing
- hindwing
- hot wing
- if pigs had wings
- if pigs had wings they would fly
- interwing
- lacewing
- leafwing
- leatherwing
- left-wing
- left-wing anarchism
- left-wing anarchist
- lesser wing
- liver wing
- longwing
- mapwing
- mealywing
- midwing
- mothwing
- nosewing
- notchwing
- oblique wing
- on a wing and a prayer
- on the wing
- on the wings of the wind
- on wing
- outwing
- overwing
- parawing
- pigeonwing
- rat with wings
- Red Wing
- redwing
- red wings
- Reich-wing
- reich-wing
- Reich wing
- right-wing
- right-wing socialism
- ring wing
- Rogallo wing
- rotary wing
- rotary-wing aircraft
- rotary-wing intercept
- roughwing
- sabrewing
- scallopwing
- scorched wing
- shortwing
- shufflewing
- shutwing
- singe one's wings
- slimwing
- spoonwing
- spread one's wings
- spreadwing
- spurwing
- standard-wing
- stretch one's wings
- sunwing
- swept wing
- sweptwing
- swept-wing
- swiftwing
- swing-wing
- take under one's wing
- take wing
- tiltwing
- try one's wings
- twistwing
- under one's wing
- underwing
- upon the wing
- upperwing
- upwing
- wait in the wings
- water wing
- waxwing
- whistlewing
- whitewing
- wing and prayer
- wing-and-wing
- wing attack
- wingback
- wing back
- wing-back
- wing bar
- wingbase
- wingbeat
- wingcase
- wing chair
- wing collar
- wing commander
- wing corkscrew
- wing defence
- wingding
- Wingdings
- wingdog
- wingdom
- winged
- winger
- wingette
- wing fence
- wingfic
- wing fic
- wingfish
- wing foiling
- wing foiling
- wing-footed
- wing gear
- wing-handed
- winghead
- winghold
- wing in ground effect
- wingism
- wingist
- wing it
- wingless
- winglet
- winglike
- wing loading
- wingman
- wingmate
- wing mirror
- wing nut
- wingnut
- wing-nut
- wingover
- wingpad
- wingpit
- wing-play
- wing rail
- wingsail
- wing sauce
- wing-shell
- wing shooter
- wingshooting
- wing-shot
- wingspan
- wingspot
- wingspread
- wingstroke
- wingsuit
- wing surfing
- wing surfing
- wingtip
- wing trimmer
- wing walker
- wing walking
- wing wall
- wing warping
- wingwoman
- wingy
- with leaden wings
- wyngz
- x-wing
- y-wing
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Verb
[edit]wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (colloquial) wung)
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (intransitive) To fly.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- (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.
- (transitive) To throw.
- Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 62:
- Deep folly! yet that this could be—
That I could wing my will with might
To leap the grades of life and light,
And flash at once, my friend, to thee: […]
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
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Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wing1
- Yale: wīng
- Cantonese Pinyin: wing1
- Guangdong Romanization: wing1
- Sinological IPA (key): /wɪŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Adjective
[edit]wing
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, of person) intoxicated; tipsy
Synonyms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]wing
- Alternative form of winge
Tok Pisin
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[edit]wing
Vilamovian
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Adjective
[edit]wing
- little (by amount)
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wing
- (figurative) cross
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Vour-wing leet.
- Four cross roads.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78
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