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  • 101wind — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German wint wind, Latin ventus, Greek aēnai to blow, Sanskrit vāti it blows Date: before 12th century 1. a. a natural movement of air of any velocity;… …

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  • 102Wind Horse — [ coat of arms of Mongolia.] The wind horse is an allegory for the human soul in the shamanistic tradition of Central Asia. In Tibetan buddhism, it was included as the pivotal element in the center of the four animals symbolizing the cardinal… …

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  • 103Wind controller — A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a wind synth or wind synthesizer , can loosely be defined as an electronic wind instrument. Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a saxophone though models have been produced that… …

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  • 104wind*/*/*/ — [wɪnd] noun I 1) [C/U] a natural current of air that moves fast enough for you to feel it A cold wind blew.[/ex] During the night the wind picked up (= got stronger).[/ex] The helicopter can t reach them until the wind drops (= becomes less… …

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  • 105Wind River Experimental Forest — The Wind River Experimental Forest is an ecological and silvicultural research in Stabler, Washington, in the United States. Founded in 1902 as a tree nursery, and functioning as an experimental forest since 1932, it is known as the cradle of… …

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  • 106Wind (band) — Infobox Musical artist Name = Wind Img capt = Img size = Landscape = Background = Alias = Origin = West Germany Years active = 1995 Label = Associated acts = URL = Current members = Andreas Lebbing Nastasja Markinovic Albert Oberloher Iris Criens …

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  • 107Wind at My Back — infobox television show name = Wind at My Back caption = format = Drama runtime = 60 minutes creator = Kevin Sullivan starring = Shirley Douglas, Kathy Greenwood country = flagicon|Canada Canada network = CBC first aired = 1996 last aired = 2001… …

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  • 108Wind of Change — The Wind of Change speech was a historically important address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa, on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town. He had spent a month in Africa visiting a number of British… …

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  • 109wind up — phrasal verb I UK [ˈwaɪnd ˌʌp] / US noun [countable] Word forms wind up : singular wind up plural wind ups American the act of preparing to pitch a baseball II Word forms wind up : present tense I/you/we/they wind up he/she/it winds up present… …

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  • 110wind — see when the wind is in the east, ’tis neither good for man nor beast April showers bring forth May flowers God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good north wind doth blow, we shall have snow …

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