| 单词 | winding |
| 释义 | winding (once / 384 pages) nadj Use the adjective winding to describe something with twists and turns, like a winding country road or a little winding mountain stream. A path through the woods that has plenty of bends and curves in it is winding, and a river that curls and meanders down to the sea is also winding. The Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road" describes a twisting, indirect road. Winding has an Old English root, the word windan, which means "to turn, twist, or wind." WORD FAMILYwinding: self-winding, windingly, windings+/unwind: unwinded, unwinding, unwinds, unwound/wind: unwind, winded, winder, winding, windless, winds, windy/winded: windedest, windedly/winder: winders/windless: windlessly, windlessness/windy: windier, windiest, windily, windiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe three longtime teammates reminisced about their winding road to this point, from the first U.S. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) Barkley called a loss in his first start a minor stumbling block after what seemed a winding road to making any starts. Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) Though her Penn State career is winding down, Krupa is still up to her old tricks. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1n the act of winding or twisting Syn|Hyper twist, wind rotary motion, rotation the act of rotating as if on an axis 2adj marked by repeated turns and bends winding roads are full of surprises Syn tortuous, twisting, twisty, voluminous crooked having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned 3adj of a path e.g. a winding country road Syn meandering, rambling, wandering indirect not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination |
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