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Wing

noun

1.

A movable organ for flying (one of a pair).

2.

One of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane.

3.

A stage area out of sight of the audience. Synonyms: backstage, offstage.

4.

A unit of military aircraft.

5.

The side of military or naval formation. Synonym: flank.

6.

A hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side.

7.

(in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft.

8.

A group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function.

9.

The wing of a fowl.

10.

A barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud. Synonym: fender.

11.

An addition that extends a main building. Synonyms: annex, annexe, extension.

verb

(past & past part. winged; pres. part. winging)

1.

Travel through the air; be airborne. Synonym: fly.

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"Wing" Quotes from Famous Books

... in beak and claw." On land and in sea the animal creation chase and maim, and slay and devour each other. The beautiful swallow on the wing devours the equally beautiful gnat. The graceful flying-fish, like a fair white bird, goes glancing above the blue magnificence of the tropical seas. His flight is one of terror; he is pursued by the ravenous dolphin. The ichneumon-fly lays its eggs ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

... about them in adventure books; they always come with storms, and sailors think they build their nests on the wave. But they don't, Jack, so you mustn't think so. They make burrows in the sand, and all day they are out on the wing, picking up what the storms toss to the top, and what the cooks throw overboard, and then they go home, miles and miles and miles at night, and feed their young. They don't take the trouble to make houses if they ...

— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... flight in the poet, bearing on his wing the reader, whom he ushers to new, sudden vistas, is a test of poetic genius. Some poets never carry you to heights, but rather make you feel while reading them as if you were moving through shut-in valleys: their verse wants sky. They are not poetically ...

— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert

... section of the shoulder and fore-limb (wing) of a chick-embryo of the fourth day, magnified about twenty times. Beside the medullary tube we can see on each side three clear streaks in the dark dorsal wall, which advance into the rudimentary fore-limb or wing (e). The uppermost of them ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel

... 'influence trade.' His tone of voice after this was subdued. As Caper happened to brush against some plaster coming in the studio, Chapin hastened to brush it from his coat, and he did it as if it were the down on the wing ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

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