Wind vs. Breeze

Wind vs. Breeze — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Wind and Breeze

Windnoun

Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.

The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.The winds in Chicago are fierce.

Breezenoun

A light, gentle wind.

The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.

Windnoun

Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

the wind of a cannon ball;the wind of a bellows

Breezenoun

(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.

Windnoun

The ability to breathe easily.

After the second lap he was already out of wind.The fall knocked the wind out of him.

Breezenoun

(cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.

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Windnoun

News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)

Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.

Breezenoun

Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.

Windnoun

One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).

Breezenoun

An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.

The discovery produced a breeze.

Windnoun

Flatus.

Eww. Someone just passed wind.

Breezenoun

A brief workout for a racehorse.

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Windnoun

Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

Breezenoun

A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.

Windnoun

(music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.

Breezeverb

To move casually, in a carefree manner.

Windnoun

A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".

Breezeverb

(weather) To blow gently.

Windnoun

Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.

Breezeverb

To take a horse under a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.

Windnoun

A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

Breezeverb

(intransitive) To buzz.

Windnoun

Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

Breezenoun

a slight wind (usually refreshing);

the breeze was cooled by the lakeas he waited he could feel the air on his neck

Windnoun

A bird, the dotterel.

Breezenoun

any undertaking that is easy to do;

marketing this product will be no picnic

Windnoun

The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.

Breezeverb

blow gently and lightly;

It breezes most evenings at the shore

Windnoun

The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

Breezeverb

to proceed quickly and easily

Windverb

(transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

Windverb

(transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.

The boxer was winded during round two.

Windverb

(reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.

I can’t run another step — I’m winded.

Windverb

(British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.

Windverb

(transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

Windverb

(transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.

The hounds winded the game.

Windverb

(transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.

Windverb

(transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.

Windverb

(transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.

to wind thread on a spool or into a ball

Windverb

(transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.

Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.

Windverb

To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

Windverb

(ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.

Vines wind round a pole.The river winds through the plain.

Windverb

To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

Windverb

To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

Windverb

To cover or surround with something coiled about.

to wind a rope with twine

Windverb

To make a winding motion.

Windnoun

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure;

trees bent under the fierce windswhen there is no wind, rowthe radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere

Windnoun

a tendency or force that influences events;

the winds of change

Windnoun

breath;

the collision knocked the wind out of him

Windnoun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

that's a lot of winddon't give me any of that jazz

Windnoun

an indication of potential opportunity;

he got a tip on the stock marketa good lead for a job

Windnoun

a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

Windnoun

a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

Windnoun

the act of winding or twisting;

he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind

Windverb

to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;

the river winds through the hillsthe path meanders through the vineyardssometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body

Windverb

extend in curves and turns;

The road winds around the lake

Windverb

wrap or coil around;

roll your hair around your fingerTwine the thread around the spool

Windverb

catch the scent of; get wind of;

The dog nosed out the drugs

Windverb

coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem;

wind your watch

Windverb

form into a wreath

Windverb

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;

hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car