wing
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Is wing a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of wing?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.Examples: "The bird was flapping its wings"countableuncountable
2. (slang) Human arm.countableslanguncountable
3. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.Examples: "I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing."countableuncountable
4. (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.countableuncountable
5. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.countableuncountable
6. (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.Examples: "They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him"Multicultural-London-Englishabbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.transitive
2. (intransitive) To fly.Examples: "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."intransitive
3. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.transitive
4. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.Examples: "I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting."transitive
5. (transitive) To throw.Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashtransitive
6. (transitive) To furnish with wings.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary