winding meaning

NounPLwindingsSUF-ing
1. something wound around something else.
Verb
1. present participle of wind.
AdjectiveCOMmore windingSUPmost winding
1. twisting, turning or sinuous.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - 1786, Fig. 10. The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi.
  - The winding streams and hanging hills repeat / Loud groans from ev'ry herd, from ev'ry fold / Complaintive murmurs; heaps on heaps they fall, / There where they fall they lie, corrupt and rot.
  - He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - The grandfather clock keeps going for over a week without winding.

Meaning of winding for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "winding" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Adjectives
2. Morphemes
  - Suffixes
    - Words by suffix
      - Words suffixed with -ing
3. Nouns
  - Countable nouns
  - Singularia tantum
    - Uncountable nouns
4. Verbs
  - Verb forms
    - Participles
      - Present participles

Difficultness: Level 2

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Definiteness: Level 5

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