A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
whid
whid
noun
(obsolete) A word.
(obsolete, Scotland) A lie; a falsehood.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A quarrel.
A quick motion; a rapid, quiet movement, usually by small game.
verb
(obsolete, Scotland, intransitive) To tell a lie.
To move nimbly and with little noise, usually of small game.
wide
wide
adj
(Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
(Scotland, slang) Antagonistic, provocative.
(computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
(obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
(obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
Having a large physical extent from side to side.
Large in scope.
On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
adv
So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
away from or to one side of a given goal
completely
extensively
noun
(cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
widu
wied
wild
wild
adj
(electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
(mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
(nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
(slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
Enthusiastic.
Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
From or relating to wild creatures.
Furious; very angry.
Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
Unrestrained or uninhibited.
Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
adv
(of an audio recording) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
Inaccurately; not on target.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
(often jokingly in reference to sense 2.) civilization at large as opposed to contrived or laboratory conditions.
Alternative form of weald
The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
verb
(intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
(intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
wind
wind
noun
(boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
(countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
(countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
(music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
(uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
A bird, the dotterel.
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".
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
verb
(intransitive) To travel in a way that is not straight.
(transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
(transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
(transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
(transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
(transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
(transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
(transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
(transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
(transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
(transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
(transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
(transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
(transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
(transitive, Britain) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
(transitive, Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
(transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.