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Look up: wing

  1. Wing
    Wing is a city in Burleigh County North Dakota, USA Wing is a township in Burleigh County North Dakota, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Wing
    Wing is slang for to throw away.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Wing
    The wing of the aircraft is the large horizontal surface which produces the lift and allows the craft to fly.
    Found on http://www.in-miniature.co.uk/glossary.a

  4. wing
    [n] - a unit of military aircraft 2. [n] - the wing of a fowl 3. [n] - a stage area out of sight of the audience 4. [n] - one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane 5. [n] - a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Wing
    Two or three flats hinged together and used at the side of the stage to mask offstage space.
    Found on http://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/technica

  6. Wing
    In motorsport, a synonym for aerofoil. Shaped like and aircraft wing, and attached to a sprung part of the car upside-down for creating downforce and displaying sponsors names!
    Found on http://www.f1nutter.co.uk/tech/glossary.

  7. wing
    the horizontal valving on a tree.
    Found on http://www.workover.co.uk/og/w.htm

  8. Wing
    A surface that has an airfoil cross-section and is used to generate lift. See also: Aerofoil, Aircraft, Fuselage, Wing Warping.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  9. Wing
    The main lifting surface of an aeroplane.
    Found on http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/glossary

  10. wing
    1)trawl, seine: tapered net section extending forward from one side of the main body of the net; 2)ring net, beach seine: net section at each end of the net; 3)purse seine: tapered net section (s) at the opposite end from the bunt Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • the narrow straight sides of a trawlnet Category: agriculture, fisheries, forest...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  11. Wing
    Part of a building subsidiary to its main body.Related Words: Aisle
    Found on http://www.maintainyourchurch.org.uk/Too

  12. Wing
    Wing noun [ Middle English winge , wenge ; probably of Scand. origin; confer Dan. & Swedish vinge , Icelandic vængr .] 1. One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/41

  13. Wing
    Wing transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Winged ; present participle & verbal noun Winging .] 1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity. « Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms.» Pope. « Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours.»
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/41

  14. Wing
    Wing noun (Aëronautics) Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, whether by edge-on motion, or flapping, or rotation; specif., either of a pair of supporting planes of a flying machine.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/41

  15. wing
    <plant biology> A membranous expansion of a fruit or seed, which aids dispersal, a thin flange of tissue extended beyond the normal outline of a stem or petiole, a lateral petal of a flower in the family Fabaceae. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  16. wing
    noun a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  17. wing
    noun one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  18. wing
    noun the wing of a fowl; `he preferred the drumsticks to the wings`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  19. wing
    noun a unit of military aircraft
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  20. wing
    noun a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  21. wing
    backstage noun a stage area out of sight of the audience
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. Wing
    A `wing` is a surface used to produce lift and therefore flight, for travel in the air or another gaseous medium. The wing shape is usually an airfoil. The first use of the word was for the foremost limbs of birds, but has been extended to include the wings of insects, bats and pterosaurs and also man-made devices. A wing is a device for generating lift. Its `aerodynamic quality`, expressed as a Lift-to-drag ratio, can be up to 60 on some glide...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing

  23. WinG
    In computing, `WinG` (pronounced `Win Gee`) was an API to provide faster graphics performance on Windows 3.1. WinG included API calls such as `CreateDIBSection`, `SetDIBColorTable`, `BitBlt`, and `StretchBlt`. WinG out-of-the-box support (i.e. as a separate API to Win32) was dropped in Windows 98 Second Edition (which integrated DirectX 6), as it did absolutely nothing but pass through to the Win32 APIs that it was wrapping. WinG DLLs were some...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinG

  24. Wing
    • (n.) Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, whether by edge-on motion, or flapping, or rotation; specif., either of a pair of supporting planes of a flying machine. • (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater. • (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fle...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  25. wing
    (from the article `Fabales`) ...flower provides an example. It has a large petal at the top, called the banner, or standard, that develops outside of the others before the flower ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/42


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