wing

Meanings

Plural: wings

Noun

• a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
• one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
• a stage area out of sight of the audience
• a unit of military aircraft
• the side of military or naval formation
• a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
• (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
• a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
  • "they are the progressive wing of the Republican Party"
• the wing of a fowl
  • "he preferred the drumsticks to the wings"
• a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
  • "in Britain they call a fender a wing"
• an addition that extends a main building
• An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
• A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
• Human arm.
• Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
• One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
• One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
• 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.
• Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
• A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
• Passage by flying; flight.
• Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
• A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
• One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
• Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
• Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
• A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
• An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
• A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
• A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
• An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
• A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
• An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
• A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
• A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
• A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
• That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
• A position in several field games on either side of the field.
• A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
• A háček.
• One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
• The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
• A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
• On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.

Verb

• travel through the air; be airborne
• To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
• To fly.
• To add a wing (extra part) to.
• To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
• To throw.
• To furnish with wings.
• To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
• To traverse by flying.

Synonyms

annex, annexe, backstage, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, delta, dump, extension, feck, fender, flank, fling, fly, forward, garrison, guard, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, offstage, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing