Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of bringing something to an end.
- n. A concluding part; a conclusion.
- n. Baseball The movements of a pitcher, including the swinging back of the arm and the raising of the forward foot, preparatory to pitching the ball.
- adj. Operated by a spring that is wound up by hand.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The conclusion or final adjustment and settlement of any matter, as a speech, business, entertainment, etc.; the closing act; the close.
Wiktionary
- n. The end or conclusion of something.
- n. A punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
- n. A joke, an attempt to fool someone or to make them angry.
- n. baseball the part of a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
- adj. of a machine needing to be wound up in order to function.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
- v. finally be or do something
- v. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- v. stimulate sexually
- adj. operated by a mechanism
- n. a concluding action
Examples
“Magic touches everything, be it Colman's mustard merchandising with dragons and moustachioed magicians, or wind-up Cinderella dolls from the 1950s.”
“Your blog is a really a current day wind-up tool – always a source for a good laugh though. on February 13, 2009 at 4: 31 pm | Reply uniform”
“We had to add an external wind-up turntable to make it so the right half of your food wasn't cold.”
Microwaving Beats Boiling For Veggies | Lifehacker Australia
“Sarah Palin strikes me as a wind-up doll on Red Bull; incapable of original thought, she strings together one cliche 'after another into unintelligible sentences with just the right buzz words to get ignorant, Right-wing zealots shaking their heads like lemmings going off a cliff.”
“The Belgian bank's board was scheduled to meet on Saturday to decide on an orderly wind-up designed to avoid damaging France's triple-A and Belgium's double-A credit rating.”
The Wall Street Journal: Dexia Casts Long Shadow Over Europe
“Then, they gave out signed photographs of CC Sabathia doing the wind-up.”
“I wonder if anyone in the government even remembers why this data is so vital (seriously, per question 11, how many wind-up clocks are coming through customs nowadays).”
“At this point, Republican politicians are beginning to sound almost like wind-up toys when they complain about job-killing taxes and regulations that keep businesses from hiring.”
The Huffington Post: Dean Baker: Getting Those Republican Attacks Right
“But the more enjoyable spectacle was watching the froth gather at the mouths of the offended; it was a childish wind-up, childishly received.”
The Guardian: Wales join the queue to give England's divine right a real kicking | Kevin Mitchell
“Rio Ferdinand – defender, cheerleader, wind-up merchant – encouraged Danny Welbeck to turn his back to the away end at the final whistle and pointed triumphantly at his team-mate's shirt.”
The Guardian: David de Gea shrugs off his dodgy mantle to rise above the occasion
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