wing

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The part about flight seemed to me at first very good, but as the wing is articulated by a ball-and-socket joint, I suspect the Duke would find it very difficult to give any reason against the belief that the wing strikes the air more or less obliquely.

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  1. noun One of a pair of movable organs for flying, as the feather-covered modified forelimb of a bird or the skin-covered modified digits of the forelimb of a bat.
  2. noun Any of usually four membranous organs for flying that extend from the thorax of an insect.
  3. noun A winglike organ or structure used for flying, as the folds of skin of a flying squirrel or the enlarged pectoral fin of a flying fish.
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  • In another wing were the vid studios sectioned into units that operated and repaired vid and sound systems, viewed, edited, and “supplemented” vids with complete sound stages and computer animation facilities. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • And in one section of this wing was the School of Arts Library, which the Somers had joined. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • To classicists, a wing is the only good option, but to me, it looks kind of pompous and costumey - on anyone, including Hercule Poirot, but especially on me. —  Esquire.com Article Feed
  • I don't know why they dont just play Wilshere, hes good enough, denilson on the wing is a bit imbalanced —  WordPress.com News
  • This wing is the largest museum building ever designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

feather ·  leg ·  arm ·  tail ·  cloud ·  bird ·  wave ·  ring ·  light ·  shape ·  tower ·  limb

Used in the same contextWord Family

wing:   wings ·  winged ·  winging
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wenge, winge, of Scandinavian origin; see wē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also weng; from Middle English winge, wenge, also (with intrusive h) hwinge, whenge, from Icelandic vængr = Swedish Danish vinge, a wing. The Anglo-Saxon word for ‘wing’ was fether; cf. Latin penna, Greek πτερόν, wing, from the same ult. source: see feather and pen.
  2. from wing, n.
 

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