Wing
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.
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 in running or swimming.
Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
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.
One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
To supply with wings or sidepieces.
To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
To move through in flight; to fly through.
To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
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Wing Quotations
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Aeschylus
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Joshua Chamberlain
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.
Julius Erving
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Thom Yorke
The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
Martin Sheen
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Helmut Newton
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
Al Franken
Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.
Mario Lemieux
No, I do not identify with the right wing.
Tom Metzger
If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
Tom Metzger
In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.
Tom Metzger
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Christopher Lasch
Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.
Donella Meadows
So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.
Howard Dean
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
Jason Isaacs
Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.
Klaus Fuchs
We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
James P. Hoffa
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
James Earl Jones
By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
Danica McKellar
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Wing Translations
wing in Afrikaans is vleuel
wing in Danish is vinge
wing in Dutch is vleugel, vlerk
wing in Latin is penna
wing in Norwegian is vinge
wing in Portuguese is asa
wing in Spanish is accla, ala
wing in Swedish is eskader, flygel, vinge
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