wing

1. 1

   An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.countableuncountable

   • The bird was flapping its wings
2. 2

   A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.countableuncountable

3. 3

   Human arm.countableslanguncountable

4. 4

   Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.countableuncountable

   • I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
5. 5

   One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.countableuncountable

6. 6

   One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.countableuncountable

7. 7

   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.countableuncountable

8. 8

   Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.countableuncountable

9. 9

   A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.countableuncountable

10. 10

    Passage by flying; flight.countableuncountable

    • to take wing

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1. 1

   To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.transitive

2. 2

   To fly.intransitive

   • Birds are winging, no rain is falling from a heavy sky
3. 3

   To travel swiftly.intransitive

   • He had pulled up so expertly that the man escaped, so smoothly that not a passenger was jarred, and now he sat with a dazed and vacant expression on his face, leaning forward on his steering wheel, while caustic inquiry and retort winged un
4. 4

   To add a wing (extra part) to.transitive

5. 5

   To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.transitive

   • I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
6. 6

   To throw.transitive

7. 7

   To furnish with wings.transitive

8. 8

   To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.transitive

   • ⁠Deep folly! yet that this could be— ⁠That I could wing my will with might ⁠To leap the grades of life and light, And flash at once, my friend, to thee: […]
9. 9

   To traverse by flying.transitive