Definition von wind-up im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- needing to be wound up in order to function
Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.
- A joke, an attempt to fool someone or to make them angry
Is this a wind-up, or what? No, no, it's true. He can really do it..
- the part of a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball
He's into his wind-up. Here comes the pitch. Strike on the inside corner!.
- The end or conclusion of something
Everyone come to our end-of-the-term wind-up party.
- A punch line of a joke or comedy routine
- A wind-up device is a mechanical device with a handle or key that you turn several times before you use it in order to make it work. an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone
- A wind-up is a joke or trick in which someone deliberately tells you something untrue in order to annoy you. At first I couldn't believe it. I thought it was a wind-up by one of my mates. relating to a machine or toy that you turn part of several times, in order to make it move or start working
- To conclude, complete, or finish
Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.
- To dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets
- To tighten by winding or twisting
Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.
- To end up; to arrive or result
I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.
- To excite
Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.
- To play a prank, to take the mickey or mock
Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?.
- A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue
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- Operated by a coiled spring that is wound by hand
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- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
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- give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
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- If you wind someone up, you deliberately say things which annoy them. This woman really wound me up. She kept talking over me. = annoy
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- {f} twist a knob in order to make something run (e.g. a watch, toy, clock, etc.) up; end, be finished (e.g. a meeting); finish something, bring something to a close (e.g a project, meeting); reach a certain state or course of action because of something else
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- stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
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- If you wind up in a particular place, situation, or state, you are in it at the end of a series of actions, events, or experiences, even though you did not originally intend to be. He could wind up in gaol Little did I know that I would actually wind up being on the staff Both partners of the marriage wound up unhappy. = finish up, end up
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- When someone winds up a business or other organization, they stop running it and close it down completely. The Bank of England seems determined to wind up the company
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- When you wind up an activity, you finish it or stop doing it. The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia
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- When you wind up something such as the window of a car, you make it move upwards by turning a handle. He started winding the window up but I grabbed the door and opened it. = roll up wind down
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- finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
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- If you wind someone up, you say untrue things in order to trick them. You're joking. Come on, you're winding me up. = kid see also wind 3, wind-up, wound up
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- {i} summary, conclusion, final part; movements a pitcher does in preparing to pitch the ball (Baseball)
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- To convince somebody that something is true, especially when it is not, often for humorous purposes
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- Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end
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- the last part of something; a conclusion
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- A practical joke or tease
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- a concluding action
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- the act of ending or concluding something
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- operated by a mechanism; "windup toys"