Meaning: wind

Illustrative Context

She felt the wind in her face.

Disambiguation

The weather noun wind /wɪnd/, not the unrelated English homograph, the verb to wind (up) /waind/.

Target Sense

• The most generic noun for wind as a weather word.
• Avoid all narrower terms, in any sense, including:
  • Lexemes that denote winds explicitly light or strong (e.g. breeze, gale).
  • Lexemes specific to types of wind (onshore/offshore, upslope/downslope, daytime/nighttime, whirlwinds, etc.), strengths of wind (gale, hurricane), temperatures or moisture of wind (cold/warm, moist/dry e.g. scirocco) and so on.
  • Lexemes that are the names of winds from specific directions or in specific geographical contexts (e.g. Föhn, Mistral, trade(s), easterly, Zephyr). Even if one of these may be the dominant form of wind for speakers of a given language, the more general term for any type of wind should be entered instead.
• Some languages may not have a dedicated wind lexeme distinct from air. This is not necessarily an issue, if this overarching lexeme is clearly the default term used when context makes it clear that the sense is specifically wind as ‘moving air’.
• The target sense is the literal weather word. Avoid lexemes that are predominantly extensions, including figurative uses, of the ‘wind’ as representing speed, impermanence, obstruction or aid in travel, etc..