windupとは

名詞

windup ‎(複数形 windups)

1. The act of ending or concluding something.
2. The last part of something; a conclusion.
3. (Britain) A practical joke or tease.
4. (baseball) The act of preparing for a certain style of pitching.

形容詞

windup ‎(not comparable)

1. Operated by a coiled spring that is wound by hand.

参考

• wind up

アナグラム

• upwind

名詞

wind up (複数形 wind ups)

1. Alternative form of wind-up

動詞

wind up (三人称単数 現在形 winds up, 現在分詞 winding up, 過去形および過去分詞形 wound up)

1. (literally) To wind completely.

   I wound up the spool of rope.

2. To end up; to arrive or result.
   • 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     The Hound’s afraid to go in. Maybe he’s afraid the occupants will tell on him, but Beric points out that there’s no smoke in the chimney or livestock in the yard, so it’s probably deserted. It’s not. Inside are the decaying corpses of the farmer and his little girl, in bed together with a knife on the floor. Beric CSIs that they were starving to death, so the man ended the suffering for both of them. And they might not have wound up that way if they hadn’t met the Hound.

   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

   I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.

3. To conclude, complete, or finish.

   Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.

4. To tighten by winding or twisting.

   Your pocket watch will run for a long time if you wind up the spring all the way.

5. To put (a clock, a watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion, by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     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.

6. To excite.

   Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.

7. (Britain) To play a prank, to take the mickey or mock.

   Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?

8. To dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets.
9. (baseball) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.

派生語

• snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches
• wind up one's bottoms

アナグラム

• upwind

別の表記

• windup

名詞

wind-up ‎(複数形 wind-ups)

1. The end or conclusion of something.

   Everyone is invited to our end-of-term wind-up party.

2. A punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
3. (Britain) A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
   • 1999, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (film):

     "Is this a wind-up, or what?" "No, no, it's true. He can really do it."

4. (baseball) The phase of a making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
   • 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie)

     He's into his wind-up. Here comes the pitch. Strike on the inside corner!

派生語

• wind-up merchant

関連する語

• wind up

同意語

• See also Wikisaurus:joke

形容詞

wind-up ‎(not comparable)

1. (of a machine) Needing to be wound up in order to function.
   • 1997, Daria (TV, episode 1.07):

     Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.

アナグラム

• upwind