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windup::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | closing, completion, culmination, mop up |
| Type of | ending, conclusion, termination |
| Has types | finalisation, finalization, finishing, follow-through, graduation, finish, consummation |
| Derivation | wind up |
| Type | Words |
|---|
windup toys.
Examples of windup
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He refined a long windup, allowing for a more spring-loaded, consistent release.
From the usatoday.com
Spurrier wants to refine his mechanics and eliminate the windup in his delivery.
From the thestate.com
London's Freeplay Energy Group, for example, has helped pioneer the windup radio.
From the businessweek.com
She began farming out her windup radios and flashlights to friends and neighbors.
From the chron.com
After a slow windup, all the various plots come to a fast, satisfying conclusion.
From the dailyherald.com
The change had Greinke raising his glove to a consistent height on his windup.
From the kansas.com
Muscle memory took me through the windup, and I somehow got it over the plate.
From the dailynews.com
He took a short windup and hurled a high, arcing pitch that Zimmerman speared.
From the bostonherald.com
The windup last week took place in Chicago's all-but-unplayable Soldier Field.
From the time.com
- Completion: a concluding action
- Windup(a): operated by a mechanism; "windup toys"
- In baseball, there are two legal pitching positions: the windup, and the set. Each type of pitching position has its strengths and weaknesses. ...
- The act of ending or concluding something; The last part of something; a conclusion; A practical joke or tease; (UK) To convince somebody that something is true, especially when it is not, often for humorous purposes; Operated by a coiled spring that is wound by hand
- (Wind-ups) A term often used interchangeably for both clockwork and spring-driven toys; the former offers superior quality and length of activation. Thirty minutes versus the two to three minutes for the coil or barrel spring mechanism.
- In some forms of ongoing pain, the spinal cord and brain receive pain signals over a considerable period of time. There can be adaptation by the spinal cord that results in the incoming pain signal becoming amplified in a phenomenon known as windup pain. ...
- Gradual acceleration leading up to an all-out sprint.
- This refers to a type of fan that ran off a spring. They could be wound up, and run for a period of time.
- Or windup can refer to:
