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The correct spelling is wing.
How to pronounce wing
/wɪŋ/
nounIPA: /wɪŋ/
Say it like: Win-g
The correct spelling is wing. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish For example: "to take wing"
Usage Examples
“to take wing”
“the west wing of the hospital”
“Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- 2.Human arm.
- 3.Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- 4.One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- 5.One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
verb
- 1.To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- 2.To fly.
- 3.(of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- 4.To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- 5.To throw.
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