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WINDING

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Traducere în limba română

winding I. adjectiv

şerpuit, cu cotituri, sinuos; în spirală; întortocheat.

winding II. substantiv

1. cotitură, şerpuitură, sinuozitate, spirală.

2. (anat.) circumvoluţie

3. (electr.) bobinaj.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I went through the door in the corner and down the winding stair and along the dark passage to the old chapel.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Tell me Alleyne Edricson, he broke out, suddenly, as they clattered along the winding track which leads over the Bournemouth hills, has it not seemed to you that of late the Lady Maude is paler and more silent than is her wont?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The labour of winding among the little paths of the mountain and fixing my feet firmly as I advanced perplexed me, occupied as I was by the emotions which the occurrences of the day had produced.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now, the church which gives its name to the lane, stood in a less free situation at that time; there being no open space before it, and the lane winding down to the Strand.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Elizabeth longed to explore its windings; but when they had crossed the bridge, and perceived their distance from the house, Mrs. Gardiner, who was not a great walker, could go no farther, and thought only of returning to the carriage as quickly as possible.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

As soon as I dared I ran up the winding stair, and looked out of the window, which opened south. I thought I would watch for the Count, for there is something going on.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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