WINGSPREAD

wingspan, wingspread

(noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil

wingspread

(noun) distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

wingspread (plural wingspreads)

The distance between the extreme tips of the wings of a bird, insect or aircraft.

Anagrams

• perswading, spreadwing

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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