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Home Dictionary Name: long windedLong winded
Long breathed hence tediously long in speaking consuming much time as a long winded talker...
Long breathed
Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time long winded...
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
Voluntary winding up and winding up by the court
Voluntary winding up and winding up by the court, the expressions 'voluntary winding up' and 'winding up by the Court' have acquired a technical meaning in our Company and Insurance jurisprudence. Like the Co-operative Society Laws, the Companies Act and the Insurance Act also make a distinction between the cessation of business by a company and its voluntary winding up or winding up by an order of the Court. There is nothing unequivocal in s. 15(a) of the Act to show that Parliament intended to depart from the technical meaning of 'voluntary winding up' and 'winding up by the Court' and to bid a good-bye to the distinction in our Company and Insurance jurisprudence between mere cessation of business by a company and its voluntary winding up or winding up by an order of the Court. The phrase 'voluntarily wound up' in the first limb would mean the voluntary winding up of an insurance public company in accordance with s. 54 of the Insurance Act, The Neptune Assurance Co. Ltd.v. Union of ...
wind up
wind up wound up wind·ing up : to bring to an end by taking care of unfinished business [ordered to wind up his practice] ;specif : to conclude by removing liabilities and distributing any remaining assets to partners or shareholders [wind up the business and affairs of a corporation in dissolution] [wind up a receivership] ...
Eridanus
A long winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar...
Longspun
Spun out or extended to great length hence long winded tedious...
Roller coaster
An amusement railroad of varying design in which open cars coast by gravity over a long winding track in a closed circuit with steep pitches and ascents and in some cases loops in which the cars are briefly upside down typically the cars are pulled by a chain device to the top of the first peak after which gravity and momentum provide the only propulsive forces In some cases the cars are suspended from a monorail rather than resting on a track and such cars may be made to swing outward at an angle near to the horizontal It is a popular amusement at many amusement parks but is sufficiently frightening to some people that they refuse to ride in one...
Drum winding
A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder distinguished from ring winding etc...
Series winding
A winding in which the armature coil and the field magnet coil are in series with the external circuits opposed to shunt winding...
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