wind up

v. twist a knob in order to make something run (e.g. a watch, toy, clock, etc.) up; end, be finished (e.g. a meeting); finish something, bring something to a close (e.g a project, meeting); reach a certain state or course of action because of something else

Wind-up or windup can refer to:a verb for terminating the existence of a company with a view to its liquidation and dissolutionthe windup is one of the two legal pitching positions in baseballWind-up Records, a New York record labelWind It Up (Rewound), an album by The Prodigy.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a novela Wind up radioa noun in UK English slang meaning a pranka verb, meaning to conclude (see winding-up)a verb, meaning to excitea verb, meaning to tighten a spring powered mechanical device, such as a music box or clockwork toyWind Up, a song by Foo FightersWind-Up, a song by Jethro Tull off their 1971 album Aqualungintegral windup in a PID controllera term used in the design of hard disk drives: "The application of physical vibration or shock to the drive chassis or internally generated vibration or shock to the HDA itself tends to cause positioning errors in the servo system. These disturbances may be introduced by, for example, spindle imbalance forces, external shock and vibration, as well as a self-induced shock mount/HDA resonance excitation known to those skilled in the art as windup." United States Patent 5,426,545 [1]
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Verb
1. finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
(synonym) finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, finish
(hypernym) act, move
(derivation) completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
2. give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
(hypernym) swing
(classification) baseball, baseball game, ball
3. stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
(synonym) arouse, sex, excite, turn on
(hypernym) stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
(hyponym) tempt
4. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
(synonym) wind
(hypernym) tighten, fasten
(entail) turn

bring or come to an end, finish, stop The meeting wound up about midnight and we were able to go home.

Synonyms and related words:
abort, button up, cap, carry to completion, cease, charge, clean up, climax, close, close out, close up, cock, complete, conclude, crown, culminate, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, get up steam, halt, load, mop up, perfect, perorate, prime, resolve, round out, scrap, scratch, set, steam up, stop, terminate, top off, top out, warm up, wind, wrap up