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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Residents who lived downwind from the explosion were evacuated. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He approached from downwind , forcing the flames to pause against the blast from his rotors. ▪ He drops me off downwind of the motel. ...
Wikipedia
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Downwind is an album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong , issued in February, 1979 (see 1979 in music ). Like the other Pierre Moerlen's Gong albums, Downwind is predominantly jazz fusion and has little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen 's Gong, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 in the same direction as the wind is blowing 2 (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
downwind \down"wind\ adj. on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey. Opposite of upwind , and windward . Syn: lee(prenominal), ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. towards the side away from the wind [syn: lee(a) ] adv. in the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew downwind" [syn: with the wind ] [ant: upwind ] away from the wind; "they were sailing windward" [syn: windward ] [ant: leeward , leeward ]
Usage examples of downwind.
New Atlantan Feed had a higher sulfur content that, when burned, produced a plutonic reek that permeated everything for dozens of miles downwind, making the fires seem much closer than they really were.
Portsmouth OH reports four kilograms of enriched uranium hexafluoride missing and then suffers a cataclysmic fire that forces evacuation of six downwind counties.
Four oxen lumbered freely in a makeshift corral ten paces downwind from the camp.
Waddell told him to get all the civilians away from the house, to establish the downwind danger area, and to get everyone out of that sector for five miles.
Mantau, Amsel hunched over and the whole time clouds, while Senta upwind, the gulls downwind, the dikes bare to the horizon, while the sun is gone gone gone -- he finds his pocketknife.
Starkey thought he had probably grown up downwind of one of the meatpacking plants up there.
The city whirled around Corporal Buggy Swires as he gripped even harder with his knees, and then he swung the bird downwind and it landed with a staggering run on the top of the Tower of Art, the highest building in the city.
The catamaran hadnot been traveling downwind, of course, but at an angle to it that would provide maximum speed.
Then he pointed downwind, toward a headland maybe three hundred meters away, a sandy rise thickly furred with bladdermoss and scrubby yellow-leaved anglepod bushes.
At the full stretch of my body and the stick I stuck the last two bamboos into the snow, one upwind, the other downwind from the central bamboo, and described horizontal flailing circles round both of these.
Now with the sea anchor in place, it was the brash ice and bergy bergs that were floating downwind faster than they were, and knocking against the windward hull, even as the leeward hull still slammed against a thickening ice mass.
Every plane that boltered was vectored downwind and turned into the landing pattern again with at least a five-mile straightaway on final approach.
In the event of a conflict, the gunship would be in perfect position to sail downwind toward the dromons blocking the harbor.
Nine miles downwind in the town of Aliquippa, Sternglass found a twenty-year high in infant-mortality rates.
They were downwind of the raboons and so beat a retreat in silence.