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upwind
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. towards the side exposed to wind [syn: weather(a) ] adv. toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn: leeward ] [ant: windward , windward ] in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: against the wind ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also up-wind , 1838, from up (adv.) + wind (n.1). Originally a nautical term. As an adjective from 1892.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
upwind \up"wind`\, a. being or moving in the direction from which the wind is blowing.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A male moth flies upwind to a scent, and it goes through a very complicated repertoire to do it.
Usage examples of upwind.
Despite the good wind Biter was slow, and the East Indies man was moving upwind slower yet.
We packed our biological agents in small melon-sized metal balls, called bomblets, set to explode several miles upwind from the target city.
As the Red Lion swung upwind to port, the wall of fire moved as if to keep itself between the carack and the fleeing galley.
I asked as I watched a fumarole just upwind of where we trembled in a near-hover.
It was upwind of the stench of the Honeypot, and it was a nicer place to live.
But if rafts with centreboards could sail upwind, de Bisschop argued, they could have conveyed Polynesians from west to east.
Conan judged that he was upwind of the main body of the Picts and that the breeze would hide any slight noises he made.
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.
Reaching the small park behind the Supreme Court building, he found a bench that was upwind of the lumpy vagrants sleeping in the bushes, spread out his paper, and scanned the Metro section.
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.
Ahead, a fair-sized building looked like it might be Admin. The warm air smelled good-whatever the trees or brush was, growing green to the left of her, upwind, she liked it.
By rights ye ought to go upwind and beat the bushes, to flush the game toward me.
But now he wondered how many of his erstwhile hosts were left in London, or how the young men might manage to gather together, if they were still so inclined, and worst yet, what the dining might be like in the upstairs room of the Black Friar pub, which was near Blackfriars Bridge and just upwind of the Thames.
That, Gilliland had explained, was because the wind put more pressure on the long stick than on the cylinder head, and so the tubes had to be aimed down-wind for an upwind target.
Her gas was apparent from more than a few feet away and Frex moved, as discreetly as possible, to be upwind.