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updraft
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Word definitions for updraft in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also updraught , "rising air current," 1909, from up (adj.) + draft (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. an upward current of air, especially a strong one n. an upward current of air, especially a strong one
Usage examples of updraft.
Demon Mark hesitated, torn between the fast-unraveling aetheric updraft and the less powerful but more certain warmth of my body.
There had been no Deathbird re-con flyovers, but he attributed that to the unpredictable down and updrafts swirling among the peaks of the Bitterroot Range.
It found an updraft and drifted with it, wings spread and motionless, then paused in front of him, floating, a white beautiful set of wings, a sardonic cynical head with downcurved mouth and expressionless inspecting eyes.
Light and Darkness we were heading unsteadily westward through the updrafts of the Rockfish Gap when the com pinged.
He gave Avatre the signal to send her in that directionwhich was, in any case, a safer one than allowing her to head in the one she wanted, which was to try the thermals and updrafts of Royal Hill.
Her skill was such that the maddening surges of crosswinds and updrafts only bounced her a little where any other pilot would have been battered.
In the right conditions, storm clouds can rise to heights of six to ten miles and contain updrafts and downdrafts of one hundred miles an hour.
Silhouetted against the scudding clouds, a few dragonets and condors soared on the updrafts.
Furbetrance bucked in the first hot updrafts over Hiding Lands, the memories returned to him.
They lunged and soared, using familiar updrafts and hiding places to confound the targeting computers, stinging their targets like deadly insects.
The ocean updrafts, the air currents like sea currents, carrying this great, great winged ship.
First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward, and then it blows back into the tank and *boom*, the fartmobile is in one billion shards, rising like a parachute in an updraft.
Another stir of movement in the middle distance caught her eye: a free cloak, seemingly riding an updraft over a fixed point.
He was over the upper half of the golf range, the really tough holes which sat on the lower shoulder of the hill, when the updraft hit him.
By processing signals from five gyroscopes, an inertial guidance system, and a radar altimeter, the hover coupler literally took over the fine adjustments of pitch for both main and tail rotors, allowing the Pave Low to correct instantly for pitch, roll, yaw, and the effects of unexpected updrafts, downdrafts, crosswinds, and even the jolting change in weight as troops exited the aircraft.