Crossword clues for leeway
leeway
- Latitude where returning fish change direction to go north
- Latitude of capsized small boat -- longitude coordinate ultimately pinning it?
- Room for manoeuvre
- Director to ponder, we hear, operating space?
- Elbow room?
- Space to maneuver
- Breathing room
- Room to move
- Manoeuvring space
- Room for choice
- Operational freedom
- Negotiator's need
- Margin of freedom or space
- Extra time
- Elbowroom
- Latitude
- Wiggle room
- Room to maneuver
- Allowing freedom to move within limits
- (of a ship or plane) sideways drift
- A permissible difference
- Room for action
- Margin for error
- Degree of freedom
- Margin of safety
- Wonder about interrupting line in play
- Some freedom allowed for fish picked up on route
- Set about reversing small scope for manoeuvre
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leeway \Lee"way`\ (l[=e]"w[=a]`), n. (Naut.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction. 2 A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom. 3 (context British English) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Leeway is the amount of drift motion to leeward of an object floating in the water caused by the component of the wind vector that is perpendicular to the object’s forward motion. The National Search and Rescue Supplement to the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual defines leeway as "the movement of a search object through water caused by winds blowing against exposed surfaces". However, the resultant total motion of an object is made up of the leeway drift and the movement of the upper layer of the ocean caused by the surface currents, tidal currents and ocean currents. Objects with a greater exposure to each element will experience more leeway drift and overall movement through the water than ones with less exposure.
A navigator or pilot on a vessel must adjust the ordered course to compensate for the leeway drift and more important set and drift, an all encompassing term for drift that includes the steering error of the vessel. Failure to make these adjustments during a voyage will yield poor navigational results. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator (1995) offers a comprehensive free guide to navigation principles.
An object can be classified as either an active object like a ship navigating through a waterway or a passive object like a liferaft, drifting debris, or a person in the water (PIW) (Figure 3). A passive object will experience the greatest leeway drift and it is this drift that is of utmost importance to those involved in search and rescue (SAR) upon inland waterways and open oceans.
Leeway is a crossover thrash band formed in Astoria, New York, USA in 1984 by guitarist A.J. Novello and vocalist Eddie Sutton under the name The Unruled. They played alongside groups such as Crumbsuckers, Prong, Ludichrist, Bad Brains, and Sick of It All at the predominantly hardcore punk-oriented CBGB venue, and had metal influences from the start. Guitarist and songwriter A.J. Novello said:
The fact that the band experimented with sound, had two guitarists riffing and solo-ing between them and the singer dressed in skeleton outfits and Yankees uniforms also set them out from the rest of the hardcore punk scene.
In November, 1987 they entered the Normandy Sound studio in Warren, Rhode Island and recorded their first album, Born to Expire. However, due to delays and postponements, the album was not released until January, 1989. Three follow-ups ensued – Desperate Measures, Adult Crash, and Open Mouth Kiss – before the band split in 1996. There was a short lived reunion in 2006 which saw the band playing again,most notably with the Bad Brains, at CBGB and a European Festival tour, which was the last time the band performed live.
Their song "Enforcer" was featured on the playlist of the radio show "L.C.H.C" in the game GTA IV in 2008.
Usage examples of "leeway".
Rationing can do something about that, but not enough to give us a lot of leeway, and we have no idea when someone may find us.
I found someone, not with much force, but it gave me leeway to start fighting back.
No question, he was allowing us more leeway with a case against a woman than he would tolerate in a case against a man.
Moy studied me for a moment, obviously trying to decide how much leeway he could afford to give me.
Sometimes, depending on the judge, you can get a bit of leeway on these matters, especially in a case as serious as this one.
Fortunately, they could not make the extra yard or two of leeway he had.
Except for the possible leeway implied here, no reference was made to the Communists.
He had leeway of only three days for stops at Kunming, at Y-force headquarters at Paoshan, at Myitkyina and at Ramgarh to say goodbye privately to old companions.
In the past neither he nor she had ever been overly concerned about time, a ten or fifteen minutes leeway meant on time.
The network could not create life, but it had a tremendous amount of leeway with the alteration of it.
He was generally thought to be a competent if unimaginative governor, exercising what leeway a Hierchon had within the Mercatorial system with caution, sense and, on occasion, even a degree of compassion.
Even then, however, the details of the Fourierist blueprint for the future had seemed to him rather ridiculous, and he had agreed with his friend Valerian Maikov that the phalanstery hardly left any leeway for the freedom of the individual.
She must not only be at Sain Scarp by midwinter, but she must leave some leeway for return to Thendara before the winter storms closed the passes.
Mowett, and explained the nature of leeway, the loss of windward distance in wearing, the impossibility of tacking in a very great wind, the inevitability of leeward drift in the case of being embayed with a full gale blowing dead on short, and the impervious horror of this situation.
It seems to me the implants have done pretty well with granting reasonable leeway, as you say, to the parolees in the house arrest program.