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Definition: Crosswind |
CrosswindNoun1. Wind blowing across the path or a ship or aircraft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | That wind vector component which is perpendicular to the course of an exposed moving object. Compare range wind. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Crosswind |
| Specialty definitions using "crosswind": ballistic wind. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Crosswind" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "Crosswind" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.35% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crosswind | 25 |
breitling crosswind | 15 |
crosswind isuzu | 14 |
crosswind martins | 7 |
community crosswind | 5 |
fantom crosswind | 5 |
crosswind landing | 4 |
breitling crosswind special | 3 |
breitling crosswind racing | 3 |
component crosswind | 3 |
calculator crosswind | 3 |
crosswind home | 3 |
crosswind fantom vacuum | 2 |
crosswind golf | 2 |
crosswind dc.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crosswind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | насрещен (adverse, counter, cross, foul, head, oncoming, opposite, unfavorable, unfavourable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 侧风. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seitenwind. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | geay tessen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osswindcray встречный ветер (head wind, head-wind). (various references) bočni vetar. (various references) sidvind. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crosswind": crosswinds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: discrowns. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-n-o-r-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: discrown. | |
-2 letters: disowns, incross. | |
-3 letters: crowds, crowns, discos, disown, drowns, indows, nordic, orcins, rosins, scions, scorns, scrods, sonics, swords. | |
-4 letters: cions, coins, coirs, cords, corns, cross, crowd, crown, crows, disco, discs, downs, dross, drown, icons, indow, irons, noirs, noris, orcin, ornis, rinds, rosin, scion, scorn, scows, scrod, snows, sodic, sonic, sords, sorns, sword, sworn. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-n-o-r-s-s-w" | |
+1 letter: crosswinds. | |
+3 letters: cowardliness. | |
+5 letters: cowardlinesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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