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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | Wind blowing in the opposite direction to that in which the waves are travelling. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Wind which blows in a direction opposite to that in which an object is moving, with respect to the earth's surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OPPOSING WIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | modvind (head wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tegenwind (head wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastatuuli (contrary wind), aallokon vastainen tuuli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vent devant, vent debout, vent de bout, vent contraire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | widriger Wind, Gegenwind (headwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άνεμος ανάντι, αντίθετος άνεμος (head wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vento contrario all'onda, vento contrario (head wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opposingay indway vento contrário à onda, vento contrário (counterblast). (various references) viento en contra (headwind), viento de cara (head wind), viento contrario a las olas. (various references) motvind (dead wind, head-wind, upwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-p-s-w" | |
-3 letters: disowning, poisoning. | |
-4 letters: indowing, iodopsin, opinions, opposing, pogonips, poinding, snipping, snooding, snooping, spooning, swooning, swooping, swopping, windigos, windings, woopsing. | |
-5 letters: dipping, downing, dowsing, dwining, godowns, indigos, inwinds, nipping, noising, noosing, opining, opinion, opioids, opsonin, pidgins, pinions, pipings, pogonip, poising, ponding, pongids, pooping, sipping, sniping, snowing, sopping, spongin, swiping, windigo, winding, wisping, wooding. | |
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| 1. Translations: Modern 2. Anagrams 3. Bibliography |
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