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Definition: Tailwind |
TailwindNoun1. Wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Wind which blows in the same direction as 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. | |
| Synonym by domain: tail wind (geography). |
| "Tailwind" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tailwind" is used about 11 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) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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 |
nike tailwind | 37 |
nike air max tailwind | 30 |
air max tailwind | 12 |
tailwind | 11 |
nike air tailwind | 10 |
tailwind wittman | 9 |
tailwind whitman | 8 |
nike sdm tailwind | 7 |
sdm tailwind | 6 |
99 air max nike tailwind | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tailwind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 追風 (fair or favorable wind), 追い風 (fair or favorable wind). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おいかぜ (fair or favorable wind), おいて (at, except, fair or favorable wind, in, no other, on, pursuer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailwindtay.(various references) | |
Swedish | medvind (tail-wind). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tailwind": tailwinds. (additional references) | |
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"Tailwind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trallwyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-l-n-t-w" | |
-2 letters: inlaid. | |
-3 letters: diwan, iliad, litai, nidal, nitid, tidal, twain, witan. | |
-4 letters: adit, alit, anil, anti, dawn, dawt, dial, dint, dita, ilia, inia, inti, laid, lain, land, lati, lawn, lint, nail, nidi, tail, tain, tali, twin, wadi, wail, wain, wait, wand, want, wild, wilt, wind. | |
-5 letters: aid, ail, ain, ait, alt, and, ani, ant, awl, awn, dal, daw, din, dit, lad, lat, law, lid, lin, lit, naw, nil, nit, tad, tan, taw, til, tin, twa, wad, wan, wat, win, wit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-l-n-t-w" | |
+1 letter: tailwinds. | |
+3 letters: wildcatting. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 69 6C 77 69 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. .-.. .--. .. -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a i l w i n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0069 006C 0077 0069 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467757889758070 |
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