Upwind

Definition: Upwind

Upwind

Adjective

1. Towards the side exposed to wind.

Adverb

1. Toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward".

2. In the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind".

Date "upwind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Specialty Definition: Upwind

Domain	Definition
Sports & Leisure	With face or course against the wind. . . . In a position toward the direction from which the wind is blowing. Source: European Union. (references)
	With face or cource against the wind. . . . In a position toward the direction from which the wind is blowing. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Upwind

Synonyms: weather(a) (adj), against the wind (adv), into the wind (adv), leeward (adv). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: up-wind (sports & leisure, transportation).

Antonyms: downwind (adv), windward (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Upwind

Specialty definitions using "upwind": Anvil Rollover ♦ Back-building Thunderstorm, Back-sheared Anvil. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Upwind

Domain	Title
Books	Euler and Navier-Stokes solvers using multi-dimensional upwind schemes and multigrid acceleration : results of the BRITE/EURAM projects AERO-CT89-0003 and AER2-CT92-00040, 1989-1995 (reference) Upwind and High-Resolution Schemes (reference) Upwind, downstream : poems on Ilocos and the Cordilleras (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Upwind Sailing (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Upwind

"Upwind" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.33% of the time. "Upwind" is used about 75 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)	89.33%	67	40,952
Lexical Verb (base form)	10.67%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	75	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Upwind

Expressions using "upwind": stand upwind of smb. ♦ upwind leg. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Upwind

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
asbestos exposure upwind	2
design marconi rig sailing upwind	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Upwind

Language		Translations for "upwind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kundër erës. (various references)

Bulgarian		срещу вятъра. (various references)

Danish		opstrømsudluftning. (various references)

Farsi		خلاف جهت باد. (various references)

French		vent/face au, vent/contre le, près, en amont aérage. (various references)

German		windwärts (windward, windwards). (various references)

Hebrew		� �'�" �"רוח. (various references)

Hungarian		szembeszél (headwind), ellenszél (counterblow, cross-wind, dead wind, headwind, noser). (various references)

Indonesian		melawan angin. (various references)

Pig Latin		indupway

Russian		против ветра. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uz vetar. (various references)

Spanish		corriente arriba. (various references)

Swedish		motvind (dead wind, head-wind), mot vinden (windward). (various references)

Turkish		rüzgâra karşı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Upwind

Derivations
	Words beginning with "upwind": upwinds. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Upwind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Epwin, Ukwimi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Upwind

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: windup.
	Words within the letters "d-i-n-p-u-w"
	-2 letters: wind.
	-3 letters: din, dip, dui, dun, dup, nip, pin, piu, pud, pun, win, wud.
	-4 letters: id, in, nu, pi, un, up.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-n-p-u-w"
	+1 letter: upwinds, windups.
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