What does upwind mean?
Definitions for upwind
ˈʌpˈwɪndup·wind
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Princeton's WordNet
upwind, weather(a)adverb
towards the side exposed to wind
leeward, upwindadverb
toward the wind
"they were sailing leeward"
upwind, against the wind, into the windadverb
in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing
"they flew upwind"
Wiktionary
upwindadverb
in the direction from which the wind is blowing
upwindadjective
exposed to the wind
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Upwindverb
pret. and pass. upwound. To convolve.
Etymology: up and wind.
As she lay upon the dirty ground,
Her huge long tail her den all overspread;
Yet was in knots and many boughts upwound. Fa. Queen.
Wikipedia
upwind
Windward () and leeward () are terms used to describe the direction of the wind. Windward is upwind from the point of reference, i.e. towards the direction from which the wind is coming; leeward is downwind from the point of reference, i.e. along the direction towards which the wind is going. The side of a ship that is towards the leeward is its "lee side". If the vessel is heeling under the pressure of crosswind, the lee side will be the "lower side". During the Age of Sail, the term weather was used as a synonym for windward in some contexts, as in the weather gage. Because it captures rain, the windward side of a mountain tends to be wet compared to the leeward it blocks.
ChatGPT
upwind
Upwind refers to the direction from which the wind is coming; towards the wind or facing the direction from which the wind is coming. It could also refer to a position or location that is situated close to the source of the wind or to one side from which the wind blows. In environmental science, it’s typically used when discussing pollution dispersion, while in aviation or sailing, it's used to describe a travel direction against the wind.
Webster Dictionary
Upwindverb
to wind up
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Upwind
up-wīnd′, v.t. (Spens.) to wind up:—pa.t. upwound′.
Anagrams for upwind »
windup
wind up
wind-up
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of upwind in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of upwind in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of upwind in a Sentence
Allow the adults to be the ones to set off the fireworks and stay upwind from it so that the smoke is blowing in the breeze.
What's happening upwind strongly affects what's happening downwind.
This is about fairness; some states have done all they can do to control ozone pollution and their counterparts that are upwind are being asked to do the same.
The EPA is allowing more harmful air pollution to be sent from big polluters in one state to neighboring states, refusing to control the pollution, then lying about what is an obvious rollback, the EPA's absurd to pretend this so-called' guidance' doesn't change what's acceptable : the purpose of the rollback memo is to let upwind states pollute more and refuse to control harmful smog and soot they emit into neighboring states.
The 'aha' moment came when we saw how much more prevalent resistant sequences were downwind than upwind, it was not just higher in some of them—it was 4,000 percent more. It made me not want to breathe.
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