upwind

upwind
Synonyms and related words:
alee, alight, arise, ascend, aweather, come down, come in, come up, crash-land, curl upwards, descend, ditch, downwind, go up, grow up, land, leeward, level off, levitate, light, loom, mount, overshoot, pancake, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, settle down, spiral, spire, stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, talk down, to leeward, to windward, touch down, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, weatherward, windward

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  • Upwind — Up*wind , v. t. To wind up. Spenser. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • upwind — up wind , a. being or moving in the direction from which the wind is blowing. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • upwind — 1838, from UP (Cf. up ) + WIND (Cf. wind). Originally a nautical term …   Etymology dictionary

  • upwind — ► ADVERB & ADJECTIVE ▪ into the wind …   English terms dictionary

  • upwind — [up′wind′] adv., adj. in the direction from which the wind is blowing or usually blows …   English World dictionary

  • upwind — [[t]ʌ̱pwɪ̱nd[/t]] ADV: ADV after v, be ADV, oft ADV of n If something moves upwind, it moves in the opposite direction to the wind. If something is upwind, the wind is blowing away from it. ...riding a bike upwind... The rich went to live in the… …   English dictionary

  • upwind — adv., adj. /up wind /; n. /up wind /, adv. 1. toward or against the wind or the direction from which it is blowing: The hunters stalked upwind. adj. 2. moving or situated toward or in the direction from which the wind is blowing: an upwind leap;… …   Universalium

  • upwind — adverb /ʌpˈwɪnd / (say up wind) 1. against the wind; contrary to the course of the wind. 2. towards or in the direction from which the wind is blowing: he was standing upwind of us and could be heard clearly. –adjective /ˈʌpwɪnd / (say upwind) 3 …  

  • Upwind scheme — In computational fluid dynamics, the upwind schemes are any of a class of discretization methods to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations numerically. The wave equation, the advection equation, the Euler equations in fluid dynamics, etc …   Wikipedia

  • upwind — adverb or adjective Date: 1838 in the direction from which the wind is blowing …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • upwind — 1. adjective exposed to the wind 2. adverb in the direction from which the wind is blowing Ant: downwind …   Wiktionary

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