Upwind

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t.
     To wind up. --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv.
     Against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is
     blowing.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  upwind \up"wind`\, a.
     being or moving in the direction from which the wind is
     blowing.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  upwind
       adj : towards the side exposed to wind [syn: {weather(a)}]
       adv 1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn: {leeward}]
              [ant: {windward}, {windward}]
       2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is
          blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: {against the wind}, {into
          the wind}] [ant: {downwind}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "upwind":
     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