DEAD WIND

  

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DEAD WIND

Definition: DEAD WIND

DEAD WIND

1. (Naut.), a wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: DEAD WIND

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Literature

Dead Wind (A). A wind directly opposed to a ship's course; a wind dead ahead. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DEAD WIND

Specialty definitions using "DEAD WIND": aerial navigator, airplane navigatorstorywind triangle. (references)

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Modern Translations: DEAD WIND

Language Translations for "DEAD WIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

erë e kundërt (head-wind). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

насрещен вятър (head-wind). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ellenszél (counterblow, cross-wind, headwind, noser, upwind). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadday indway.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

vânt contrar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

встречный лобовой ветер (dead-wind). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

suprotni vetar. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

viento al frente. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

motvind (head wind, head-wind, opposing wind, upwind). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DEAD WIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-i-n-w"

-1 letter: waddied.

-2 letters: addend, dawned, dwined, wadded, waddie, winded.

-3 letters: added, aided, awned, dawed, dawen, dewan, dined, diwan, dwine, nided, waded, waned, widen, wined.

-4 letters: aide, anew, awed, dawn, dead, dean, deni, died, dine, idea, nide, wade, wadi, wain, wand, wane, wean, wend, wide, wind, wine.

-5 letters: add, aid, ain, and, ane, ani, awe, awn, dad, daw, den, dew, did, die, din, end, nae, naw, new, wad, wae, wan, wed, wen, win.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DEAD WIND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 41 44      57 49 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#87 &#73 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0044      0057 0049 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38393538257434838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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