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DOWN THE WIND

Definition: DOWN THE WIND

DOWN THE WIND

1. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] ``He went down the wind still.'' --L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: DOWN THE WIND

English words defined with "DOWN THE WIND": To whistle off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DOWN THE WIND": Whistle Down the Wind. (references)

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Modern Usage: DOWN THE WIND

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

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

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Commercial Usage: DOWN THE WIND

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Expression: DOWN THE WIND

Expression using "DOWN THE WIND": sail down the wind. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOWN THE WIND

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

whistle down the wind

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOWN THE WIND

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

Hungarian

  

szél irányában (before the wind, in the wind's eye, windward). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ownday ethay indway

   

Romanian

  

naviga cu vântul în spate (sail before the wind, sail down the wind). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rüzgâr yönünde (down wind), rüzgâr doğrultusunda (down wind). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOWN THE WIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-h-i-n-n-o-t-w-w"

-3 letters: downwind, nonwhite, thindown, windowed, winnowed.

-4 letters: dentoid, howdied, indowed, intoned, thinned, twinned, widowed.

-5 letters: dentin, dinned, dinted, doited, donned, downed, dwined, enwind, ethion, hidden, hinted, hodden, hoddin, hoiden, honied, howdie, indent, intend, intone, intown, newton, tendon, tinned, townie, twined, whined, whited, whiten, winded, window, winned, winnow, withed, wonned, wonted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOWN THE WIND


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

44 4F 57 4E      54 48 45      57 49 4E 44

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

        

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

01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#87 &#78 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#87 &#73 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0057 004E      0054 0048 0045      0057 0049 004E 0044

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

384957482544239257434838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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