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Definition: WIND-BREAK |
WIND-BREAKNoun1. A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. Transitive verb1. To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A barrier composed of planted trees on the shores of reservoirs designed to break the velocity of the wind near their water surface in order to reduce evaporation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rolling heavily and pitching in rough seas, while en route to raid Okinawa with Task Force 58, 6 October 1944. TBM "Avenger" torpedo planes of Torpedo Squadron 51 are parked at right, with landing gear well-lashed to the deck. Note "palisade" wind-break in elevated position across the flight deck, forward of the planes. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "WIND-BREAK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WIND-BREAK" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "WIND-BREAK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 风" . (various references) | |
Czech | vìtrolam (windbreak). (various references) | |
Danish | laeplantning (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), læbælte (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
Dutch | windwering (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), windvang (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), windsingel (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), windscherm (break wind, shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, wind break, windbreak), windmantel (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), windkering (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), houtwal (hedgerow, shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuulensuojaistutus (break wind, shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, wind break, windbreak), tuulensuoja (lee, shelter), suojavyöhyke (protective belt, shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
French | rideau d'arbres brise-vent (windbreak), rideau brise-vent (windbreak), brise-vent (break wind, wind break, windbreak). (various references) | |
German | Windschutzstreifen (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), Windschutzpflanzung (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), Windschutzanlage (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), Windschutz (windbreak). (various references) | |
Greek | ανεμοφράκτης (frontscreen, shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak, windscreen, windshield). (various references) | |
Italian | protezione contro il vento (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), frangivento (break wind, shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, wind break, windbreak), barriera frangivento (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
Korean | "람 끊어지십시". (various references) | |
Manx | scaa geay. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ind-breakway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quebra-ventos (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), cortina pára-vento (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
Spanish | rompevientos (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak), cortavientos (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
Swedish | läplantering (shelter belt, shelterbelt, shelter-belt, windbreak). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | h ng r o chắn gió, h ng cây chắn gió. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: windbreak. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-k-n-r-w" | |
-2 letters: bawdier, brained. | |
-3 letters: abider, bander, banked, banker, barked, binder, braked, brined, daiker, danker, darken, debark, denari, inbred, inward, kinder, kirned, narked, rained, ranked, rebind, rewind, riband, waired, wander, wanier, warden, warked, warned, winder, winked, winker. | |
-4 letters: abide, aider, aired, ardeb, awned, bairn, baked, baker, baned, barde, bared, beard, bider, biked, biker, braid, brain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-k-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: windbreaks. | |
+2 letters: windbreaker. | |
+3 letters: windbreakers. | |
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