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Definition: Against The Wind |
Against The WindAdverb1. In the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Against The WindSynonyms: into the wind (adv), upwind (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: downwind (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Direction | Before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind; windwards, in the wind's eye. |
Opposition | Against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against the wind, against the tide; with a headwind; with the wind ahead, with the wind in one's teeth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Against The Wind |
| English words defined with "against the wind": Flying Dutchman ♦ Laveer ♦ To back and fill, To whistle off, To work to windward. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "against the wind": wind break. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Against the Wind (1948) One Against the Wind (1991) Against the Wind (1978) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Furrowing against the wind to check the drift of sand. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Boatmen towing sailboat against the wind up the Pieho to Peking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. |
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Expressions using "against the wind": beat against the wind ♦ sail against the wind. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
against the wind | 33 |
bob seger against the wind | 6 |
one against the wind | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "against the wind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | action à contre-tendance (leaning against the wind), action à contre-courant (leaning against the wind), intervention à contre-tendance (leaning against the wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | againstay ethay indway intervención en contra de la tendencia (leaning against the wind), hurtar el viento (sail against the wind). (various references) พบความยุ่งยาภ(sail against the wind). (various references) rüzgâra karşı volta vurmak (back and fill, beat against the wind, tack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-s-t-t-w" | |
-2 letters: withstanding. | |
-4 letters: antedating, destaining, enswathing, entwisting, hesitating, instigated, inswathing, nightstand, sanitating, tetanising, wadsetting, whitenings. | |
-5 letters: antiwhite, attaining, attending, daintiest, destining, detaining, dittanies, gnathites, hastening, indagates, indigents, insatiate, insetting, instating, instigate, inswathed, intwisted, naethings, nightside, sanitated, satiating, stagehand, stagnated, tightwads, twangiest, whinniest, whitening, withstand. | |
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