Close To The Wind

Definition: Close To The Wind

1. (nautical) nearly opposite to the direction from which wind is coming; "sailing close to the wind".

Synonyms within Context: Close To The Wind

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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Specialty definitions using "close to the wind": close hauled ♦ Sailing within the Wind. (references)

Modern Usage: Close To The Wind

Commercial Usage: Close To The Wind

Domain	Title
Books	Close to the Wind (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression: Close To The Wind

Expression using "close to the wind": sail close to the wind. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: Close To The Wind

Language		Translations for "close to the wind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		zahrávat si s ohnìm (play with fire, sail close to the wind). (various references)

Hungarian		széllel szemben vitorlázik (to sail close to the wind, to sail near to wind), kétes üzelmeket folytat (to sail close to the wind, to sail near to wind). (various references)

Pig Latin		oseclay otay ethay indway

Swedish		bidewind. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Close To The Wind

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-w"
	-3 letters: cottonweeds, theodolites, thistledown.
	-4 letters: cottonseed, cottonweed, detections, thecodonts, theodolite.
	-5 letters: closedown, colonised, contested, dehiscent, deletions, denticles, detection, dishtowel, elections, entwisted, locoweeds, lodestone, sectioned, selection, stenciled, telethons, thecodont, whetstone, withstood, woodenest.
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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	'Columbia' Close to the Wind (1899)
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