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High Wind

Definition: High Wind

High Wind

Noun

1. A very strong wind; "rain and high winds covered the region".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: High Wind

English words defined with "high wind": rackTo sail finewind. (references)
Specialty definitions using "high wind": Bare Poles, buys ballot's lawCoronal Mass Ejectionguy linehurricanesjetstreamNatural VentilationPolar rainscintillometer, shock tube, southern oscillationVan Allen belts or Van Allen Radiation beltswesterly trough. (references)
Etymologies containing "high wind": Hurricane. (references)

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Modern Usage: High Wind

DomainUsage

Screenplays

When I was 19, I did a guy in Laos with a rifle shot in high wind. They told me, maybe eight or even ten guys in the world could have made that shot. (Lethal Weapon; writing credit: Shane Black)

Movie/TV Titles

A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)

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

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Photo Album: High Wind

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Camp at Station Wall South Base with tent blown down by high wind Astro party of E. J. Brown.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

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Modern Translations: High Wind

Language Translations for "high wind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

силен вятър (blast). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δυνατός άνεμος (gale). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

heves szél (rugged wind, stiff gale, stiff wind). (various references)

   

Manx

  

geay vooar (hurricane). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighhay indway

   

Romanian

  

vânt violent. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сильный ветер (bitter wind, gale). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

jak vetar (gale, snorter). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hård wind. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: High Wind

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-h-h-i-i-n-w"

-2 letters: hiding.

-4 letters: ding, high, hind, nidi, nigh, whid, whig, whin, wind, wing.

-5 letters: dig, din, ghi, gid, gin, hid, hin, wig, win.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-h-h-i-i-n-w"
 

+3 letters: withholding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: High Wind


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

48 69 67 68      57 69 6E 64

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

    

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

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01010111 01101001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#32 &#87 &#105 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068      0057 0069 006E 0064

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

42757374257758070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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