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"TRADE WINDS" is a plural of: trade wind. |
| Domain | Definition |
Science | Surface air from the horse latitudes that moves back toward the equator and is deflected by the Coriolis Force, causing the winds to blow from the Northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the Southeast in the Southern Hemisphere. These steady winds are called trade winds because they provided trade ships with an ocean route to the New World. (references) |
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Crosswords: TRADE WINDS |
| English words defined with "TRADE WINDS": antitrade, antitrade wind, antitrades ♦ doldrums ♦ Horse latitudes ♦ the doldrums, trade, trade wind. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TRADE WINDS": equatorial calms ♦ Hadley cell ♦ Intertropical Convergence Zone ♦ subtropical anticyclones, subtropical easterlies, subtropical ridge ♦ tropical easterlies ♦ Winds. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Trade Winds (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Golf course on the Kona coast. Palm trees moulded by direction of prevailing trade winds. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The lighthouse as seen from the far end of the parade ground at Fort Jefferson. The configuration of the palm trees is testimony to the force and continuity of the trade winds in this area. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Normally an oceanographic phenomenon known as upwelling keeps the surface waters of the southeast Pacific Ocean cold and teeming with small pelagics that are fished by purse seiners. Upwelling occurs in this zone when southeasterly trade winds , produced by the South Pacific anti-cyclone, along with other facto rs drive coastal waters out to sea, forcing deep nutrient-rich waters to rise. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Felipe D'Aquino, half-length portrait, facing left, aboard the SS Trade Winds, leaving San Francisco for Japan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Cuba (09/01) | Climate: Tropical, moderated by trade winds; dry season (November-April); rainy season (May-October). (references) |
Costa Rica | Mild climate and trade winds make neither heating nor cooling necessary, particularly in the highland cities and towns where some 90% of the population lives. (references) | |
Seychelles | During the coolest months, July and August, it drops to as low as 700F. The southeast trade winds blow regularly from May to November, and this is the most pleasant time of the year. (references) | |
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| Language | Translations for "TRADE WINDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | aliseo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adetray indsway пассаты. (various references) vientos alisios (trades). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"TRADE WINDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tradewinds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-n-r-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: dandiest, darndest, detrains, disrated, randiest, sideward, strained, stranded, stridden, tawdries, tinwares. | |
-3 letters: addrest, anestri, antired, antsier, aridest, astride, danders, dandier, dandies, dawties, destain, detains, detrain, diaster, disrate, distend, drained, instead, inwards, nastier, randies, ratines, retains, retinas, retsina, rewinds, sainted, sandier, sardine, staider, stained, stainer, stander, stearin, steward, strawed, swarded, swidden, tardies, tawnier. | |
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