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Definition: High Wind |
High WindNoun1. 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": rack ♦ To sail fine ♦ wind. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "high wind": Bare Poles, buys ballot's law ♦ Coronal Mass Ejection ♦ guy line ♦ hurricanes ♦ jetstream ♦ Natural Ventilation ♦ Polar rain ♦ scintillometer, shock tube, southern oscillation ♦ Van Allen belts or Van Allen Radiation belts ♦ westerly trough. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "high wind": Hurricane. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| 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 vânt violent. (various references) сильный ветер (bitter wind, gale). (various references) jak vetar (gale, snorter). (various references) hård wind. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 67 68 57 69 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01010111 01101001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i g h   W i n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0067 0068 0057 0069 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42757374257758070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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