upwind

5 definitions found

upwind - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t.
     To wind up. --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

  Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv.
     Against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is
     blowing.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

  upwind \up"wind`\, a.
     being or moving in the direction from which the wind is
     blowing.
     [PJC]

upwind - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  upwind
      adv 1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn:
             leeward, upwind] [ant: downwind, windward]
      2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is
         blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, against the   wind
         , into the wind] [ant: downwind]
      adj 1: towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind,
             weather(a)]

upwind - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "upwind":
     alee, alight, arise, ascend, aweather, come down, come in, come up,
     crash-land, curl upwards, descend, ditch, downwind, go up, grow up,
     land, leeward, level off, levitate, light, loom, mount, overshoot,
     pancake, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, settle down, spiral, spire,
     stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, talk down, to leeward,
     to windward, touch down, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise,
     upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, weatherward, windward