downwind
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA: /ˌdaʊnˈwɪnd/
downwind
- in the same direction as the wind is blowing
- 1888: Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
- ... the aftermath of the dust-storm came up and caught us both, and drove us downwind like pieces of paper.
- 1888: Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
- (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
- I don't want to live downwind from a pig farm.
- (aviation) in the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern
- German: vor dem Wind, mit dem Wind, in Windrichtung, windabgewandt, windabwärts, unter dem Winde
- Italian: sottovento
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