| 词汇 | windward |
| 释义 | windward adjective geography, environment specializeduk /ˈwɪnd.wəd/ us /ˈwɪnd.wɚd/ (on the side of a hill, etc.) facing the wind: 迎风的;向风的 On the windward leg of the yacht race the wind was strong.在比赛顶风的一段赛程，风刮得非常猛。 Compare leewardspecialized Wind & winds anemometer blast chinook crosswind cyclonic draughty easterly gale northerly sea breeze sigh slipstream stiff the Coriolis effect tornado vorticity weathervane windblown windswept wuthering windward | American Dictionarywindward adjective, adverb us/ˈwɪnd·wərd/ earth science toward or turned toward the direction from which the wind is blowing Examples of windwardwindward If she was a well-designed ship, better than her companions, then this process of luffing would eventually take her up to windward of the fleet. Such hills faced windward and therefore tended to be uncomfortably cold at all times. South: the door structure presents a windward impact front because of its vertical structure. 16g. Pottery to be fired is placed downwind, and brush or other materials are placed windward in the trench. The rugged relief supports marked local variations in rainfall between the windward (east) and leeward (west) sides. Note that, since the pressures acting on the windward side only are taken into account, there is a net pitching moment for 0" incidence. Accordingly, the predominantly east-facing sides of each island were designated as windward and the predominantly west-facing sides were designated as leeward. The flow along this axis of symmetry, weaker on the leeward than the windward side in relation to the source position, is in the nature of a thin circular jet. But continued reference to the windward side of the hill or ridge as a location reserved for evil reinforced the taboo against setting homesteads on that side of the hill. We see at once that the axial velocity is increased outside the pipe and jet in the windward and leeward quadrants and decreased in the lateral quadrants. The clinic pointed out that it is high on a hillside, tucked away round the bend of a hill, on the lee side and not on the windward side. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, it was on the windward side of part of my constituency so it was not long before many of my constituents complained about the smell. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Vincent we were able to see both the windward and leeward sides of the island and to talk with officials and the ordinary people up and down the island. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When under way, the pump can be used to fill the windward side, while the lee side is allowed to drain. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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