upwind

/adverb, adjective uhp-wind; noun uhp-wind/US // adverb, adjective ˈʌpˈwɪnd; noun ˈʌpˌwɪnd //UK // (ˈʌpˈwɪnd) //

逆风,上风,顺风,上风向

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb

1
- : toward or against the wind or the direction from which it is blowing: The hunters stalked upwind.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : moving or situated toward or in the direction from which the wind is blowing: an upwind leap; the upwind portions of the aircraft.

n.名词 noun

At one point, the owner of a neighboring farm spread manure on the field upwind, suffusing the area with its stench for days.
“When we’re done, it will be like this well was never here,” Shuck said, standing upwind as cement was pumped hundreds of feet down, through a series of pipes stuck in the 7½-inch-wide hole like a straw in a juice box.
The whalers’ observations from the time suggest that they may have also been escaping upwind or attacking the whaling boats.
Blocks of snow were cut and arranged in a semicircle, within which the tent was laid with its peak upwind.
I was the upwind wheeler and had to hitch on to the side of the sledge to reduce the leeway as much as possible.
The sail was up and, while braking the load upwind, I slipped and fell, allowing the sledge to collide with a large sastruga.
Ten minutes later he started the motor, and headed upwind into the haze over the hills.
Smoke from the flung bomb upwind barely swirled around him and missed Maril altogether.

/adverb, adjective uhp-wind; noun uhp-wind/US // adverb, adjective ˈʌpˈwɪnd; noun ˈʌpˌwɪnd //UK // (ˈʌpˈwɪnd) //

逆风,上风,顺风,上风向

adv.副词 adverb

1
- : toward or against the wind or the direction from which it is blowing: The hunters stalked upwind.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : moving or situated toward or in the direction from which the wind is blowing: an upwind leap; the upwind portions of the aircraft.

n.名词 noun

At one point, the owner of a neighboring farm spread manure on the field upwind, suffusing the area with its stench for days.
“When we’re done, it will be like this well was never here,” Shuck said, standing upwind as cement was pumped hundreds of feet down, through a series of pipes stuck in the 7½-inch-wide hole like a straw in a juice box.
The whalers’ observations from the time suggest that they may have also been escaping upwind or attacking the whaling boats.
Blocks of snow were cut and arranged in a semicircle, within which the tent was laid with its peak upwind.
I was the upwind wheeler and had to hitch on to the side of the sledge to reduce the leeway as much as possible.
The sail was up and, while braking the load upwind, I slipped and fell, allowing the sledge to collide with a large sastruga.
Ten minutes later he started the motor, and headed upwind into the haze over the hills.
Smoke from the flung bomb upwind barely swirled around him and missed Maril altogether.