(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship.
(n.) The lee side; the lee.
(adv.) Toward the lee.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genetic differentiation mainly due to genetic drift and founder effect between France and this isolate and between the Leeward (parish of Gustavia) and Windward (parish of Lorient) areas within the island is discussed.
(2) Thus, cerebrovascular accidents at an early age are common complications in Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and warrant further investigation of this disease among inhabitants of the Leeward Islands of the Netherlands Antilles.
(3) The presence of a stationary barrier decreases the passive movement of the gas away from the leeward side.
(4) An arbovirus serologic survey of school children on the Northern Leeward Islands (Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Maarten) using haemagglutination inhibition (HI) detected a high proportion of reactors to dengue types 1,2, and 3.
(5) aegypti, is amply available in the Windward and Leeward islands of the Antilles.
(6) Evidence is presented suggesting that a growth-stimulating gas is emitted from the sporangiophore and is then swept to the leeward side by air currents resulting in higher gas concentration on that side.
(7) Introduced along the Leeward Coast of Hawaii about 3 years ago, it is now being used throughout Oahu and is starting to rival cocaine as the illicit drug of choice in Hawaii.
(8) Anguilla is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands, situated at 63.05 W, 18.12 N for those of my colleagues still able to afford a boat with transatlantic capability after the new contract, and wishing to visit.
(9) A total of 259 specimens of 32 potentially ciguatoxic fish species from St-Barthelemy, Leeward Islands in the Caribbean sea were checked for ciguatoxin.
(10) Thirty-two patients (17 men and 15 women) are presented in whom the diagnosis Rendu-Osler-Weber disease was established between 1980 and 1990 during hospitalisation in the Leeward Islands of the Netherlands Antilles.
Windward
Definition:
(n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
(a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.
(adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimated number of dengue infections in the Windward Islands was about 20,000.
(2) The genetic differentiation mainly due to genetic drift and founder effect between France and this isolate and between the Leeward (parish of Gustavia) and Windward (parish of Lorient) areas within the island is discussed.
(3) This is the windward coast, so the water is seldom calm enough for swimming, but just north of the hotel lies a small, empty beach dotted with shells.
(4) aegypti, is amply available in the Windward and Leeward islands of the Antilles.
(5) Reefs of the windward Southeast Hawaiian Islands, US Management is improving around the main Hawaiian islands such as Oahu and Maui, but over-fishing and organic sediment from plantations remain major threats.
(6) Dew-point sensors recorded temperatures under the garments at ambient and chest (windward site) and midscapular sites.
(7) A survey of microfilaraemia among the population of Vanua Levu, Taveuni and Koro islands in northern Fiji was conducted in 1968 and 1969 as a prelude to a campaign of mass treatment with diethylcarbamazine.The prevalences of microfilaraemia were found in the more moist conditions of Taveuni and Koro and on the windward southern side of Vanua Levu to be higher than on the drier northern side of Vanua Levu.