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Upwind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wind up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
  • (2) triseriatus and Haemagogus equinus), were used in a flight chamber in which females must fly upwind against the direction of the sound waves and around the ultrasonic devices to reach a trap downwind of a source of human breath and skin emanations.
  • (3) Samples of the gaseous effluent were collected inside the aeration building, inside the building's stack, 300 meters upwind (background sampler), and 300 meters downwind (test sampler), using Andersen samplers.
  • (4) Upwind the number of yeast colony-forming units was zero.
  • (5) Surely anyone in their right mind is thinking about how we can reduce pollution but they want to build another runway here, upwind of London ?
  • (6) A 6.1 m long suction trap, with multiple air inlets located on its upwind, top, ends and downwind sides, was placed on a freely pivoting raft moored in a large borrow pit.
  • (7) The proportion of mice showing estrus when placed 2 upwind was significantly less than that of mice downwind or of mice beloii but not different from that of females remote from males.
  • (8) The concentrations of 15 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were determined in ambient air particles sampled at four sites in an urban and industrialized area in The Netherlands, and at one site near the coast (generally upwind).
  • (9) Fifty percent of an Amblyomma variegatum female population were able to find upwind-positioned targets containing the synthetic aggregation-attachment pheromone of this species or the pheromone component o-nitrophenol alone.
  • (10) However, if the air current carries sex pheromone, then upwind movement is elicited.
  • (11) Male and female Manduca sexta flew upwind in response to the odor of female sex-pheromone gland extract or fresh tobacco leaf respectively, and generated very similar zigzagging tracks along the odor plume.
  • (12) Take-off was significantly orientated upwind during the period when swormlure-4 was added to the airstream, and significantly orientated downwind in the period after the addition of swormlure-4.
  • (13) Upwind of the flame-torch exposure the level was below the exposure limit, whereas downwind lead concentrations of up to ten times the exposure limit were observed.
  • (14) These results indicate that two peripheral processes related to excessive concentration, complete adaptation of antennal neurons, or merely the attenuation of fluctuations in burst frequency, are important determinants of when upwind progress by a moth flying in a pheromone plume stops and changes to station keeping.
  • (15) We suggest that these basal crosslinks support the long vestibular stereocilia rendering them more rigid, and that the upwind pointing crosslinks are responsible for the initiation of sensory transduction.
  • (16) Three responses to simulated yaw were noted: Yaw-correcting upwind turning tendencies (Figs.
  • (17) Trends from 1979 to 1987 were studied for the number of days per year ozone exceeded the NAAQS standard, the second-highest ozone level observed per year, and the first quartile summertime average ozone observed, as well as the mean difference between the ozone level observed downwind and upwind of the city.
  • (18) Such a trend could not be found for the total number of colony-forming units (yeasts, molds, and bacteria) although the upwind concentration was slightly lower than the downwind concentration.
  • (19) The particles sampled upwind dominated the mutagenicity in the area; in contrast to the locally emitted particles, their effects decreased in the presence of S9 fraction.
  • (20) When tobacco hornworm moths (Manduca sexta) are tested in a wind tunnel with a source of female pheromones upwind, males but not normal females show pheromone-modulated anemotaxis and a characteristic mate-seeking behavioural sequence.

Wind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
  • (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
  • (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
  • (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  • (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
  • (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
  • (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
  • (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
  • (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
  • (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
  • (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
  • (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
  • (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
  • (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
  • (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
  • (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
  • (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
  • (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
  • (n.) The dotterel.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
  • (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
  • (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
  • (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (3) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (6) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (8) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (9) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (10) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (11) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
  • (12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (13) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (14) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
  • (15) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
  • (16) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (17) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (18) They’re from every other source in the environment – from the wind, from transport,” he said.
  • (19) Nineteen members of the West Midlands Police Force, who qualified as PTSD sufferers, were offered the 're-wind' technique.
  • (20) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."

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