What's the difference between weatherboard and windward?

Weatherboard


Definition:

  • (n.) That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
  • (n.) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water.
  • (n.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath.
  • (n.) A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That night, on Sara’s advice, I check into the Sawtooth Hotel (doubles from $70 room-only), the kind of weatherboard, pioneer cabin that Mr Muir would have appreciated.
  • (2) The bestselling BoKlok design in Sweden has an exterior of blood-red weatherboard, square white windows and a pitched roof; it wouldn't look out of place in a typical Swedish town.
  • (3) The relationship between dentine lead values and a number of variables (social background, residence in old weatherboard housing, residence on busy roads, pica) describing exposure to sources of lead was analysed.
  • (4) Bargain of the week Four-bed detached, with sweet weatherboarding, great sea views and gardens; needs modernising; £280,000, with Ward & Partners (01227 772272).
  • (5) Instead he returned home, where he worked in the office of prime minister John Gorton – "a good man who got the boot from his own treacherous party" – and published his first solo volume, The Weatherboard Cathedral .

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.

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