"upwind" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ʌpˈwɪnd/ Audio: En-us-upwind.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-upwind1.wav Forms: more upwind [comparative], most upwind [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪnd Etymology: From up- + wind. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|up|wind}} up- + wind Head templates: {{en-adj}} upwind (comparative more upwind, superlative most upwind)
  1. exposed to the wind Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-upwind-en-adj-DNa0g46n Disambiguation of Wind: 30 15 21 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Adverb

IPA: /ʌpˈwɪnd/ Audio: En-us-upwind.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-upwind1.wav Forms: more upwind [comparative], most upwind [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪnd Etymology: From up- + wind. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|up|wind}} up- + wind Head templates: {{en-adv}} upwind (comparative more upwind, superlative most upwind)
  1. in the direction from which the wind is blowing Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-upwind-en-adv-oTmaNth2 Disambiguation of Wind: 30 15 21 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ʌpˈwaɪnd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-upwind2.wav Forms: upwinds [present, singular, third-person], upwinding [participle, present], upwound [participle, past], upwound [past]
Rhymes: -aɪnd Etymology: From Middle English upwinden, equivalent to up- + wind (verb). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|upwinden}} Middle English upwinden, {{prefix|en|up|wind|pos2=verb}} up- + wind (verb) Head templates: {{en-verb|upwinds|upwinding|upwound}} upwind (third-person singular simple present upwinds, present participle upwinding, simple past and past participle upwound)
  1. (transitive, archaic) To wind upwards. Tags: archaic, transitive Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-upwind-en-verb-gt3ts7Ul Disambiguation of Wind: 30 15 21 33
  2. (transitive, archaic) To wind up (a mechanism). Tags: archaic, transitive Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-upwind-en-verb-rl-ms~Ur Disambiguation of Wind: 30 15 21 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms prefixed with up-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 12 6 60 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 13 11 8 68 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with up-: 15 11 10 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 12 9 69 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 7 9 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.