Windward

Definition

windward /'wÇndwǝd/ adj, adv ေလညာ။ ေလတင္။ the windward side of the boat. Compare LEE, LEEWARD n [U] ေလညာအရပ္။ sail to windward.

Examples

1. ‘You place a capsule full of powder in the windward side of the propeller
2. slide the sleeve down to puncture holes in the side of the capsule
3. then suck hard through the sleeve.’
4. ‘I spot a ten kilometer ridge line south of the road near Wandella forty kilometers from the goal at Rankin Springs and head into the wind to get on the windward side of it hoping to catch a thermal climbing up on it.’
5. ‘Using sticky yellow polythene sheets
6. which are erected vertically on the windward side of the fields and nurseries
7. can help ward off these vectors.’
8. ‘The location is typical of an Amerindian settlement in that it is located on the windward side of the island (a location more difficult for enemy landings due to the constant battering of wind and waves).’
9. ‘On Bamboo Island
10. the coral on the windward side was mostly destroyed
11. but otherwise it was the perfect white-sand island I'd first seen 15 years before.’
12. ‘Meanwhile
13. tactics aside
14. we still have to sail
15. and this consists of throwing our weight onto the windward side
16. cramming wetly against the rail
17. and moving across as smoothly and quickly as possible whenever Shirley calls a sudden tack.’
18. ‘Thirty-one years ago
19. when Cyclone Bebe inundated Funafuti
20. its waves tossed coral rubble onto the windward side of the atoll
21. creating a rampart that still stands as the highest point on the motu.’
22. ‘On the windward side of the Tetons and the Salt Range to the south
23. this large flat area hasn't been under water for at least twenty three years as the west continues to be dry.’
24. ‘Rainfall is often heavy especially in the interior near the mountains and on the windward sides of the large islands.’
25. ‘Indeed
26. sometimes the mountains and hills will make the clouds drop all of their rain on the windward side leaving little or no rain as the system moves across the rest of the country.’
27. ‘On the eastern side is the Koolau Range
28. whose spectacular fissured cliffs front the windward side of the island.’
29. ‘On the windward side of the island there are numerous narrow
30. powdery beaches and deserted rocky coves.’
31. ‘The glides have been pretty reasonable up to this point
32. but suddenly I'm falling like a rock as I try to push into the hills to get under the clouds
33. thinking that I'm on the windward side of a spur.’
34. ‘On calm days
35. dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks
36. hammerheads
37. mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.’
38. ‘A temporary solution is to open a window to let in a little make up air
39. preferably on the windward side of the house.’
40. ‘It is on the windward side of the island and so the full force of the Atlantic winds and waves sweeps in against it
41. pushing up a thirty-yard breadth of sand.’
42. ‘Placed too high up on a sailboat's mast
43. the radar might miss seeing a nearby target on the windward side when a boat is heeled over.’
44. ‘He said the Sea King helicopters on Manoora are vital in taking resources including police to the windward side of the island group.’
45. ‘As the air moves up the windward side of the mountain it cools down
46. and again if the air becomes saturated then cloud is formed which
47. if below the top of the hills
48. gives fog.’
49. ‘Mauka Makai Excursions offers archaeological and hiking tours of the windward side of Oahu.’