Windward vs Downward - What's the difference?
windward | downward |
Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing.
On the side exposed to the wind.
In a direction from which the wind blows, against the wind.
The direction from which the wind blows.
* 1840 , (Richard Henry Dana), Two Years before the Mast
The side receiving the wind's force.
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
As adjectives the difference between windward and downward
is that windward is towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing while downward is moving or sloping down.As adverbs the difference between windward and downward
is that windward is in a direction from which the wind blows, against the wind while downward is toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.As a noun windward
is the direction from which the wind blows.windward
English
(wikipedia windward)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* upwindAntonyms
* leewardDerived terms
* Windward IslandsAdverb
- ''We beat our way windward .
Noun
- A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her. A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
See also
* weather gaugedownward
English
Adverb
(en-adv) (or downwards )- His position in society moved ever downward .
- Their heads they downward bent.
- A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.