Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from or unaffected by wind; calm; unruffled.
- Wanting wind; out of breath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no wind; calm.
- adjective Wanting wind; out of breath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective devoid of
wind ;calm - adjective
out of breath
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without or almost without wind
Etymologies
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Examples
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The wind industry has received most of this $2 billion; today Angular Force Generation also known as windless windmill technology creates a new paradigm.
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The wind industry has received most of this $2 billion; today Angular Force Generation also known as windless windmill technology creates a new paradigm.
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The wind industry has received most of this $2 billion; today Angular Force Generation also known as windless windmill technology creates a new paradigm.
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In the _American Journal of Science_, 1-42-196, we are told of a yellow substance that fell by the bucketful upon a vessel, one "windless" night in June, in Pictou Harbor, Nova Scotia.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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A nice sunny windless day is the best day for me to hunt since your sights will stay sighted in and not have to worry about them.
In New York, what is the best weather for squirrels to come out? 2010
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The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the California Indian summer dreamed itself out in purple mists on the windless air.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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By the light of the garage lamps I could see that it was still snowing, a windless, silent snow.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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The quiet sun blazed down through the clear windless air and made a furnace of our hole in the sand.
Chapter 13 2010
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A perfect recipe for a stifling night is a sunny day, a windless night, with a cocktail of air pollution.
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A nice sunny windless day is the best day for me to hunt since your sights will stay sighted in and not have to worry about them.
In New York, what is the best weather for squirrels to come out? 2010
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