The achenes produced by each capitulum are similar, possess a pappus of bristles that causes them to move upwind and a well-developed elaisome. |
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Four years later, in Sydney, Ainslie returned the favor, boxing Scheidt in on the first upwind leg and then hanging on for the overall victory. |
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A few minutes later, we reached the edge of the woods upwind of the dump and gasped clean air. |
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When they browse they move upwind, carefully sniffing and sifting the air for danger, their sharp-sighted eyes constantly on the alert. |
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The French team, which has struggled this week, sailed a strong race, with a good start, and a solid upwind leg. |
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Duck hunters normally put out decoys in open water, then row upwind and anchor their sneakbox. |
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Sailing back as the day cools, I take the boat out through the anchored yachts and begin the upwind journey home. |
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And a medical colleague of his, Dr Alan Preece, says lung cancer is more common downwind of power lines than upwind. |
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Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks. |
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Does it make sense for us to promote and increase industrial development upwind? |
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Wind strength was also variable resulting in different upwind courses being taken for all four races. |
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If there is an attack, leave the area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind stream. |
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Drive perpendicular to the direction of the prevalent winds and begin upwind from the area of active soil erosion. |
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You'll hear sounds originating upwind from your house better than those originating closer to home on the downwind side. |
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Of course, it is late in the day, and the lift always seems to be the worse on the upwind legs. |
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For the flight experiments, two odour sources were placed at the upwind end of the wind tunnel. |
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At the Australian Open in Deniliquin I was inclined to call difficult tasks with upwind legs. |
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The objective of the delivery was to drop the rafts so that they landed upwind, and to either side of the victims. |
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The basic advantage of upwind designs is that one avoids the wind shade behind the tower. |
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They are in for some upwind sailing on the port tack, in seas that are likely to get steadily rougher. |
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Upon observing the damage, the captain immediately ordered a rapid disembarkation and that the passengers be moved upwind of the aircraft. |
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I could see off Brazil and as I went through the Doldrums, that as soon as I'm upwind and the wind eases off, Roxy is much faster than me. |
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These ships were especially effective when sailing upwind or to windward. |
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To comply with the balloon flight manual, the balloon should have landed and remained at least 700Â feet upwind of the power lines. |
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I tacked upwind a few hundred yards and began slicing down the smooth, right-breaking faces, trying to stay focused on the sharp coral just below the surface. |
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The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all. |
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In theory, we'll be setting out sailing upwind with some rough seas and it's going to be wet. |
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The arrows on the upwind side indicate how aircraft can join this side from different directions before entering the circuit as such. |
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Warning: If the action of the currents is stronger than that of the wind, the slick may move upwind. |
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Before bedding down, a moose usually travels upwind for a time and then swings back in a partial circle. |
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The influence of upwind and above-surface air pollution on surface ozone trends was discussed. |
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At least one monitoring station should be located upwind and downwind of the major sources with respect to the prevailing wind direction. |
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With an upwind sail area close to 300 m², this catamaran guarantees a good performance and a great feeling. |
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I concluded that the building's smallest cross-sectional area would have to be located just upwind of the living area and not at the exit opening. |
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Unfortunately, the long over-hangs, broad bilges, shallow draft and centerboards encouraged by the rule do not make for a boat that is particularly fast upwind. |
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The Kiwis were now the upwind boat and on the inside track to the finishing line. |
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So we're in for some upwind sailing, then we will change tack and finish upwind on the starboard tack. |
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In addition an upwind machine needs a yaw mechanism to keep the rotor facing the wind. |
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The A319 rudder system does not reduce the available travel on the upwind side of the sideslip compared with the lee side. |
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Regrettably, dead upwind is the only point of sail on which Van Liew's lightweight Open 50 does not flourish. |
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Sleeping quarters should be upwind from the cooking, latrine and waste disposal sites. |
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He made some upwind touch-and-go landings in a westerly direction, as he was accustomed to doing. |
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This is called an upwind design. Technology Quarterly Look into my eyes Any mileage in the idea? |
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The aircraft took off at approximately 1300 eastern daylight time, and made several upwind touch-and-go landings in a westerly direction. |
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Troops would have been stationed upwind of the explosion so would not have suffered any significant radioactive fall-out, though there may have been a small risk of exposure. |
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A lack of power in the mainsail means not only reduced speed, but it also makes it more difficult to stay on track, heading upwind. |
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Evacuate personnel to upwind of the spill area, and position at a safe distance. |
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The basic advantage of the downwind machine is thus, that it may be built somewhat lighter than an upwind machine. |
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Once again, this was a team effort and I'm particularly pleased, as we went through a lot in this leg with a wide range of conditions: upwind sailing in breezy conditions to downwind in light winds? |
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Indeed, most species must run upwind across the water's surface with wings flapping to generate sufficient lift to take flight. |
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There are still no trade winds established down here and it is in a southerly breeze that Safran is having to sail by tacking upwind to make her way to Guadeloupe. |
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That was until PRB changed tack and began his sprint on the port tack on a direct route for Vendée, while at the same time, Bonduelle was struggling upwind on a variable course. |
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With the seas remaining rough on a point of sail close to upwind, the trimaran's speeds are oscillating between 20 and 30 knots at the mercy of the light gusts and small shifts in the breeze. |
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Moving from an upwind point of sail, close-hauled to a quartering wind, breeze on the back, the two sailors will be able to lengthen their stride. |
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This air flow will impose an upwind point of sail which, as we are regularly reminded, doesn't sit too well with the 33 metre catamaran: Our last few miles upwind will be very uncomfortable both for the boat and for the men. |
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I had a bit of everything,» explained Marc, «from upwind to downwind, from moderate conditions to light winds? which meant a lot of manoeuvres, so tiredness too, but I also learnt a lot about the sails and the boat. |
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Formidable upwind, it is capable of great acceleration downwind and has also demonstrated that it is as much as at ease in the light airs as strong breeze. |
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We're going upwind, with 20-26 knots and in sunshine: we're loving it! |
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We're sailing upwind, but it's not very violent, so that's fine. |
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That is because the blades, being behind the pole and at an angle to it, can be given more freedom to yaw about than they would have in an upwind turbine. |
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In addition to an isolated low-rise building, tests were also performed for cases in which an adjacent building was upwind or downwind of the emitting building. |
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For years, upwind states could dump part of the cost of pollution onto their neighbours, while reaping all the benefits of the factories that caused it. |
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States can even be upwind for some emissions and downwind for others. |
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But Team USA refrained from using the technique, which requires boats to sail at 45 degrees to the wind and to turn frequently, while going upwind, for fear that they would lose speed while turning. |
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A scientist who is quite well known for his work in this area talked about how the plant and animal species downwind of the major cities were in fact different from those in areas upwind. |
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Fight fire from upwind and keep all non-essential personnel out of area. |
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A cross-wind component during take-off can produce additional lift by increasing the velocity of the air flowing over the upwind wing, but it will not cause the aircraft to nose down. |
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Jurisdictions should identify one or more monitoring sites upwind of the non-compliant community in question, located between the community and the major source area that may be affecting the community. |
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Having started and warmed up your motor upwind of the canopy, attach yourself to the power unit, face the canopy, approach the risers and clip them on to the appropriate mallions. |
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The Klepper is designed for full upwind sailing. |
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Urban background sites shall be located so that their pollution level is influenced by the integrated contribution from all sources upwind of the station. |
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On 20 July the English fleet was off Eddystone Rocks, with the Armada upwind to the west. |
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That night, in order to execute their attack, the English tacked upwind of the Armada, thus gaining the weather gage, a significant advantage. |
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When sailing upwind the apparent wind is greater than the true wind and the direction of the apparent wind will be forward of the true wind. |
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Two of the legs are upwind, or sailing against the wind, and the other two legs are downwind, or sailing with the wind. |
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The third leg is basically a repeat of the first leg where they beat upwind going towards the windward mark. |
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They track across the wind until they find a scent and then follow it upwind to its origin. |
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Simple parabolic dunes have only one set of arms that trail upwind, behind the leading nose. |
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Any solid object produces a wake behind it, leading to fatigue failures, so the turbine is usually positioned upwind of its supporting tower. |
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In upwind designs, turbine blades must be made stiff to prevent the blades from being pushed into the tower by high winds. |
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Oquendo, the other six Dunkirk ships and the San Juan, unable to turn upwind, fired as they could. |
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However, it has a low modulus allowing too much stretch to be suitable for upwind sails. |
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Other terms with broadly the same meaning are widely used, particularly upwind and downwind. |
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Leeward and windward refer respectively to what a game stalker would call downwind and upwind. |
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In the case of an archipelago, windward islands are upwind and leeward islands are the downwind ones. |
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In almost all of this trajectory, the sailing ship is going with the current and usually upwind. |
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Following the African coast southbound means upwind in the Southern hemisphere. |
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They positioned their fires upwind of Nathanial so as to ensure he smelt the food cooking on the open spit fires. |
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There's a small bowsprit to fly a cruising chute and the overlapping genoa should give plenty of pulling power upwind. |
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Wild Oats XI has had extensive hull surgery, with the forward rudder removed and replaced with twin retractable centreboards to improve both upwind and downwind speed. |
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Leeboards and centerboards, used to stabilize the junk and to improve its capability to sail upwind, are documented from a 759 AD book by Li Chuan. |
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Although the lateen sail allowed sailing upwind to some extent, it was worth even major extensions of course to have a faster and calmer following wind for most of a journey. |
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The increase in velocity with altitude is most dramatic near the surface and is affected by topography, surface roughness, and upwind obstacles such as trees or buildings. |
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Dome dunes are rare and occur at the far upwind margins of sand seas. |
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Another parallel line of pushers far upwind of the deer, spread out equidistantly, very slowly walks directly toward the shooters, driving any deer in between toward them. |
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