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Meaning of "trade wind" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRADE WIND

From to blow trade to blow steadily in one direction, from trade in the obsolete sense: a track.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TRADE WIND

wɪnd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRADE WIND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Trade wind is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRADE WIND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Trade wind

The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator. The trade winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere, strengthening during the winter and when the Arctic oscillation is in its warm phase. Historically, the trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries, and enabled European empire expansion into the Americas and trade routes to become established across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In meteorology, the trade winds act as the steering flow for tropical storms that form over the Atlantic, Pacific, and southern Indian Oceans and make landfall in North America, Southeast Asia, and Madagascar and eastern Africa, respectively. Trade winds also steer African dust westward across the Atlantic Ocean into the Caribbean Sea, as well as portions of southeastern North America.

Definition of trade wind in the English dictionary

The definition of trade wind in the dictionary is a wind blowing obliquely towards the equator either from the northeast in the N hemisphere or the southeast in the S hemisphere, approximately between latitudes 30° N and S, forming part of the planetary wind system.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRADE WIND

behind · blind · combined · contained · determined · find · Ind · kind · lined · mind · one-of-a-kind · pinned · remind · Sind · stained · sustained · tinned · trained · undefined · wind

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRADE WIND

trade journal · trade mission · trade name · trade on · trade paper · trade plate · trade price · trade reference · trade returns · trade route · trade school · trade secret · trade surplus · trade talks · trade union · trade unionism · trade unionist · trade up · trade war · trade-in

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRADE WIND

berg wind · break wind · broken wind · close to the wind · following wind · gale-force wind · have in the wind · hurricane-force wind · in the teeth of the wind · in the wind · into the wind · off the wind · on the wind · raise the wind · rewind · sail close to the wind · second wind · solar wind · straw in the wind · the eye of the wind · three sheets in the wind

Synonyms and antonyms of trade wind in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «trade wind» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRADE WIND

Find out the translation of trade wind to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of trade wind from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trade wind» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

贸易风
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

vientos alisios
570 millions of speakers
en

English

trade wind
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

व्यापार पवन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرياح التجارية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

пассат
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

vento de comércio
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বাণিজ্য বাতাস
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

alizé
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Angin perdagangan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Passatwind
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

貿易風
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

무역 바람
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Angin perdagangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gió thương mại
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வர்த்தக காற்று
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

व्यापार हवा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Ticaret rüzgarı
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

commercio vento
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pasat
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

пасат
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

vânt comerț
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άνεμος εμπόριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

handel wind
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Trade Wind
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

passaten
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRADE WIND»

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Adventures in the Trade Wind
This is at once the biography of an Englishman who became the pioneering charterboat skipper of an American yacht, and a history of the charterboat business in the islands.
Richard Dey, 2009
2
Trade Wind Danger
Carolyn Keene. ALL NEW ALL NEW ALL NEW Trade Wind Danger San Francisco has tons to offer tourists like Bess, George, and me. Fresh crabs, cable cars, hikes — and stalkers! Well, maybe stalkers is a little harsh, but this older couple, ...
Carolyn Keene, 2012
3
Water vapor distribution in the sub-cloud trade wind air
OBSERVATIONS OF THE MIXING RATIO WERE MADE SIMULTANEOUSLY AT THREE LEVELS IN THE SUB-CLOUD LAYER OF THE TRADE WIND EAST OF THE Bahama island of Eleuthera.
Andrew F. Bunker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1962
4
A Trade Wind Season
Melissa resolves to remain only a shipmate and friend to the captain while she works as a gourmet chef aboard a yacht bound for the Caribbean.
Kathleen Mix, 2002
5
Where the Trade-Wind Blows; West Indian Tales
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Schuyler Crowninshield, 2010
6
The Encyclopedia of World Climatology
The highs shift with the seasons, affecting the location of the trade wind zone. In each hemisphere, subtropical anticyclones shift equatorward during winter, relative to their summer positions. In the northern hemisphere, with its relatively large ...
John E. Oliver, 2005
7
Trade Wind Inversion Variability, Dynamics and Future Change ...
Using 1979-2003 radiosonde data at Hilo and Lihu'e, Hawai'i, the trade-wind inversion (TWI) is found to occur approximately 82% of the time at each station, with average base heights of 2225 +/- 14.3 m (781.9 +/- 1.4 hPa) for Hilo and 2076 ...
Guangxia Cao, 2007
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The Climate of the Earth
These are the well-known "trade wind cumulus" that dominate the eastern halves of subtropical ocean areas. They are very regular formations when viewed from above, such as from the high volcanic peaks on the Big Island of Hawaii, where ...
Paul E. Lydolph, 1985
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Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas: With the Shipwreck ...
The former of these is called the north-east trade- wind, and the latter the south- east trade-wind. To ihii general statement there are however some exceptions ; the trade-winds are found to vary in both extent and direction, with the season of  ...
Charles Medyett Goodridge, 1832
10
The philosophical transactions and collections: abridged and ...
My Conjecture is, that our S W Wind is no other than an Eddy of the Trade-wind, reflected from America to us. Though we cannot fee the Eddy of Air, as we do that of Water-, yet we must be otherwise very sensible, that it makes a strong Recoil, ...
Royal society of London, 1747

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRADE WIND»

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1
Trade Winds Blow Ill for Hillary
In Australia in 2012, she was effusive, saying that the trade pact “sets the gold ... to suit the shifting winds — as Hillary did when she voted to authorize W.'s Iraq ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
2
Can GOP Bail Out Obama's Trade Deal?
Trade Winds: Now that the Democratic Party has taken the wind from its sails, Obama's much-desired Trans-Pacific Partnership trade package is officially in the ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jun 15»
3
Trade winds already blowing through NL Central
There are 50 days remaining before baseball's July 31 trade deadline, and the Cardinals shopping list has shifted and expanded in the past month because of ... «STLtoday.com, Jun 15»
4
Trade wind study bolstered by four more years of data
"This is the longest and also most reliable wind data you can get. ... "The northeast trade wind would blow directly over the Koolaus (and) this makes orographic ... «KITV Honolulu, Jan 15»
5
Global Warming Puzzle: A New Hypothesis On Why The Pacific …
Climate models predicted that the equatorial Pacific trade winds should weaken with increasing greenhouse gases, yet satellites and climate stations have ... «Science 2.0, Aug 14»
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UPDATE: Advisory Extended for Gusty Trade Winds
A surface low-pressure system 1,350 miles northeast of the state is driving the gusty trade winds, which forecasters said are expected to ease over the next ... «Big Island Now, Apr 14»
7
Wisynco acquires 50% stake in Trade Winds Citrus
Peter McConnell (left), managing director of Trade Winds Citrus, looks on as William Mahfood, director of Wisynco Group, puts pen to paper on the deal, ... «Jamaica Observer, Nov 13»
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Spindrift 2: The tradewind highway
“We could have a few gybes” to reposition ourselves to not get too close to the heart of the depression and keep the right trade wind angle. The passage at the ... «Scuttlebutt Sailing News, Nov 13»
9
Trade winds drop, and Hawaii gets muggy
Nowadays, experts say, these breezes, called trade winds, are declining, a drop that's ... The winds also help bring the rains, and their decline means less water. «Yahoo! News, Jun 13»
10
New study shows number of trade wind days decreasing
The number of days of northeast trade winds is decreasing, according to new research from the University of Hawaii. And while it means more days with muggy ... «Hawaii News Now, Oct 12»
REFERENCE
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