Usage of "wind sleeve"

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A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.

Sinònims

Examples for "sock"

The sock electrode rendered external defibrillation impossible, however, even at 360 J. 
 Pubmed 

The single-strap closure and inner sock lining allowed for a great fit. 
 Climbing Magazine 

A few times, she has seen Kang clutching a girl's unwashed sock. 
 The new yorker 

Twice she crossed the room in search of a little missing sock. 
 Doctor Pascal 

All day long, the sock does its frantic routine in the gallery. 
 The Guardian 

Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute. 
 The Quantum Jump 

They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue. 
 The Guardian 

They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system. 
 Wired 

Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard. 
 The Pariah 

The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today. 
 Wired 

Known him for years. Then he looked at the helipad's windsock. 
 Chelsea chelsea bang bang 

There came a horrible gargling cry; the man's tongue flapped like a windsock. 
 The Child Thief 

I was dressed in this kind of orange windsock, with a hideous black wig. 
 The Guardian 

But their landing strip was dry, the windsock limp. 
 The Descent 

He saw a long strip of white cloth flying from a pole as a windsock. 
 Acts of faith 

A tattered wind sock was barely visible, flying from a long curving pole. 
 White Hunter, Black Heart 

You scoop the air into it like a wind sock and use the roll-top to seal it up. 
 The Irish Times 

Away from wind socks, control towers, loud speakers, and beams scanning skies. 
 A singular man 

Aldric shattered more windows with his sword, and the force of the wind socked the car harder. 
 Samurai 

"It's been lousy." He looked up at the wind sock. 
 Alas, Babylon 

It was air -socks capitalism where we were socializing the losses and privatizing the gains. 
 The new yorker 

The app's display shows a series of concentric circles representing something parachutists call a wind cone. 
 Wired 

Problem is, when you're parachuting, you don't have a good way of knowing when you're in the wind cone. 
 Wired 

Translations for wind sleeve

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Significats de wind sleeve en anglès