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What does downwind mean?

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Adverb
  1. in the same direction as the wind is blowing
  2. (from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
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I cranked up the speed and spent the next hour and a half climbing fast and screaming downwind.
The fumes wend their way downwind for a week or more, whichever direction the wind is heading.
With erosion on the windward slope and deposition in the lee, the dune body moves in a downwind direction.
As I finished each of the major rooms I took the vacuum out to empty straight into the trash and gave the dusters a jolly good shake downwind.
As each flight started on the downwind leg the ships reformed in an echelon to the right and completed before-landing checklists.
The downwardly curved petiole twists away from the wind, so its ventral surface points downwind.

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