"Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands The Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands. The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisted of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica (to 1940). Prior to 1871, when the Supreme Court was established, the individual islands had their own courts. In 1939 the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal were established, which was replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which"
"""windward"" is the side of an island where the predominant wind travels from the sea onto the island. ""Leeward"" is the side of an island where the predominant wind travels from the interior of the island to the sea. The definition of ""leeward"" is based on its usage: Adjective: on the side away from the wind; ""on the leeward side of the island"". Adverb: toward [in the direction of] the wind; ""they were sailing leeward"". Noun: the side of something that is sheltered from the wind, or the direction in which the wind is blowing; ""to the leeward"". ""The traditional"
"nautical pronunciations are the elided forms /ˈljuːərd/[1] and /ˈwɪnərd/, pronounced ""loowerd"" where the first syllable is spoken very briefly, almost as ""l'ward"". The literal pronunciations, /ˈliːwərd/ and /ˈwɪndwərd/, are now more common, and ""lee"" by itself is always pronounced as it is spelled. The pronunciation for the Leeward and Windward Islands and the Leeward Antilles is normally the latter form, with the long ""e""."" The windward shore is a lee shore for vessels traveling offshore, and that shore is ""to leeward"" of the vessel, but that does not make it the leeward shore of the island. Although the terms are"
"Lee shore Lee shore, sometimes also called leeward and ward shore, is a nautical term used to describe a stretch of shoreline that is to the lee side of a vessel — meaning the wind is blowing towards it. A weather shore has the wind blowing from inland over it out to sea. For example, a person standing on a shore when the wind is blowing out to sea (or any large body of water) is standing on a weather shore. If the wind is blowing into shore from the sea, the person is on a lee shore. By definition,"
"the ""lee shore"" of the land face opposite directions. To someone on a vessel, the shore to lee of the vessel is the lee shore, and since that is the shore the wind reaches first, to someone on the shore it is the windward shore. ""Lee"" historically means ""shelter"". Standing on the leeward side of the vessel, a sailor observes being blown towards an exposed shoreline by the wind. Here again the reference point from which a shore is viewed determines whether it is the lee shore or a leeward shore. On a lake, the reference point is a body"
"often confused, ""the lee shore"" is different from ""a leeward shore"" based on the reference point from which the shore is viewed. Notice the different articles ""the"" and ""a"" — ""the"" windward or leeward shore versus ""a"" lee shore. The shore that is a lee shore changes based on the reference point, which is the vessel from which the island or lake shore is viewed, and of which the island or lake shore is in the lee. The leeward shore does not change based on the position of the vessel. This means that the ""leeward side"" of the vessel and"
"Leeway Leeway is the amount of drift motion to leeward of an object floating in the water caused by the component of the wind vector that is perpendicular to the object’s forward motion. The National Search and Rescue Supplement to the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual defines leeway as ""the movement of a search object through water caused by winds blowing against exposed surfaces"". However, the resultant total motion of an object is made up of the leeway drift and the movement of the upper layer of the ocean caused by the surface currents, tidal currents and"
"the leeward side of the helm – hence the term ""Lee Helm"" – to assist the helmsman in controlling the wheel while coming about or when the vessel is laboring in high winds or an extreme sea state. Lee helm Lee helm is the tendency of a sailboat to turn away from the wind while under sail. It is the opposite of weather helm which is the tendency of a sailboat to ""round up"" into the wind. A boat with lee helm will be difficult to sail Close Hauled and tacking may be difficult. Lee helm is considered dangerous in"
"Leeboard A leeboard is a lifting foil used by a sailboat, much like a centreboard, but located on the leeward side of the boat. The leeward side is used so that the leeboard is not lifted from the water when the boat heels, or leans under the force of the wind. Leeboards existed in China from at least the eighth century on warships that ""held the ships, so that even when wind and wave arise in fury, they are neither driven sideways, nor overturn"". Leeboards used to stabilize the junk and to improve its capability to sail upwind, are documented"
"Weather helm Weather helm is the tendency of sailing vessels to turn towards the source of wind, creating an unbalanced helm that requires pulling the tiller to windward (i.e. 'to weather') in order to counteract the effect. Weather helm is the opposite of lee helm. It is generally less troublesome than ""Lee helm"". Weather helm is the result of a leeward and aft shift of a vessel's vector center of effort (the direction to which the force generated by the sails is pushing). This shift is caused by excess pressure on the mainsail, which overpowers the windward lateral resistance generated"
"be retracted, to reduce drag. Unlike centreboards, which are symmetric along the boat's axis, leeboards are often asymmetric, so that they more efficiently provide lift in one direction. Some fast racing scows use bilgeboards, which are mounted between the centreline of the hull and the sides, so they can use a pair of asymmetric foils for maximum lift and minimum drag. Leeboard A leeboard is a lifting foil used by a sailboat, much like a centreboard, but located on the leeward side of the boat. The leeward side is used so that the leeboard is not lifted from the water"
"Holding the weather, or windward, gage conferred several important tactical advantages. The admiral holding the weather gage held the tactical initiative, able to accept battle by bearing down on his opponent or to refuse it, by remaining upwind. The fleet with the lee gage could avoid battle by withdrawing to leeward, but could not force action. Even retreating downwind could be difficult once two fleets were at close quarters because the ships risked being raked as they turned downwind. A second disadvantage of the leeward gage was that in anything more than a light wind, a sailing ship that is"
"“the opposite or ‘other’ to women and girls from the West”. Binary opposition A nebular opposition (also binary system) is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Binary opposition is the system by which language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such distinctions as fundamental to all language and thought. In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen"
"towards the leeward mark. The leeward mark is positioned directly downwind from the windward mark, below the start/finish line. Sailors also round this mark counter-clockwise. After rounding, competitors head upwind to cross the finish line. In Bermuda, the Bermuda rig, now almost universal on small sailing vessels, can still be seen in its purest form in the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy, used for a series of races contested each year by the colony's yacht clubs. The first race of this type was held in 1880, as a way of reducing the costs then experienced racing larger Bermudian sloops, with their similarly-larger"
"there are ""backward-wave"" solutions in which group and phase velocity are opposite to one another. This occurs in ""left-handed"" negative index metamaterials for electromagnetism and also for acoustic waves in certain solid materials, and in these cases the standard PML formulation is unstable: it leads to exponential growth rather than decay, simply because the sign of ""k"" is flipped in the analysis above. Fortunately, there is a simple solution in a left-handed medium (for which all waves are backwards): merely flip the sign of σ. A complication, however, is that physical left-handed materials are dispersive: they are only left-handed within"
"severe action, leaving Britain with an unreachable numerical superiority. Therefore, they preferred to engage to leeward, a position which left them free to retreat before the wind. They allowed the British fleet to get to windward, and, when it was parallel with them and bore up before the wind to attack, they moved onwards. The attacking fleet had then to advance, not directly before the wind with its ships moving along lines perpendicular to the line attacked, but in slanting or curving lines. The assailants would be thrown into ""a bow and quarter line"" – with the bow of the"
"into windward (""Koolau"") and leeward (""Kona"") regions based upon location relative to the higher mountains. Windward sides face the east to northeast trade winds and receive much more rainfall; leeward sides are drier and sunnier, with less rain and less cloud cover. In South America, the Andes mountain range blocks Pacific moisture that arrives in that continent, resulting in a desertlike climate just downwind across western Argentina. The Sierra Nevada range creates the same effect in North America forming the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. Similarly, in Asia, the Himalaya mountains create an obstacle to monsoons which leads to extremely"
"it weather or lee, is the relationship of the center of pressure of the sail plan to the center of lateral resistance of the hull. If the center of pressure is astern of the center of lateral resistance, a weather helm, the tendency of the vessel is to want to turn into the wind. If the situation is reversed, with the center of pressure forward of the center of lateral resistance of the hull, a ""lee"" helm will result, which is generally considered undesirable, if not dangerous. Too much of either helm is not good, since it forces the helmsman"
"Some pairs of contronyms are true homographs, i.e., distinct words with different etymology which happen to have the same form. For instance ""cleave"" ""separate"" is from Old English ""clēofan"", while ""cleave"" ""adhere"" is from Old English ""clifian"", which was pronounced differently. The King James Bible often uses ""let"" in the sense of ""forbid"", a meaning which is now uncommon, and which is derived from the Old English verb ""lettan"" 'hinder, delay, impede, oppress', as opposed to the meaning ""allow"", which is derived from the Old English verb ""lǣtan"" 'leave, allow, let on lease (etc.)'. Still, the alternate meaning of ""let"""
"the wind come from one side of the sail only. Because the lateral wind forces are highest on a sailing vessel, close-hauled and beating to windward, the resisting water forces around the vessel's keel, centerboard, rudder and other foils is also highest to mitigate leeway—the vessel sliding to leeward of its course. Ice boats and land yachts minimize lateral motion with sidewise resistance from their blades or wheels. ""Tacking"" or ""coming about"" is a maneuver by which a sailing craft turns its bow into and through the wind (called the ""eye of the wind"") so that the apparent wind changes"
"to the right. Contrary - your contrary is not your partner. In Playford's original notation, this term meant the same thing that ""Corner"" (or sometimes ""Opposite"") means today. Corner - in a two-couple set, the dancer diagonally opposite, i.e., the first man and the second woman, first woman and second man. Counter-clockwise - the opposite of clockwise - in a ring, move right. In a ""turn single"", turn to the left. Cross hands - face and give left to left and right to right. Cross over or Pass - change places with another dancer moving forward and passing by the"
"layers with high vertical shear in the velocity profiles of wind and current, Fitzgerald et al. (1993) proposed an operational definition of leeway that helped standardize atmospheric and oceanic reference levels: Leeway is the velocity vector of the SAR object relative to the downwind direction at the search object as it moves relative to the surface current as measured between 0.3m and 1.0m depth caused by winds (adjusted to a reference height of 10m) and waves."" This definition has limitations, as it does not address the asymmetry of non-standard search objects. For example, deep draft vessels and/or swamped vessels exceed"
"Clockwise Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions. A clockwise (typically abbreviated as CW) motion is one that proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands: from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back up to the top. The opposite sense of rotation or revolution is (in North American English) counterclockwise (CCW) or (in Commonwealth English) anticlockwise (ACW). Before clocks were commonplace, the terms ""sunwise"" and ""deasil"", ""deiseil"" and even ""deocil"" from the Scottish Gaelic language and from the same root as the Latin ""dexter"" (""right"") were used for clockwise. ""Widdershins"""
"running before a good breeze. In a light wind, the charge would be ineffective, and it could not be made at all from leeward. It could still board, and the Spanish did for long make it their main object to run their bow over an enemy's sides, and invade the deck. In order to carry out this kind of attack they would naturally try to get to windward and then bear down before the wind in line abreast ship upon ship. But an opponent to leeward could always baffle this attack by edging away, and in the meantime fire with"
"rigged craft, for instance, can point only slightly to windward. It is possible for a sailing vessel to become trapped along a lee shore, with the only recourse being to use an engine, or use anchors to kedge out. The beach of a lee shore in a storm is also at a significantly higher risk due to the undiminished effects of the wind and waves. Because of this, it is always preferable to travel along a windward shore, especially in inclement weather. A windward shore will have significantly lower waves and slower winds, because they will have been slowed by"
"thus the western side of the Caribbean islands, the leeward side (in French, ""côte sous le vent""), protected from the trade winds, was called the ""Basse-Terre"" (""Down Land"") in 17th-century French because it is situated downwind compared to the eastern side of the Caribbean islands, the windward side (in French, ""côte au vent""), which is exposed to the trade winds and was called the ""Cabesterre"". This distinction between a ""Basse-Terre"" (western side of an island) and a ""Cabesterre"" (eastern side of an island) was used in several Caribbean islands colonized by France. The capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis, for"
"from windward would not be able to bring her heavy lower-deck guns into action, while the enemy ship to leeward would have no such problem as the guns on her windward side would be raised by the heel. For this reason, Admiral Rodney ordered his ships to attack the Spanish from leeward in the stormy weather at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780. In the French Navy, sailing tactics were developed by the treatises of the French tacticians Paul Hoste, Bigot de Morogues and Bourde de Villehuet, which developed the traditional code of practice and were all translated"
"line that has developed into a wave-like pattern due to acceleration at one end of the line and deceleration along the portion immediately adjacent."" A LEWP is an extension of the concept of the bow echo, which usually indicates a powerful convective windstorm. Areas hit by the apices of bows often see the worst weather, with the highest winds and very heavy rain. However, if the sides of the bows reach enough of an orientation parallel to the derecho's movement, a very long-duration heavy rain event can result, leading to flash flooding. A serial derecho can be in the form"
"helm would experience. See ""Sailing Theory and Practice"" by C.A. Marchaj for a mathematical analysis of the dynamics of weather helm. Weather helm Weather helm is the tendency of sailing vessels to turn towards the source of wind, creating an unbalanced helm that requires pulling the tiller to windward (i.e. 'to weather') in order to counteract the effect. Weather helm is the opposite of lee helm. It is generally less troublesome than ""Lee helm"". Weather helm is the result of a leeward and aft shift of a vessel's vector center of effort (the direction to which the force generated by"
"need for constant novelty and change. The meaning of neophile approaches and is not mutually exclusive to the term visionary, but differs in that a neophile actively seeks first-hand experience of novelty rather than merely pontificating about it. The opposite of a neophile is a neophobe; a person with an aversion to novelty and change. Wilson observes that neophobes tend to regard neophiles, especially extreme ones, with fear and contempt, and to brand them with titles such as ""witch,"" ""satanist,"" ""heretic,"" etc. He also speculates in his Prometheus Rising series of books that the industrial revolution and related enlightenment represents"
"Islands in the north, and the Leeward Antilles in the west. The Windward Islands are so called because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds blow east to west. The trans-Atlantic currents and winds that provided the fastest route across the ocean brought these ships to the rough dividing line between the Windward and Leeward Islands. The Leeward Antilles consist of the Dutch ABC islands just off the coast of Venezuela, plus a group of Venezuelan islands. The Lesser Antilles more or less coincide with"
"Binary opposition A nebular opposition (also binary system) is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Binary opposition is the system by which language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such distinctions as fundamental to all language and thought. In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen as a fundamental organizer of human philosophy, culture, and language. Binary"
"and akas always in the same direction. Where a tacking boat must have stays on both sides of the mast, with only one set under tension at a time, the layout of the proa requires stays on only one side, where they are under tension on all points of sail. Having the ama to the windward side also allows the use of materials like bamboo for the akas—the akas only need to be able to bear the weight of the ama, which is countered by the tension on the stays. Leeward akas, on the other hand, would need to bear"