weather
IPA: wˈɛðɝ
noun
- The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- (countable, figuratively) A situation.
- (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
- (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
verb
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
- (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
adjective
- (sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
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Examples of "weather" in Sentences
- : Check out @weather to get the latest weather news.
- The term weather refers to the short term changes in the physical characteristics of the troposphere.
- Of course it helps that the weather is almost always sunny and dry and there is ample public parking nearby.
- Right now, the weather is superatmospheric and therefore, in a sense, supermeteorological (can you really call it weather?)
- When clouds settle on the tops of mountains, they indicate hard weather; and when the tops of mountains are clear, it is a sign of fair weather*
- Yup, I can hear the echoes of it now, underneath the sounds of a squadron of pigs flying: "Uh, don't assume that many people will come out and buy tickets, you know the weather is always dicey in Portland until July."
- "Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological factors in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity."
- When we remind our young readers that the thermometer in England seldom falls so low as zero, except in what we term weather of the utmost severity, they may imagine -- or rather, they may try to imagine -- what 75° _below_ zero must have been.
- When we remind our young readers that the thermometer in England seldom falls so low as zero, except in what we term weather of the utmost severity, they may imagine -- or, rather, they may try to imagine -- what 75 degrees _below_ zero must have been.
- "Not often: if it is to be done in warm weather, I smoke them well before I begin; _in very cold weather_ is the best time, then it is unnecessary; simply turn the hive bottom up, mark off the proper size, and with a sharp saw take it off without trouble."
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