weather
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈwɛðə/]
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Senses
1. weather (noun) — sense 1
Definition: The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
Example: What's the weather like today?
2. weather (noun) — sense 2
Definition: Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
Example: Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
3. weather (noun) — sense 3
Definition: The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
Example: One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
4. weather (adj) — sense 4
Definition: Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
Example: weather side, weather helm
5. weather (verb) — sense 5
Definition: To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
Example: The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
6. weather (verb) — sense 6
Definition: To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
Example: April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute
You will weather the difficulties yet.
7. weather (verb) — sense 7
Definition: To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
Structure of the word
Roots:- h₂weh₁ (Proto-Indo-European)
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