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climate

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Word definitions for climate in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "horizontal zone of the earth," Scottish, from Old French climat "region, part of the earth," from Latin clima (genitive climatis ) "region; slope of the Earth," from Greek klima "region, zone," literally "an inclination, slope," thus "slope ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Climate \Cli"mate\, n. [F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. ?, ?, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. ? to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean , v. i., and cf. Clime ...

Usage examples of climate.

There was puzzling evidence from all over the Altiplano that agricultural experiments of an advanced and scientific nature had been carried out, with great ingenuity and dedication, to try to compensate for the deterioration of the climate.

Anyway, it seems that one of their innumerable holidays was about to conclude on Amado III when the climate controller monitoring equipment took itself off-line to go hunting for this mythical suprahuman intelligence.

We also have tropical, twelve-hour-day-length climates that the Arachis hypogaea and Cocoyams require.

He had been recommended to go to a warmer climate, and had taken up his residence at Glouchester, where he died, which prevented us from attending him in his last moments.

The division of food into azotized and non-azotized is no doubt important, but the attempt to show that the first only is plastic or nutritive, while the second is simply calorifacient, or heat-producing, fails entirely in the face of the facts revealed by the study of man in different climates, and of numerous experiments in the feeding of animals.

Here they remained until the 26th, when they marched to Berber, and then to a camp ten miles north of the Atbara, where they arrived on the 4th of March, having covered a hundred and forty-four miles in six days and a half, a great feat in such a climate.

Each syndicate also shares a safety Bergen, weighing some 50 lbs, which contains a 24-hour ration pack, a radio, one change of clothes and a bivvy bag, enough for the YOs to survive if Dartmoor turns the climate on its head.

Some said it was the science of a bygone age that had changed the climate and reduced most of the world to blasted desert, but Sorak knew it was defiler magic.

The cloacal climate would have been affliction enough, but it bred various other torments, chief among them the jungle vermin.

Duchess of Parma, who, like all the French princesses, could not be reconciled to the climate of Italy.

He talked of the cowardliness of suicide, complained of the small extent and horrid climate of St.

Most edges crumbled and rounded off as if exposed to storms and climate changes for millions of years.

Scandinavian geologists, working on the peat-bogs, have discovered evidence of many variations of climate in the north, but none datable to the early ninth century.

The rapidity of the deglaciation suggests that some extraordinary factor was affecting the climate.

The rapidity of the deglaciation suggests that some extraordinary factor was affecting climate .