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Word definitions for weather in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a weather forecast ▪ The weather forecast for the weekend is fine and dry. a weather pattern ▪ Rising global temperatures are affecting weather patterns. brave the elements/weather etc (= go out in bad weather ) ▪ ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind , weather(a) ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English weder "air, sky; breeze, storm, tempest," from Proto-Germanic *wedram "wind, weather" (cognates: Old Saxon wedar , Old Norse veðr , Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch weder , Old High German wetar , German Wetter "storm, wind, weather"), from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weather \Weath"er\, n. [OE. weder, AS. weder; akin to OS. wedar, OFries. weder, D. weder, we[^e]r, G. wetter, OHG. wetar, Icel. ve[eth]r, Dan. veir, Sw. v["a]der wind, air, weather, and perhaps to OSlav. vedro fair weather; or perhaps to Lith. vetra storm, ...
Usage examples of weather.
It was warm in the sunlight, the weather accursedly benign, a scattering of soft clouds.
The difficultie and danger he told the Salvaves, of the Mines, great gunnes, and other Engins, exceedingly affrighted them, yet according to his request they went to James towne in as bitter weather as could be of frost and snow, and within three days returned with an answer.
Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather!
It was a young, vigorous depression and pulled the cold front eastwards after it, leaving England to enjoy a period of anticyclonic weather.
On either side were fallen columns and architraves whose carvings were too weathered for Garric to be quite sure of their subject.
The scenery, however, was beautiful, the weather so perfect, and he enjoyed his rambles among the hills and his excursions on the water so thoroughly that he was already growing slightly forgetful of his purpose and satisfied that he could enjoy himself a few weeks without the zest of artistically redeeming the face of Ida Mayhew.
The fisherfolk believed that the world was packed with spirits which controlled everything from the weather to the flowering of the least of the epiphytic plants of the banyan shoals.
Daon Ramon wore snow rime like snagged silk around weathered rims of bared rock.
On the hill someone had lashed together a crucifix of branches, barkless and polished by the weather.
We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye on the barometer, to be prepared for the least change.
Both trawlers had reported a big swell still running from the north, but the wind backing westerly and the barometric pressure 2 to 3 millibars lower than the weather map indicated in that area.
Long years at sea, standing watch on the bridges of ships, had taught me the value of that instrument, what those small changes of barometric pressure could mean translated into physical terms of weather.
In the two cases given, if the change of weather follows immediately the movement of the barometrical column, that change will last only a very short time.
Besides the barometrical column fell again almost immediately, and nothing could inspire any hope of the end of that bad weather within a short period.
Bay the weather worsened steadily, and at last it came to be a choice between battening down the hatches both forward and aft, or being incontinently swamped.