Crossword clues for windbreaker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
WordNet
n. a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) [syn: parka, windcheater, anorak]
Wikipedia
A windbreaker is a thin coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain, a lighter version of a jacket. It is usually of light construction, and these days characteristically made of some type of synthetic material. They often incorporate elastic waistbands or armbands and zipper to allow it to be accommodated to the current weather conditions. Regular jackets, coats, and etc. may include a type of windbreaker as an interlining that can be removed when desired. Windbreakers sometimes include a hood, that may be removable. Many windbreakers may also include large pockets on the inside or the outside which allows belongings to be covered from weather such as light wind or rain as mentioned above. Windbreakers are primarily worn in warmer seasons, when wind or rain are expected, or as part of a layering strategy during colder seasons. Brightly colored windbreakers may also be worn by runners as protection from the elements, and as a reflective garment used for safety.
Windbreakers offer light to moderate insulating protection, more so than a sweater, but less than an overcoat.
The term “windbreaker”, used primarily in North America and Japan, is probably in the process of becoming a genericized trademark, but it is still registered with the U.S. Trademark Office. It was first used by the John Rissman company of Chicago for its gabardine jackets. The term "windcheater” is used in the United Kingdom and certain Commonwealth countries including India. It also refers to any glossy synthetic material used to make clothing. Windcheater tops are also commonly known as cagoules or "wind jammers" in the United Kingdom. However, the term "windcheater" precedes the term "windbreaker" and was originally used to describe a sort of garment that was more akin to a pull-over anorak than a modern windbreaker. Unlike windbreakers, which are waist-length, windcheaters tend to extend up to the thighs and lack quilting or net linings.
The term " windpants" (also known as "splash pants" or "overtrousers") describes pants made out of synthetic material with an elastic around the waist. They are usually light and serve to shield the wearer from wind, and sometimes also mud and water. Windpants are almost always made out of polyester or nylon. They are also sometimes worn as an outside layer on top of other clothing, and often have zippers on each ankle so that they can be pulled over footwear. Some windpants have zippers that run the full length of the leg so the pants can be simply unzipped entirely. A 2012 study demonstrated that adding windbreaker pants and jackets offers a lightweight, but effective means of delaying hypothermia if the user is outside walking and encounters unexpected low temperatures.
The term 'windcheater' is also used to describe a retail item used on the beach and camping to prevent wind from disturbing social enjoyment. Normally made from cotton, nylon, canvas and recycled sails, windbreaks tend to have three or more panels, held in place with poles that slide into pockets sewn into the panel. The poles are then hammered into the ground and a windbreak is formed.
Windbreaker may refer to:
- Windbreaker, a thin jacket
- Windbreaker, (or Windbreak or Breeze Blocker) a sheet of material (usually Hessian) supported by poles (usually wooden) to protect from the wind - see Windbreak
- Windbreaker (Transformers), a Transformers action figure
- Trophy (countermeasure), aka "Windbreaker", an active protection system (APS) designed to defend both light and heavy armored fighting vehicles from anti-tank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.
- One who breaks wind.
Windbreaker is a fictional Autobot character in the Transformers series. He was also released under the name Zap.
Usage examples of "windbreaker".
In a matter of yards, he was surrounded by FBI agents in blue windbreakers.
He was wearing his usual working gear of jeans, turtleneck and windbreaker, having no need on board ship for dressier outfits.
A man in an FBI windbreaker was kneeling in the dark at the edge of the kill zone and Fagin thought at first that it was Banish, but upon closer examination saw that it was someone else, an agent in headphones mounting a microphone gun with a parabolic dish.
I know that Fracto and the windbreaker can save Xanth, but not whether they will.
Under her windbreaker, he saw, she was wearing a gaudy blue angora sweater, still sparkling frothily with snow.
In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.
So on the evening before the 26th of January, there was my table covered with brand-new warm Olympic underwear, ski pants, a couple of pullovers, a windbreaker and, last but not least, a pair of skis with bindings, and next to them the boots.
He had on a University of Tennessee ballcap and a UT Volunteers windbreaker.
The death mask still covered his face, but he looked almost ordinary in his white hightops, tan khakis, and Windbreaker.
I felt pellets hit and heard them thwap through the plastic of my windbreaker, but the Kevlar softened the blow of the four or five that hit me.
The man with the leather windbreaker came out of the men's room, glanced curiously at Pittman and Burt, then went up the stairs.
It would take more than cracks in the sidewalk to disrupt the primo ballerino grace with which he walked, as it would take more than the chill of a New York January evening to require him to add the threadbare windbreaker thrown over one shoulder to the black Cinderella T-shirt.
Marathe always disguised the boggling size of his arms under a long-sleeved windbreaker.
A man and a woman stood in the middle of the room, wearing blue slacks and shirts, FBI nylon windbreakers with creds attached.
He was wearing a leather windbreaker and a heavy roll-collar blue sweater under it, a pair of beatup Bedford cord breeches, and the kind of high laced boots that field engineers and surveyors wear in rough country.