Crossword clues for zephyr
zephyr
- "...and soft the ___ blows": Thomas Gray
- Gentle breeze
- Gentle blow
- Feature of a pleasant summer day
- A slight wind (usually refreshing)
- (Greek mythology) the Greek god of the west wind
- Wind power extremely handy, almost nothing eclipses it
- Soft breeze
- Ford UK model made from 1950 to 1972
- Light breeze
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zephyr \Zeph"yr\, n. [L. zephyrus, Gr. ?, akin to ? darkness,
the dark side, west: cf. F. z['e]phyr.]
The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze. ``Soft
the zephyr blows.''
--Gray.
As gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
--Shak.
Zephyr cloth, a thin kind of cassimere made in Belgium; also, a waterproof fabric of wool.
Zephyr shawl, a kind of thin, light, embroidered shawl made of worsted and cotton.
Zephyr yarn, or Zephyr worsted, a fine, soft kind of yarn or worsted, -- used for knitting and embroidery.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old English Zefferus, from Latin Zephyrus (source also of French zéphire, Spanish zefiro, Italian zeffiro), from Greek Zephyros "the west wind" (sometimes personified as a god), probably related to zophos "the west, the dark region, darkness, gloom." Extended sense of "mild breeze" is c.1600. Related: Zephyrean.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 a light wind from the west 2 any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze 3 anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric n. 1 a light wind from the west 2 any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze 3 anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric vb. (cx intransitive poetic English) To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.
WordNet
n. a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck" [syn: breeze, gentle wind, air]
(Greek mythology) the Greek god of the west wind
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Created at MIT, as part of Project Athena, Zephyr was designed as an instant messaging protocol and application-suite with a heavy Unix background. Using the "do one thing, do it well" philosophy of Unix, it was made up of several separate programs working together to make a complete messaging system. Zephyr and IRC are the first widely used IP-based instant-messaging systems.
Zephyr may refer to a light wind or west wind. It may also refer to:
Zephyr was a blues-based hard rock band formed in 1969 in Boulder, Colorado by guitarist Tommy Bolin, keyboardist John Faris, David Givens on bass guitar, Robbie Chamberlin on drums and Candy Givens on vocals. Although the charismatic performances by Candy Givens were originally the focal point for the band, it was the flashy guitar work of Tommy Bolin that the band is best remembered for. After Bolin left, he was replaced by Jock Bartley, and the band recorded the album Sunset Ride, their second for Warner Brothers Records. The album is still in print and is much loved by a small but loyal following. On Sunset Ride, Candy Givens displayed her gifts as a singer, composer, and harmonica player. The album was produced by David Givens who also authored the majority of the tunes. As a result of his stint with Zephyr, Bartley went on to a successful career with Gram Parsons and Firefall and drummer, Michael Wooten, went on to play for several years with Carole King. Various versions of Zephyr continued to play in Colorado until Candy's death in 1984. The release of "Heartbeat" in 1982 was promoted by a video that incorporated very early examples of analog computer animation combined with live action.
Other Zephyr members of note include trance blues maven, Otis Taylor, who played bass during the mid-1970s, Kenny Wilkins (Drums) and also later on as (guitarist), guitarist Zack Smith (founder of Columbia Records band Scandal), and blues guitarist, Eddie Turner, who played guitar in the last incarnation during the early 1980s. Candie and David, Tommy, and John Faris were all founding members of The Legendary 4Nikators, Boulder's oldest and best loved party band. Taylor and Turner were later additions to The Legendary 4Nikators - Taylor noted for playing motorcycle on stage during "Leader Of The Pack" and performing in a kilt and Turner for his renditions of Jimi Hendrix classics.
40 years after, Zephyr's music is still in print and continues to be played in the various media. YouTube has brought new eyes and ears to the band.
In 2014, record producer, Greg Hampton and David Givens collaborated on a project that resulted in the release of a limited edition boxed set that included a remastered version of the "bathtub" album, two albums of live material - mostly previously unreleased, and a booklet featuring liner notes by Givens and photos from his private collection. The remastered first album is an unqualified improvement over the original and the live material justifies the high esteem the band accrued with the audiences that witnessed their performances. The boxes sold out in less than a month.
ZEPHYR, born Andrew Witten, is a graffiti artist, lecturer and author from New York City. He began creating graffiti in 1975 and first signed using the name "Zephyr" in 1977. He has been identified as a graffiti "elder", who along with Futura 2000, Blade, PHASE 2, CASH, Lady Pink and TAKI 183 invented styles and standards which are still in use.
A zephyr is a garment worn in competitive rowing.
A zephyr is usually a short-sleeved T-shirt with a front opening, with the opening and sleeve ends trimmed in the colours of the club.
Zephyr, as a garment, appears in the 1927 novel Blind Corner by Dornford Yates. "... I followed immediately, clad only in a zephyr and shorts, and was in the boat almost a soon as he."
Category:Sports clothing Category:Tops (clothing)
The Zephyr is a New Zealand one-design 3.6 metre sailing dinghy. It is a national class, administered by the Zephyr Owners' Association. Hull form and sail plans are restricted, to ensure all boats have the same potential speed.
Zephyr is a musical project started in 2000 by London-based composer and producer Elizabeth Henshaw, involving musicians from a variety of different backgrounds. In 2001, their self-titled debut album was released. In 2007, their second album, Flame, was released in Southeast Asia, distributed by Universal.
Henshaw trained classically as a pianist and began writing at the age of seven. She developed a keen interest in the music of other cultures which has influenced her writing considerably. Elizabeth's music is recognised both for its melodic strength and its rhythmic and metric sophistication. Elizabeth has worked with EMI Classics UK, having her song "Prayer" featured as the first track on Becky Jane Taylor's album By Your Side.
Two Zephyr albums have been released by ORiGiN Music and a third is currently in the making. Both albums became favourites on ABC Classic FM (Australia) and have been used widely in Australian TV series' as well as continuing to feature on a number of international compilations.
All Zephyr tracks are available on iTunes internationally.
Zephyr is the debut album by the band Zephyr, released in 1969.
Zephyr is a public sculpture created by artist Steve Wooldridge in 1998. It is located southeast of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library and north of New York Street on IUPUI's campus. The overall dimensions of this stainless steel sculpture are tall, long, and wide.
Zephyr is the sixth studio album by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx, released in December 2009.
Zephyr is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Belma Baş, which tells the story of a young girl Zefir’s longing for her mother while staying with her grandparents for summer holidays in the beautiful mountains of the Black Sea region. The film was selected for the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival and the 35th Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered. It is a thematic sequel to the director's previous short Boreas .
Zephyr is a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures and released under the Apache License 2.0 (a BSD licensed fork can be found in the Arduino 101 software source package from Intel). Originally developed as Rocket kernel by Wind River Systems for Internet of Things devices, Zephyr became a project of the Linux Foundation in February 2016.
Usage examples of "zephyr".
Twin seed-cases that Zephyr assumed to be engine housings hung below her, bizarrely botanical, surrounded in plastic sheeting behind which Arachno engineers worked with cautious movements.
The epicentre, where the Lady Macbeth had plunged into the drive-fomented particles, was still glowing a nervous blue as brumal waves of static washed through the thinning molecular zephyr of vaporized rock and ice.
Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain.
Zephyr had been executed by the light of a gibbous moon, as was Halruaan custom.
His pace was swifter than that of the zephyr when it sweeps along over the unbending corn.
Of course, it would be clear to anyone with wits Zephyr needed no reins to control her, but Amy was willing to play the feebleminded wigeon if it suited her purpose.
To her mind Zephyr spent far too much time going over old texts and bits of pottery, hiking up to caves that only contained paintings instead of allosaur bones.
I have been privileged to become aware of the singing of a quiet tune, some of the phrases of which were directly derivative from inarticulate vegetation--the thud of glossy blue quandongs on the soft floor of the jungle, the clicking of a discarded leaf as it fell from topmost twigs down through the strata of foliage, the bursting of a seed-pod, the patter of rejects from the million pink-fruited fig, overhanging the beach, the whisper of leaves, the faint squeal where interlocked branches fret each other unceasingly, the sigh of phantom zephyrs too elusive to be felt.
The wind was little more than a gentle breeze, but these shallow craft had been designed for the trickish zephyrs of the Mediterranean climate, and the cargo ship fell away with surprising speed behind them, until it was just running lights against the black horizon.
The sound differed from the hiss of escaping air that she sometimes heard in the narrower passages where, in response to the dictates of Bernoulli, the constant zephyr freshened into something stronger.
She kicked off her sandals and pinned her hair haphazardly on her head, grateful for the cool zephyr from the south that fanned the back of her neck.
A head, long-nosed and sharp, was tucked against its forebody, and on it Zephyr saw the surface of an eye blinklessly open, its clear shields reflecting the light of the high sun.
To be played on by any wind that blows, gale, zephyr, postcenal eructation.
It was only then that Zephyr realized - with her sketchy knowledge of the roots of the Greek-based Citizen Classnames - that of course Strategos was a blend-word, the old name for a general, now carrying the new weight of later derivations: strategic adviser, battle tactician, master planner.
Zephyr was thinking about the not-unhandsome Strategos Anthony now, wondering who he was meeting, where and what they were doing.