Meaning of weather | Babel Free

Definitions

1. time
2. The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
   countable, uncountable
3. To experience or cause to experience weather conditions that prevent movement: The squadron is weathered in because of dense fog. Such a storm will weather the fleet in.
4. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time
5. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
   countable, uncountable
6. To exaggerate the difficulty of something to be done.
7. tense
8. The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
   countable, uncountable
9. under the weather, a. ill.
10. weather (the short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)
11. A situation.
    countable, figuratively
12. The state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place. Weather is described by variable conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind velocity, precipitation, and barometric pressure.
13. A storm; a tempest.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
14. the study of atmospheric conditions. Also aerography. — aerographer, n.
15. A light shower of rain.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. a barometer which automatically records, on a rotating cylinder, any variation in atmospheric pressure; a self-recording aneroid.
17. the branch of science that deals with the barometer.
18. the art or science of barometric observation.
19. an abnormal fear or dislike of snow.
20. the science that studies climate or climatic conditions. — climatologist, n. — climatologic, climatological, adj.

Equivalents

Examples

“What's the weather like today?”

“We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.”

“The garden party was called off due to bad weather.”

“Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.”

“Human beings love to talk about the weather.”

“Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.”

“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.”

“What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!”

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