Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- (countable, figuratively) A situation.
- (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
- (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
Adjektiivi
Verbi
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
- (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
- To rain; to storm.
Esimerkit
- 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!
- The organisms [...] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
- [An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air / To weather his broad sails.
- For I can weather the roughest gale.
- You will weather the difficulties yet.
- to weather a cape; to weather another ship
- Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
- Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.
- The ancient ruins had been weathered by the elements.
- They weathered the storm, and then walked back to the base camp.
- Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens)
- The weather is good.
- the weather for today
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | weathered |
| Imperfekti | weathered |
| Partisiipin preesens | weathering |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | weathers |
| Monikko | weathers |