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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, 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.
Verbit
- 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.
- (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.
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.
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