Definition of Weather

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Weather

The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.

Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.

Storm; tempest.

A light rain; a shower.

To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.

Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.

To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.

To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.

Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.

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Weather Quotations

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark Twain

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Steven Wright

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
Groucho Marx

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle

Weather Translations

weather in Afrikaans is weer
weather in Danish is vejr
weather in Dutch is weer, weersomstandigheden, weder
weather in French is parieur
weather in German is weder, Wetter, Wetter, Witterung
weather in Latin is tempestas, aeris, aer
weather in Portuguese is tempo

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