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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. Related Definitions: Action, Against, Air, Alter, Alternation, And, Another, Any, As, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Away, Bear, Being, Bow, By, Calm, Cape, Change, Clearness, Cloudiness, Cold, Condition, Dry, Dryness, Effect, Endure, Expose, Exposure, Gauge, Hawk, Heat, Hence, In, Lee, Light, Meteorological, Of, Open, Opposed, Or, Other, Overcome, Pass, Phenomena, Place, Quarter, Rain, Resist, Respect, Sail, Season, Ship, Shower, Sometimes, State, Storm, Suffer, Sustain, Tempest, The, To, Toward, Trying, Under, Undergo, Up, Vicissitude, Warm, Waste, Wear, Weather, Wet, Wind, Windward, With |
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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 |
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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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