Veer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.

   “As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.”

2. isim A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

   “[…] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.”

3. fiil To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

   “The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.”

4. fiil To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).

   “1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.”

5. fiil To shift aft.
6. fiil To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
7. fiil To turn.
8. isim A piglet or a heifer.

   “But with us veers are little pigs; and in some parishes heifers are called veers too. So you see it is not such a noble name with us, that I was going to be startled at the idea of a veer eating up my grass.”

9. özel isim A surname.