Zephyr

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A light wind from the west.
2. isim Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.

   “O thou Goddeſſe, / Thou diuine Nature; thou^([sic – meaning how]) thy ſelfe thou blazon'ſt / In theſe two Princely Boyes: they are as gentle / As Zephires blowing below the Violet, / Not wagging his ſweet head; [...]”

3. isim Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.

   “The world hummed and spun about him. There was a whirling of zephyr skirts, four impassioned faces sweeping towards the open door of the passage that ran through the vicarage. He felt his position went with them.”

4. isim A type of soft confectionery made by whipping fruit and berry purée (mostly apple purée) with sugar and egg whites with subsequent addition of a gelling agent like pectin, carrageenan, agar, or gelatine.

   “In 1953 the Russian Republic Ministry of the Food Products Industry increased confectionery output 10% above 1952, including wrapped and packaged confectionery 46%, chocolates 57%, toffee 65%, fruit preserves, pastilles and Zephyrs 20% and halva—by 36%.”

5. fiil To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.

   “There was a time When the soft zephyring spring came joyfully, Like a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—”

6. fiil To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.

   “1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361, He was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city.”

7. özel isim The god of the West Wind.
8. özel isim The west wind personified.
9. özel isim A surname.

   “Even as her Republican peers sought to isolate her in the wake of her impassioned comments against a proposed ban on what doctors call gender-affirming medical care for children, Ms. Zephyr said she would not remain idle.”