weather

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

   “What's the weather like today?”

2. isim Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.

   “Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.”

3. isim The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
4. isim A situation.
5. isim A storm; a tempest.

   “What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!”

6. isim A light shower of rain.
7. sıfat Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   “weather side, weather helm”

8. fiil To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.

   “The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.”

9. fiil To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.

   “"Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow."”

10. fiil To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
11. fiil To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.

    “Lichens' ability to weather makes them a geological force, yet they do more than disolve the physical features of the world.”

12. fiil To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.

    “to weather a cape    to weather another ship”

13. fiil To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

    “Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.”

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

    “If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.”

15. fiil To rain; to storm.

    “But there's no law against taking pictures when it's weathering out there, and you're likely to produce some beautiful, if not different, images for your efforts. All that's needed is to dress your camera for the weather[…]”