weather

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛðə/    美 /ˈwɛðɚ/|/ˈweðə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc. countable,uncountable
    — What's the weather like today?
  2. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects. countable,uncountable
    — Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
  3. The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side. countable,uncountable
    — One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
  4. A situation. countable,figuratively
  5. A storm; a tempest. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!
  6. A light shower of rain. countable,obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. 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.
  2. To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist. broadly
    — "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow."
  3. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
  4. 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.
  5. To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
    — to weather a cape    to weather another ship
  6. To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
    — Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
  7. 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.
  8. 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[…]
形容词 adj.
  1. Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air. not-comparable
    — weather side, weather helm

词形变化

weathers plural weathers present,singular,third-person weathering participle,present weathered participle,past weathered past

词汇关系

近义词
state of the atmosphere
反义词
lee
下位词
dirty weather space weather
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
词源 2
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
词源 3
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
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