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
Weather Quotations
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Steven Wright
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck
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
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
