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weather

Wetter

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
weather
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] meist Singular: Wetter
[1] In Spain the weather is always good.
In Spanien ist das Wetter immer schön.
[1] "The weather is so very bad, down in Lincolnshire, that the liveliest imagination can scarcely apprehend its ever being fine again."
Englisch > Englisch
weather
1. subst. The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
2. subst. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
3. subst. (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
4. subst. (figuratively) A situation.
5. subst. (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
6. subst. (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
7. adj. (sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
weather side, weather helm
8. v. To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
9. v. (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
10. v. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
11. v. (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
to weather a cape; to weather another ship
12. v. (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
13. v. (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
Deutsch > Englisch
Wetter
1. n-n. weather
2. n-n. storm