{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈwɛðər" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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”).\n\n\nCognates\n\nCognate with Saterland Frisian Weeder, West Frisian waar, Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).\nOther cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.\n1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118:Human beings love to talk about the weather.\nWhat's the weather like today?\nWe'll go for a walk when the weather's better.\nThe garden party was called off due to bad weather.\nHere and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too." }, { "mean": "Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.\nWooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather." }, { "mean": "(nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.\n1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: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." }, { "mean": "(countable, figuratively) A situation." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A storm; a tempest.\n1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:\nWhat gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A light shower of rain.\n(Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.\nweather side, weather helm\n1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 35, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 174:Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships’ standing orders, “Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.”" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.\n1856, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey\nThe organisms seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42: soaring through his wide empire of the air / To weather his broad sails." }, { "mean": "(by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.\n1840 January 10​, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “ The Wreck of the Hesperus.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 44:\"Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow.\"\nApril 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute\nYou will weather the difficulties yet." }, { "mean": "To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air." }, { "mean": "(nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.\nto weather a cape    to weather another ship" }, { "mean": "(nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.\nJoshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa." }, { "mean": "(falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.\n1773, James Campbell, A Treatise on modern faulconry: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." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "weather at OneLook Dictionary Search\nweather in Britannica Dictionary\nweather in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary\nweather in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary\nweather in Ozdic collocation dictionary\nweather in WordReference English Collocations" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }