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weather | dry |

As a noun weather

is the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

As a verb weather

is to expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.

As an acronym dry is

(computing).

weather

English

(wikipedia weather)

Noun

  • The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
  • Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
    • Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather .
  • (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
  • * 1851 , , Moby-Dick , ch. 3:
    • 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.
  • (countable, figuratively) A situation.
  • (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
  • * Dryden
    • What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!
  • (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
    • (Wyclif)

    Synonyms

    * (state of the atmosphere) meteorology * (windward side) weatherboard

    Derived terms

    * all-weather * CAVOK * dirty weather * fair-weather * fair-weather friend * how's the weather * macroweather * NWR * NWS * space weather * under the weather * weather balloon * weather-beaten * weather-bit * weatherboard * weather-bound * weathercast * weathercock * weather deck * weather eye * weather forecast * weather front * weather gauge * weatherise / weatherize * weather loach * weatherly * weatherman * weather map * weather pains * weatherperson * weatherproof * weather report * weather shore * weather speak * weatherstrip * weather summary * weather vane * weather-wise / weatherwise * wet-weather

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
  • * H. Miller
    • The organisms seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
  • * Spenser
    • [An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air / To weather his broad sails.
  • (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
  • * Longfellow
    • For I can weather the roughest gale.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • You will weather the difficulties yet.
  • (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
    • to weather''' a cape; to '''weather another ship
  • (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
    • Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
  • (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

    • Derived terms

    * weather the storm

    Anagrams

    * English terms with homophones 1000 English basic words

    dry

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Free from liquid or moisture.
  • * Addison
    • The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
  • * Prescott
    • Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
  • (chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.
  • Thirsty; needing drink.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Give the dry fool drink.
  • (of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.
  • Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
  • (of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.
  • (of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.
  • (masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.
  • *
  • (of animals) Not giving milk.
  • Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.
  • (fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.
    • Synonyms
    * (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parched
    Antonyms
    * (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wet
    Derived terms
    * bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dry

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

  • To lose moisture.
    • The clothes dried on the line.
  • To remove moisture from.
    • Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
  • (ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.
    • Their sources of income dried up.
    The stream of chatter dried up.
    Derived terms
    * drier * dryer * dry out * dry up * nondrying
    See also
    * desiccant * desiccate * desiccation