Weather vs Form - What's the difference?
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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.
(nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
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(countable, figuratively) A situation.
(obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
* Dryden
(obsolete) A light shower of rain.
To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
* H. Miller
* Spenser
(by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
* Longfellow
* F. W. Robertson
(nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
(nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
(falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
To do with shape.
# The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
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# Characteristics not involving atomic components. (rfex)
# (label) A long bench with no back.
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# (label) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
# (label) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
(label) To do with structure or procedure.
# An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
# Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
# Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
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# (label) A class or rank in society.
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# (label) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
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# (label) Level.
## A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in (sixth form)).
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## (label) Grade (level of pre-collegiate education).
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
(label) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
The den or home of a hare.
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A window or dialogue box.
* 1998 , Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.426)
* Neil Smyth, C# Essentials
(label) An infraspecific rank.
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
(label) A quantic.
(lb) To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
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, title= (lb) To take shape.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
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(lb) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
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*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
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*1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in (w, Boys' Life) , Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608,
*:Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:'Tis education forms the common mind.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
*(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
*:The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
As nouns the difference between weather and form
is that weather is the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc while form is to do with shape.As verbs the difference between weather and form
is that weather is to expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects while form is to give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).weather
English
(wikipedia weather)Noun
- Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather .
- 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.
- What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!
- (Wyclif)
Synonyms
* (state of the atmosphere) meteorology * (windward side) weatherboardDerived 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-weatherVerb
(en verb)- The organisms seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
- [An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air / To weather his broad sails.
- For I can weather the roughest gale.
- You will weather the difficulties yet.
- to weather''' a cape; to '''weather another ship
- Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
Derived terms
* weather the stormform
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Alternative forms
* forme (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
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- I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside.
- The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms , as benches used to be called.
- Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
- Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice.
- ladies of a high form
- It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
- One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in?"
- From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
- Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme .
- The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form , as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
- Hares left their snug ‘forms ’ in the cold grass.
- While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form .
- Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
Synonyms
* (shape) ** figure, used when discussing people, not animals ** shape, used on animals and on persons * (blank document) formular * (pre-collegiate level) grade * (biology)Derived terms
* form class * form factor * form feed * form genera * form genus * form letter * form taxon * in form * longform * mid-season form * return to form * shortform * subform * typeformVerb
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