Weather vs Report - 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.
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, title= (label) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
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*:thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene // Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god
(label) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
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(label) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
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(label) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
(label) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
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(label) To be accountable.
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To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
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To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
(label) To refer.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:Baldwin, his son,succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.
To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:a church with windows only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times
A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject.
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(ballistics ) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
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an employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager
As nouns the difference between weather and report
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 report is report (all senses).As a verb weather
is to expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.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 stormreport
English
(wikipedia report)Verb
(en verb)Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported
Derived terms
* reporter * underreportNoun
(en noun)- A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
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- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- ...a pistol-shot, flash and report , came from the hedge-side.