What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Weather vs Ambient - What's the difference?

weather | ambient |

As nouns the difference between weather and ambient

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 ambient is something that surrounds.

As a verb weather

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

As an adjective ambient is

encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

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

    ambient

    English

    (wikipedia ambient)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
    • A cup of tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • A glorious pile whose tow'ring summit ambient clouds concealed.
  • * Milton
    • This which yields or fills all space, the ambient air wide interfused.
  • (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
  • Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
    • ambient food
    ambient warehousing
  • (mathematics) Containing]] objects or [[describe, describing a setting that one is interested in.
  • * 1996 , Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521479981), page 282
    • These, then, are characterizations of the system of natural numbers within an ambient set theory. And they seem to work, in the sense that in a sufficiently strong set theory it can be shown that Peano's axioms have (up to isomorphism) a unique model (cf. Rem. 6.1.8).
  • * 2008 , Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9783540888666), page 369
    • As much of the work in determinacy must proceed without AC, ZF serves as the ambient theory for this section , and uses of AC will be explicitly noted, reversing the usual procedure.
  • * 2011 , Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9781441977656), page 163
    • A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that surrounds.
  • (uncountable, music) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.
  • * 1996 , SPIN magazine (volume 12, number 3, page 116)
    • Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.
  • (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
    • It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.

    Synonyms

    * (music) ambient music, chillout

    References

    *

    References

    * * ----