Weather vs Droughtiness - 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.
* 1851 , , Moby-Dick , ch. 3:
(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.
As nouns the difference between weather and droughtiness
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 droughtiness is dryness of the weather; lack of rain.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.