Weather vs Louvre - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between weather and louvre

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 louvre is an alternative spelling of louver in us english; the only spelling of this word in uk english.

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

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

louvre

English

(wikipedia Louvre)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

A famous art museum in Paris, France.

* 2011 , Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster , p. 68:

God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre .

* 2010 , Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents , p. 130:

I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre , you won't jerk a thing.

* 2006 , Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand , p. 85:

I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre .

* 1985 , Phil Elderkin, "Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter", Baseball Digest , Vol. 44, No. 2, February 1985, p. 49:

IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre , somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.

* 1960 , Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education , p. 172:

For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre .

* 1889 , , Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1 , p. 319:

They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre'. Go to the '''Louvre''', Sire; go to the ' Louvre .

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