Weather vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
weather | mitigate |
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.
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
As verbs the difference between weather and mitigate
is that weather is to expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects while mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.As a noun weather
is the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.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 stormmitigate
English
Verb
(mitigat)- Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.
- But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
- Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
- Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
- The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.
