Weather vs Winterize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between weather and winterize

is that weather is to expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects while winterize is to prepare (something) for winter weather.

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

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

winterize

English

Alternative forms

*winterise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(winteriz)

To prepare (something) for winter weather.

To remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not go cloudy in the winter.

* 1990 , David R. Erickson (editor), (World Conference Proceedings) Edible Fats and Oils Processing: Basic Principles and Modern Practices , page 103:

Some oils which are frequently winterized to produce salad oil are: refined and lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil and some varieties of rapeseed oil.

The continuous miscella winterizing process takes from 45 min to 1 hr to produce +15 hr cold test oil.

Derived terms

* winterisation, winterization * winterised, winterized * winterising, winterizing * winteriser, winterizer