weatherとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛðə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛðɚ/
• 韻: -ɛðə(r)
• 異形同音異義語: wether, whether (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• ハイフネーション: wea‧ther

名詞

weather (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 weathers)

1. The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
2. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.

   Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.

3. (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, 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.

4. (countable, figuratively) A situation.
5. (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
   • Dryden

     What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!

6. (obsolete) A light shower of rain.

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同意語

• (state of the atmosphere): meteorology
• (windward side): weatherboard

下位語

• dirty weather
• space weather

派生語

形容詞

weather (not comparable)

1. (sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   weather side, weather helm

同意語

• (nautical) windward

反意語

• (nautical, geology) lee

動詞

weather (三人称単数 現在形 weathers, 現在分詞 weathering, 過去形および過去分詞形 weathered)

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
4. (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.

   to weather a cape; to weather another ship

5. (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

   Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.

6. (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

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派生語

アナグラム

• weareth, whate'er, wheater, whereat, wreathe