Phonetics:
Meanings:
noun
Definition: The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
Definition: Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
Example: Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
Definition: The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
Definition: A situation.
Definition: A storm; a tempest.
Definition: A light shower of rain.
verb
Definition: To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
Definition: (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
Definition: To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
Definition: To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat ’round.
Example: to weather a cape; to weather another ship
Definition: To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
Example: Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
Definition: To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
adjective
Definition: Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.