transcription, транскрипция: [ weðə(r) ]
( weathers, weathering, weathered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The weather is the condition of the atmosphere in one area at a particular time, for example if it is raining, hot, or windy.
The weather was bad...
I like cold weather...
Fishing is possible in virtually any weather.
...the weather conditions.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If something such as wood or rock weathers or is weathered , it changes colour or shape as a result of the wind, sun, rain, or cold.
Unpainted wooden furniture weathers to a grey colour...
This rock has been weathered and eroded.
VERB : V , be V-ed , also V n
• weath‧ered
The facade of the building was a little weathered...
The man had a worn, weathered face.
= weather-beaten
ADJ
3.
If you weather a difficult time or a difficult situation, you survive it and are able to continue normally after it has passed or ended.
The government has weathered its worst political crisis.
to weather the storm: see storm
VERB : V n
4.
If you say that someone is making heavy weather of a task, you are critical of them because they are doing it in an inefficient way and are making it seem more difficult than it really is. ( BRIT )
Some of the riders in this section made heavy weather of the cross-country race.
PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n [ disapproval ]
5.
If you say that you are under the weather , you mean that you feel slightly ill.
I was still feeling a bit under the weather.
= unwell
PHRASE : v-link PHR