a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
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winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics
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a dry cold north wind in southeastern France
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a violent gusty wind
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a wind that blows from the north
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a heavy rain
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a heavy rain
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a wind from the east
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a wind from the east
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a wave of unusually hot weather
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Natural hazards, Atmosphere and climate.a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter
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A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lyin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green po…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: winds, blowing, west, east, lying.A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," t…
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