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{
"term": "weather",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time, such as the temperature, and if there is wind, rain, sun, etc.",
"sensetop": "in … weather",
"labels": "(North American English)(British English)(British English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**cold/hot/warm/wet/dry weather**"
},
{
"text": "**severe/extreme weather**"
},
{
"text": "**good/bad weather**"
},
{
"text": "Flights have been delayed because of the **inclement weather**."
},
{
"text": "**Weather conditions** are set to improve by Thursday."
},
{
"text": "concerns about changing **weather patterns**"
},
{
"text": "We'll have the party outside, **weather permitting** *(= if it doesn't rain)*."
},
{
"text": "I'm not going out in this weather!",
"contextForm": "in … weather"
},
{
"text": "Did you **have good weather** on your trip?"
},
{
"text": "The winter weather kept us from going out for a walk."
},
{
"text": "His flight was cancelled due to bad weather."
},
{
"text": "What sort of **weather** did you **have**?"
},
{
"text": "poor/fine weather"
},
{
"text": "What's the weather like?"
},
{
"text": "I've been enjoying this beautiful weather."
},
{
"text": "There's going to be a change in the weather."
},
{
"text": "if the weather holds/breaks *(= if the good weather continues/changes)*"
},
{
"text": "The weather is very changeable at the moment."
},
{
"text": "‘Are you going to the beach tomorrow?’ ‘It depends on the weather.’"
},
{
"text": "a weather report"
},
{
"text": "a weather map/chart"
},
{
"text": "The tent protected us from the worst of the weather."
},
{
"text": "Atlantic weather systems"
},
{
"text": "Bad weather threatened."
},
{
"text": "Deciding to brave the weather, he grabbed his umbrella and went out."
},
{
"text": "He swims in the sea every day, whatever the weather."
},
{
"text": "I sat outside as often as the weather allowed."
},
{
"text": "I wanted to mend the roof before the cold weather set in."
},
{
"text": "If the weather holds out we could go swimming later."
},
{
"text": "It was sunny until the weekend, but then the weather broke."
},
{
"text": "Next day the weather turned cold."
},
{
"text": "She packed all kinds of clothes to cope with the vagaries of the English weather."
},
{
"text": "She packed to cope with the vagaries of New York's weather."
},
{
"text": "Stormy weather prevented any play in today's tennis."
},
{
"text": "The fine weather brings out butterflies."
},
{
"text": "The plane crashed into the sea in adverse weather conditions."
},
{
"text": "The weather closed in and the climbers had to take shelter."
},
{
"text": "The weather looks beautiful today."
},
{
"text": "We hadn't bargained for such a dramatic change in the weather."
},
{
"text": "We'll go just as soon as this weather lets up."
},
{
"text": "We're having a barbecue next Saturday, weather permitting."
},
{
"text": "We've had great weather all week."
},
{
"text": "a spell of unseasonably warm weather."
},
{
"text": "an increase in extreme weather events"
},
{
"text": "the effects of global warming on the world's weather patterns"
},
{
"text": "I don't know whether we'll go—it depends on the weather."
},
{
"text": "The weather was awful."
},
{
"text": "We'll have lunch outside, weather permitting."
}
],
"topics": ["Weather"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["beautiful", "excellent", "fair"],
"… of weather": ["spell"],
"verb + weather": ["enjoy", "have", "brave"],
"weather + verb": ["clear", "clear up", "improve"],
"weather + noun": ["conditions", "patterns", "system"],
"phrases": [
"a change in the weather",
"in all weather",
"in all weather conditions"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a report of what the weather will be like, on the radio or television, in the newspapers or online",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to listen to/watch the weather"
},
{
"text": "And now for the weather."
},
{
"text": "I checked the weather this morning."
}
],
"topics": ["TV, radio and news"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if you say that it is brass monkeys or brass monkey weather, you mean that it is very cold weather",
"labels": "(British English, slang)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "in all kinds of weather, good and bad",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She goes out jogging in all weathers."
},
{
"text": "The lifeboat crews go out in all weather(s)."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to watch somebody/something carefully in case you need to take action",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Keep a weather eye on your competitors."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to seem to find something more difficult or complicated than it needs to be",
"examples": [
{
"text": "People in this country make such heavy weather of learning languages."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if you are or feel under the weather, you feel slightly ill and not as well as usual",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Health problems"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈweðə(r)/",
"audio": "we/weather/weather__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈweðər/",
"audio": "we/weather/weather__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English weder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weer and German Wetter, probably also to the noun wind1."
}