English Dictionary

weather

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɛð.ə/

動詞

広義

To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects. / (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.

日本語の意味

風雨にさらす、またはその影響を受けるようにする / 風雨に耐える、耐候性を示す

If you leave the wooden bench outside, the sun and rain will weather it over time.

木製のベンチを外に放置しておくと、日光や雨にさらされて時間とともに傷んでいきます。

意味（1）

To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.

The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.

意味（2）

(by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.

Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow.

意味（3）

To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.

意味（4）

(nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.

to weather a cape to weather another ship

意味（5）

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

Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.

意味（6）

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

If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.

weathers （ present singular third-person ）

weathering （ participle present ）

weathered （ participle past ）

weathered （ past ）