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Definition: WEATHERWISE |
WEATHERWISEAdjective1. Skillful in forecasting the changes of the weather. |
Date "WEATHERWISE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Air | Atmospheric, airy; aerial, aeriform; meteorological; weatherwise. |
Foresight | Adjective: foreseeing; Verb: prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious; (intelligent); weatherwise; provident; (prepared); prospective. |
Prediction | Adjective: predicting;Verb: predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A V-2 Rocket Launch. This particular rocket was launched to study the upper atmosphere and carried instrumentation to study the velocity of sound and to measure the temperature at high altitudes. In: "Weatherwise", Volume I, no. 3 , June 1948. P. 52.Credit: NOAA in Space. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "WEATHERWISE" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WEATHERWISE" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
weatherwise | 14 |
michelin weatherwise | 7 |
weatherwise magazine | 6 |
michelin sport weatherwise | 3 |
michelin tire weatherwise | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WEATHERWISE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | ικανόσ να προλέγει τον καιρόν. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatherwiseway способный предсказывать перемены. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-i-r-s-t-w-w" | |
-3 letters: eateries, hearties, sweatier, wasterie, waterish, weariest, weathers, wetwares, wreathes. | |
-4 letters: aeriest, aethers, eeriest, hastier, heaters, heister, reheats, seriate, sheeter, swather, sweater, sweeter, sweetie, swither, thawers, thewier, trishaw, waister, waiters, wariest, washier, wastrie, wearies, wearish, weather, wethers, wetware, whereas, whereat, withers, wraiths, wreathe, wreaths, writhes. | |
-5 letters: aeries, aether, airest, airths, aretes, ashier, earths, easier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 41 54 48 45 52 57 49 53 45 |
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| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WEATHERWISE" |
