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Definition: Weathercock |
WeathercockNoun1. Weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "weathercock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Device that turns freely on an upright rod and points in the direction from which wind comes. . It is composed of. . an arrow. . . and a round plate on which the directions are marked. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Of an aircraft, a rocket, etc. To head into the wind, or to try to head into the wind. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers; wheel of Fortune; transientness. |
Indication | Beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard. |
Tergiversation | Time server, time pleaser; timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter;time server, time pleaser; timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter; weathercock; (changeable); Janus. |
Wind | Anemography, aerodynamics; wind gauge, vane, weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Weathercock |
| English words defined with "weathercock": Anemoscope ♦ Fane. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "weathercock": directional stability ♦ Girouette. (references) |
| "Weathercock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Weathercock" is used about 32 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "weathercock": bell-and-weathercock. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
weathercock | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "weathercock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fluger (vane, weather vane), erëtregues (drogue, vane, weather vane). (various references) | |
Arabic | متغير (changeable, changeful, changing, fickle, inconstant, mutable, unsteady, variable), أداة ظاهرة إتجه الريح, شخص متقلب كالرياح, ديك الرياح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ветропоказател (sock, vane, weather vane). (various references) | |
Czech | vìtrná korouhvièka. (various references) | |
Danish | dreje op i vinden. (various references) | |
Dutch | torenhaan, oploeven, in de wind draaien. (various references) | |
Finnish | viirikukko, tuuliviiri (weathervane), tuulihattu (fickle person), tuuliajo (fickle person), kääntyä tuuleen. (various references) | |
French | girouette (weather vane). (various references) | |
German | Wetterhahns, Wetterhahn (vane), Turmhahn, in den Wind drehen. (various references) | |
Greek | ανεμοδείκτησ (vane, weather cock, weather vane, wind cone), ανεμοδείκτης (vane), ορτσάρω, ίπταμαι προς τον αέρα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שבשבת (vane, weather vane). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szélkakas (vane, weather vane, weathervane), front idõjárás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | baling-baling (propeller, rotor, toy windmill, vane). (various references) | |
Italian | segnavento (telltale, weather vane, wind vane), mostravento (landing tee, landing-T, weather vane, wind tee, wind vane), girandola (catherine wheel), dirigersi ao vento, banderuola (banderole, weathervane). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ウェーバーの法則 (on-deck batter's circle, rag, taking a pitch, wafer, wafers, waist, waist bag, waist nipper, waist pouch, waistcoat, waistline, wait, waiter, waiting circle, waiting game, waiting room, waiting system, waitress, Wales, walk rally, walk through, walkathon, walkie-lookie, walkie-talkie, walking dictionary, walking shoes, Walkman, war cry, war game, ware, -ware, warehouse, warm, warming, warming-up, warm-up, warning lamp, waste ball, water chute, water closet, water hazard, water polo, watercolor, watercooler, waterfall, waterfront, watermelon, waterproof, watertight, wave, wave-front, way, weapon, wear, weather, weatherstrip molding, web, Weber, Weber's law, wedding, wedding bell, wedding cake, wedding dress, wedding march, wedding ring, wedding veil, wedeling, wedge heel, wedge sole, weight, weight lifting, weight training, welcome, well-done, west, West Coast, West End, West Point, West Side, West Virginia, western, Western grip, Western league, Western music, Westinghouse, wet, wet core, wet cut, wet suit, worm gear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウエザーコック . (various references) | |
Manx | kellagh geayee (weather vane), kellagh emshir. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eathercockway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vira-casaca (bolter, chameleon, floater, ratcatcher, ratter, renegade, turncoat), grimpa (vane, weather vane), cata-vento (cowl, fairing, vane, whirligig, windmill), bandeira (banner, bunting, dust-cloak, duster, ensign, flag, gonfalon, party, pennon, side, standard, weather vane), aproar ao vento. (various references) | |
Romanian | paiaţã (harlequin, zany), om schimbãtor, morişcã de vânt (vane), giruetã (vane), brezaie. (various references) | |
Russian | флюгер (vane, weather vane). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vetrokaz (vane, weather vane). (various references) | |
Spanish | veleta (vane, weather vane), aproar al viento. (various references) | |
Swedish | vindflöjel (vane, weather vane, weathervane). (various references) | |
Turkish | rüzgâr gülü (compass rose, rose, vane, weather vane, windmill), fırıldak (weather vane, whirligig, windmill), dönek kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | флюгер (vane, yo-yo), непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, impermanent, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble), метеоролог (meteorologist, metman, weatherman). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hay xoay chiều. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "weathercock": weathercocks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-k-o-r-t-w" | |
-3 letters: checkrow, cocreate, thwacker. | |
-4 letters: accrete, caroche, catcher, cheater, checker, coacher, coerect, crochet, crocket, hectare, hektare, hoecake, hotcake, ochreae, ocreate, reawoke, recheat, recheck, reteach, teacher, trochee, watcher, weather, whacker, whereat, whereto, wreathe. | |
-5 letters: aether, cachet, caroch, cerate, chawer, cheero, chewer, choker, chorea, coatee, coater, cocker, coerce, cohere, cratch, create, creche, crotch, ecarte, echoer, etcher. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-k-o-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: weathercocks. | |
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