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Definition: Wind Sock |
Wind SockNoun1. Truncated cloth cone used to indicate wind direction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Device used to indicate the direction of the wind on airfields; it consists of a frustrum of a fabric cone, the base of which contains a metal ring, which can swing round a vertical axis mast. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A cone-shaped cloth sleeve that catches the wind and points away from the direction from which wind is blowing. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Wind SockSynonyms: air sleeve (n), air sock (n), wind sleeve (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Velocity | Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer. |
Wind | Anemography, aerodynamics; wind gauge, vane, weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| 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 |
wind sock | 268 |
airport wind sock | 9 |
flag wind sock | 3 |
fish wind sock | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wind sock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | vindpose (wind cone, wind sleeve), luftpose (wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
Dutch | windzak (wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuulipussi (air sock, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
French | manche à vent (wind cone, wind sleeve), manche à air (wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
German | Windsack (sock). (various references) | |
Greek | μάνικα αÎÏα (wind cone, wind sleeve), ανεμοÏÏιο (wind cone, wind sleeve), αεÏοκώνος (wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szélzsák (air sleeve, air sock, air tee, sleeve, wind cone, wind-sock). (various references) | |
Italian | manica del vento (wind cone, wind sleeve), manica a vento (fan, ventilator, wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indway ocksay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mangueira para o vento (wind cone, wind sleeve), manga de vento (wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
Spanish | manga para el viento (wind cone, wind sleeve), manga de viento (whirlwind), cono de viento (wind cone, wind sleeve). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: windsock. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-k-n-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: cowskin. | |
-2 letters: disown, indows. | |
-3 letters: cions, coins, conks, dicks, dinks, disco, docks, downs, icons, ikons, indow, kinds, kinos, knows, nicks, nocks, oinks, scion, sicko, snick, sodic, sonic, swink, wicks, winds, winks, winos, wonks. | |
-4 letters: cion, cods, coin, coni, conk, cons, cows, dick, dink, dins, disc, disk, dock, docs, dons, down, dows, icon, ikon, inks. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-k-n-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: downticks, windsocks. | |
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