climate vs weather
Definitions
noun
- the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
- the prevailing psychological state
Examples
The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
These sometimes spectacular occurrences, called calving events, are a key step in the process by which climate change drives sea level rise.
The climate is changing, the sea levels are rising, the weather is getting stormier.
Definitions
verb
- face and withstand with courage
- sail to the windward of
- cause to slope
- change under the action or influence of the weather
adjective
- towards the side exposed to wind
noun
- the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
Examples
If the indoor tables don't satisfy you, and if the weather is right, do ask for a table on the terrace.
The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high.
A few billion of that new economic rescue plan will go to weatherize one million homes a year.
