summer vs winter
Definitions
noun
- the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
- the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
verb
- spend the summer
Examples
When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.
Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.
For a few weeks in the summer, visitors are able to go round Buckingham Palace.
Definitions
verb
- spend the winter
noun
- the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
Examples
He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
Typically, it comes in the wintertime, packing a lot of snow.
Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
