See weather vane on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for weather vane meaning in All languages combined (7.7kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "weather vanes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "weather vane (plural weather vanes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Architectural elements",
"orig": "en:Architectural elements",
"parents": [
"Architecture",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
"Sciences",
"Culture",
"All topics",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Wind",
"orig": "en:Wind",
"parents": [
"Weather",
"Atmosphere",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "anemoscope"
},
{
"word": "windsock"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1913, Willa Cather, “Neighboring Fields, I”, in O Pioneers!",
"text": "From the graveyard gate one can count a dozen gayly painted farmhouses; the gilded weather-vanes on the big red barns wink at each other across the green and brown and yellow fields.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind."
],
"id": "en-weather_vane-en-noun-YzRBIrCB",
"links": [
[
"mechanical",
"mechanical"
],
[
"device",
"device"
],
[
"rotating",
"rotate"
],
[
"axis",
"axis"
],
[
"attached",
"attached"
],
[
"elevated",
"elevated"
],
[
"object",
"object"
],
[
"roof",
"roof"
],
[
"direction",
"direction"
],
[
"wind",
"wind"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vane"
},
{
"word": "weathercock"
},
{
"word": "weathervane"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dawwārat riyāḥ",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "دَوَّارَة رِيَاح"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vetropokazatel",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ветропоказател"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "penell"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gallet"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "風標"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēngbiāo",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "风标"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "korouhev"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vindfløj"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vejrhane"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "windwijzer"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "windvaan"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "ventoflago"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "tuuliviiri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "girouette"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "catavento"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "virantenla"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "penel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wetterfahne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Windfahne"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anemodeíktis",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ανεμοδείκτης"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "szélkakas"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "lippu"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "banderuola"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kazamidori",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "風見鶏"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vétrokaz",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ве́троказ"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vindfløy"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vindfløy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wiatrowskaz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cata-vento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventoinha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "catavento"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "giruetă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fljúger",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "флю́гер"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ветроказ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vetrokaz"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vetrokaz"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "veleta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vindflöjel"
}
]
}
],
"word": "weather vane"
}
{
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "anemoscope"
},
{
"word": "windsock"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "weather vanes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "weather vane (plural weather vanes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"en:Architectural elements",
"en:Wind"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1913, Willa Cather, “Neighboring Fields, I”, in O Pioneers!",
"text": "From the graveyard gate one can count a dozen gayly painted farmhouses; the gilded weather-vanes on the big red barns wink at each other across the green and brown and yellow fields.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind."
],
"links": [
[
"mechanical",
"mechanical"
],
[
"device",
"device"
],
[
"rotating",
"rotate"
],
[
"axis",
"axis"
],
[
"attached",
"attached"
],
[
"elevated",
"elevated"
],
[
"object",
"object"
],
[
"roof",
"roof"
],
[
"direction",
"direction"
],
[
"wind",
"wind"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "vane"
},
{
"word": "weathercock"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "weathervane"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dawwārat riyāḥ",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "دَوَّارَة رِيَاح"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vetropokazatel",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ветропоказател"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "penell"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gallet"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "風標"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēngbiāo",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "风标"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "korouhev"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vindfløj"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vejrhane"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "windwijzer"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "windvaan"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "ventoflago"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "tuuliviiri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "girouette"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "catavento"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "virantenla"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "penel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wetterfahne"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Windfahne"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anemodeíktis",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ανεμοδείκτης"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "szélkakas"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "lippu"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "banderuola"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kazamidori",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"word": "風見鶏"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vétrokaz",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ве́троказ"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vindfløy"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vindfløy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wiatrowskaz"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cata-vento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventoinha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "catavento"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "giruetă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fljúger",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "флю́гер"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ветроказ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "vetrokaz"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vetrokaz"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "veleta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a device showing the direction of the wind",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vindflöjel"
}
],
"word": "weather vane"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.