"windbreak" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: windbreaks [plural]
Etymology: wind + break Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wind|break}} wind + break Head templates: {{en-noun}} windbreak (plural windbreaks)
  1. (agriculture) A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops. Categories (topical): Agriculture Translations (hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage): преграда срещу вятъра (pregrada sreštu vjatǎra) (Bulgarian), tallavent [masculine] (Catalan), trencavent [masculine] (Catalan), paravent [masculine] (Catalan), tuulensuojaistutus (Finnish), brise-vent [masculine] (French), Windschutzstreifen [masculine] (German), mezővédő erdősáv (Hungarian), лесополоса́ (lesopolosá) (english: trees or shrubs) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-windbreak-en-noun-oRCcr1hH Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'hedge, fence or row of trees to reduce wind damage': 87 5 8
  2. A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind. Translations (sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind): заслон (zaslon) [masculine] (Bulgarian), paravent [masculine] (Catalan), tallavent [masculine] (Catalan), trencavent [masculine] (Catalan), windscherm [neuter] (Dutch), tuulensuoja (Finnish), Windschutz [masculine] (German), fál fothana [masculine] [agriculture, business, lifestyle] (Irish), scáthlán gaoithe [masculine] (Irish), tāhokahoka (Maori), tītopa (Maori), pāhauhau (Maori), āhau (Maori), vindskydd [neuter] (Swedish), atalfa wynt [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-windbreak-en-noun-7D8t9tjk Disambiguation of 'sheet, stack of material, or screen used to protect people or fire from wind': 4 90 7
  3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence. Categories (topical): Wind
    Sense id: en-windbreak-en-noun-XwngTK8- Disambiguation of Wind: 22 22 57 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 7 75 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 22 10 68 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 31 12 57
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wind-break, wind break

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  "word": "windbreak"
}

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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.