"windstrength" meaning in English

See windstrength in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: windstrengths [plural]
Etymology: wind + strength Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wind|strength}} wind + strength Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} windstrength (countable and uncountable, plural windstrengths)
  1. The strength of the wind; the amount of force with which the wind blows. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Weather, Wind
    Sense id: en-windstrength-en-noun-5ISmr9FX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for windstrength meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wind",
        "3": "strength"
      },
      "expansion": "wind + strength",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "wind + strength",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "windstrengths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "windstrength (countable and uncountable, plural windstrengths)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Weather",
          "orig": "en:Weather",
          "parents": [
            "Atmosphere",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wind",
          "orig": "en:Wind",
          "parents": [
            "Weather",
            "Atmosphere",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, E. T. White, Penelope Hetherington, Clean Air, the Continuing Challenge, page 753",
          "text": "In principle, the windiness map permits estimating the windstrength of a place, where the windiness value is W., by multiplying that by the measured wind at Observatory Hill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Maria Bianca Cita, Proceedings of the International Conference, Geology of the Oceans",
          "text": "Therefore, fluctuations in the windstrength may be a possible cause for changes in the Ti/Al record as proposed by Shimmield & Mowbray (1991).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John Caig, Tim Davison, Racing: A Beginner's Guide",
          "text": "Each class is different, but here are a few general pointers to tweaking for various windstrengths.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Captain Peter Dickens, Night Action: MTB Flotilla at War, page 192",
          "text": "In assessing the windstrength before an operation I could not stop myself hoping that it would be too strong; we should win the war of course, but the end was nowhere in sight and I did so wish it was like a term at school when one at least knew how long one had to stick it out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The strength of the wind; the amount of force with which the wind blows."
      ],
      "id": "en-windstrength-en-noun-5ISmr9FX",
      "links": [
        [
          "strength",
          "strength"
        ],
        [
          "wind",
          "wind"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "windstrength"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wind",
        "3": "strength"
      },
      "expansion": "wind + strength",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "wind + strength",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "windstrengths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "windstrength (countable and uncountable, plural windstrengths)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Weather",
        "en:Wind"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, E. T. White, Penelope Hetherington, Clean Air, the Continuing Challenge, page 753",
          "text": "In principle, the windiness map permits estimating the windstrength of a place, where the windiness value is W., by multiplying that by the measured wind at Observatory Hill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Maria Bianca Cita, Proceedings of the International Conference, Geology of the Oceans",
          "text": "Therefore, fluctuations in the windstrength may be a possible cause for changes in the Ti/Al record as proposed by Shimmield & Mowbray (1991).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John Caig, Tim Davison, Racing: A Beginner's Guide",
          "text": "Each class is different, but here are a few general pointers to tweaking for various windstrengths.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Captain Peter Dickens, Night Action: MTB Flotilla at War, page 192",
          "text": "In assessing the windstrength before an operation I could not stop myself hoping that it would be too strong; we should win the war of course, but the end was nowhere in sight and I did so wish it was like a term at school when one at least knew how long one had to stick it out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The strength of the wind; the amount of force with which the wind blows."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strength",
          "strength"
        ],
        [
          "wind",
          "wind"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "windstrength"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.