windsock
A large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative…A large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed, used especially at smaller airfields.
» The wind made the windsock point straight up.
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1 sensesA large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed, used especially at smaller airfields.
Windsack
- a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
Examples
3 sentencesThe wind made the windsock point straight up.
Windsocks are used to indicate the direction and strength of the wind.
If you want to know which direction the wind is blowing, just look at the windsock.
deWenn du wissen willst, woher der Wind weht, brauchst du nur nach der Windhose zu schauen. — raggione
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From wind + sock.From wind + sock.
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Forms
plural: windsocksSynonyms
9 synonyms- a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind:wind socksockair sockair-sleevewind sleevewind conedrogue
Word family
4 related wordsSee also
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