Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worn, stained, or warped by or as if by exposure to weather; seasoned.
- adjective Architecture Sloped to shed water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Discolored or disintegrated by the action of the elements: said sometimes of surfaces of wood, but oftener of Stones or rocks.
- Seasoned by exposure to the air or the weather.
- In architecture, having a slope or inclination to prevent the lodgment of water: noting surfaces approximately or theoretically horizontal, as those of window-sills, the tops of cornices, and the upper surface of flat stone-work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water.
- adjective (Geol.) Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
worn byweather ; as of rocks, stone, etc. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
weather .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worn by exposure to the weather
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Examples
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Weathered steel in weathered hands … and a fine walnut stock with a weathered brand.
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Killanin weathered the uncertainties that surrounded the organization of the Montreal Games in 1976.
Winter Olympics 1988 1988
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Why do you think states that seriously diversified their economy and invested in higher education in the long term weathered and recovered from this recession faster than Nevada?
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"Previous spills have all happened over a relatively short period of time and then the clean-up effort has mostly been on what's called weathered oil" -- oil that's been floating on the surface of water for some period of time.
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"Previous spills have all happened over a relatively short period of time and then the clean-up effort has mostly been on what's called weathered oil" -- oil that's been floating on the surface of water for some period of time.
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The story contrasted Reagan's youthful-looking, thick black hair and his "weathered," 64-year-old face to describe the "extraordinary contradiction" of the man who "flies around the country looking eager for the presidency [but] describes himself as reluctant."
Time bureau chief Robert Ajemian penetrated politicians''psychological armor' Adam Bernstein 2010
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It could die by poisoning: If oil hasn't been "weathered" by the sun and bacteria, the grass could take toxins in through its roots.
How oil-damaged marsh grasses recover could affect gulf's rebound 2010
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But a stiff east or southeast wind across the northeast Gulf might push "weathered" (non-flammable) oil onshore toward the northwest -- towards the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coast.
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BP officials stress that, by the time oil gets to shore, it is "weathered" and missing the highly volatile compounds like the carcinogenic benzene, among others.
Riki Ott: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants (PHOTOS) 2010
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Ed Overton of Louisiana State University said that tar balls form when oil is heavily "weathered," or decomposed, and that these might have formed in the Deepwater Horizon fire.
Engineers trying multiple tactics in battle to plug oil well in Gulf of Mexico 2010
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