noun
Meaning 1
A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
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Standard Lemma guide
weathercock
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Sound
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noun
Meaning 2
One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 3
A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
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Usage: Canada, US
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verb
Meaning 4
To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To act as a weathercock for.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: weathervane, weather vane, vane, wind vane
History
Etymology
From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: candonga — weather vane
- Asturian: veleta — weather vane
- Bulgarian: ветропоказател (vetropokazatel) — weather vane
- Chinese Mandarin: 風標 /风标 (fēngbiāo) — weather vane
- Danish: vejrhane — weather vane
- Dutch: windhaan — weather vane
- Dutch: weerhaan — weather vane
- Esperanto: ventoflago — weather vane
- Estonian: tuulelipp — weather vane
- Finnish: tuuliviiri — weather vane
- Finnish: tuulikukko (cockerel-formed) — weather vane
- French: girouette — weather vane
- German: Wetterfahne — weather vane
- Greek: ανεμοδείκτης (anemodeíktis) — weather vane
- Hungarian: szélkakas — weather vane
- Irish: coileach gaoithe — weather vane
- Italian: galletto segnavento — weather vane
- Japanese: 風見鶏 (kazamidori) — weather vane
- Macedonian: ве́троказ (vétrokaz) — weather vane
- Norman: vithouette — weather vane
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vêrhane — weather vane
- Polish: kurek — weather vane
- Portuguese: cata-vento — weather vane
- Russian: флю́гер (fljúger) — weather vane
- Spanish: veleta — weather vane
- Swedish: väderhane — weather vane
- Swedish: vindflöjel — weather vane
- Tagalog: pabiling — weather vane
- Tagalog: girimpula — weather vane
- Tagalog: banoglawin — weather vane
- Ottoman Turkish: یل قوغان (yel koğan) — weather vane
- Danish: vendekåbe — a fickle, inconstant person
- Danish: vejrhane — a fickle, inconstant person
- Estonian: tuulelipp — a fickle, inconstant person
- Estonian: tuisupea — a fickle, inconstant person
- Finnish: tuuliviiri — a fickle, inconstant person
- Hungarian: szélkakas — a fickle, inconstant person
- Italian: banderuola — a fickle, inconstant person
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vêrhane — a fickle, inconstant person
- Portuguese: biruta de aeroporto — a fickle, inconstant person
- Spanish: veleta — a fickle, inconstant person