Vocabulary of the day: The weather

Vocabulary of the day: #02

The weather

Cloud /klaʊd/: A visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the general level of the ground.

Exemple:

‘the sun had disappeared behind a cloud’

Lightning /ˈlʌɪtnɪŋ/: The occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder.

Exemple:

‘a tremendous flash of lightning’

Moon /muːn/ : The natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.

Exemples:

‘there was no moon, but a sky sparkling with brilliant stars’

‘the first man on the moon’

Rain /reɪn/ : The condensed moisture of the atmosphere falling visibly in separate drops.

Exemples:

‘the rain had not stopped for days’

‘it's pouring with rain’

Rainbow /ˈreɪnbəʊ/: An arch of colours visible in the sky, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere. The colours of the rainbow are generally said to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Exemple:

‘all the colours of the rainbow’

Snow /snəʊ/ :Atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.

Exemple:

‘we were trudging through deep snow’

star /stɑː/: A fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.

Exemple:

‘Previous attempts to measure a neutron star's redshift focused on a star with an enormous magnetic field.’

Sun /sʌn/: the sun" or "the SunThe star round which the earth orbits.

wind /wʌɪnd/: The perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction.


Exemples: 

‘the wind howled about the building’

‘an easterly wind’