windsock

«windsock» in Mova's school dictionary: a cloth tube on a pole that fills with wind and shows… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a windsock, windsocks)

meaning for a pupil

A windsock is a cloth tube on a pole that fills with wind and shows which way and how strongly the wind is blowing. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used at airports, airfields and on boats; in weather and science lessons about measuring wind.

examples

• The windsock shows the pilot which way the wind blows. tree →
• When the windsock stands straight out, the wind is strong. tree →
• We made a windsock for our school weather station. tree →
• The windsock hung limp because there was no wind. tree →
• Airports have bright orange windsocks. tree →
• A windsock points away from where the wind comes from. tree →

note

Compound: wind + sock. Trap: the windsock points in the direction the wind is going TO; a «north wind» blows FROM the north, so the windsock points south.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «windsock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.