mountain windn.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊntᵻn ˌwɪnd/, U.S.

/ˌmaʊnt(ə)n ˈwɪnd/

Forms: see mountain n. and adj. and wind n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mountain n., wind n.¹

Etymology: < mountain n. + wind n.¹

1. A wind occurring or originating in the mountains.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 502 As free As mountaine windes .

1763 J. Macpherson Temora v. 87 He sat..amidst the mountain-wind.

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 152 The mountain wind..Sweeps the blue streams of pestilence away.

1988 D. O'Brien Rites of Autumn i. 10 She is deaf to the peregrine's screams that fade into the whining mountain wind.

2000 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Electronic ed.) 20 June The front nine is a links-style layout, with nary a tree as golfers' skills are ripped bare by mountain winds.

2. Meteorology. An up-flowing or down-flowing wind caused by heating or cooling of air above mountain slopes; spec. a cold wind flowing down into a valley at night. Cf. anabatic adj. 2, katabatic adj.

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1920 W. J. Humphreys Physics of Air vii. 111 Where the valley is long and rather steep..the down-flowing air current may attain the velocity of a gale and become a veritable aerial torrent. This drainage flow is known..as the mountain breeze, or mountain wind.

1989 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 458/2 One subset of such winds, known as mountain winds or breezes, is induced by differential heating or cooling along mountain slopes. During the day, solar heating of the sunlit slopes causes the overlying air to move upslope. At night, as the slopes cool, the motion is reversed and cool downslope motion occurs.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mountain wind
释义	mountain windn. Brit. /ˈmaʊntᵻn ˌwɪnd/, U.S. /ˌmaʊnt(ə)n ˈwɪnd/ Forms: see mountain n. and adj. and wind n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mountain n., wind n.¹ Etymology: < mountain n. + wind n.¹ 1. A wind occurring or originating in the mountains. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 502 As free As mountaine windes . View more context for this quotation 1763 J. Macpherson Temora v. 87 He sat..amidst the mountain-wind. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 152 The mountain wind..Sweeps the blue streams of pestilence away. 1988 D. O'Brien Rites of Autumn i. 10 She is deaf to the peregrine's screams that fade into the whining mountain wind. 2000 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Electronic ed.) 20 June The front nine is a links-style layout, with nary a tree as golfers' skills are ripped bare by mountain winds. 2. Meteorology. An up-flowing or down-flowing wind caused by heating or cooling of air above mountain slopes; spec. a cold wind flowing down into a valley at night. Cf. anabatic adj. 2, katabatic adj. ΚΠ 1920 W. J. Humphreys Physics of Air vii. 111 Where the valley is long and rather steep..the down-flowing air current may attain the velocity of a gale and become a veritable aerial torrent. This drainage flow is known..as the mountain breeze, or mountain wind. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 458/2 One subset of such winds, known as mountain winds or breezes, is induced by differential heating or cooling along mountain slopes. During the day, solar heating of the sunlit slopes causes the overlying air to move upslope. At night, as the slopes cool, the motion is reversed and cool downslope motion occurs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1616
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