单词 | weatherman |
释义 | weathermann. 1. A man who observes or makes a report about the weather. Now chiefly: a man who presents the weather forecast on radio, television, etc. Cf. weatherwoman n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > one who studies or is skilled in meteorology meteorologer1555 meteorologician1580 meteorologian1583 meteorologist1638 weatherling1656 aerologist1847 aerographer1849 skygazer1860 weather-lorist1905 Met1943 society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of co-host1908 announcer1922 newsreader1925 race-reader1926 newscaster1930 sportscaster1930 quizzee1933 school broadcaster1937 commentator1938 racecaster1938 sportcaster1938 femcee1940 record jockey1940 disc jockey1941 narrator1941 deejay1946 colourman1947 anchorman1948 host1948 jock1952 speakerine1957 presenter1959 linkman1960 anchorwoman1961 rock jock1961 anchor1962 jockey1963 voice-over1966 anchorperson1971 outside broadcaster1971 news anchor1975 talk-master1975 satcaster1982 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > broadcasting > one who weather-forecaster1900 weather-casterc1904 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 34 A good archer wyl fyrste wyth diligent vse and markynge the wether, learne to knowe the nature of the wynde.., how muche it wyll alter his shoote... Therefore in shootynge there is..muche difference betwixt an archer that is a good wether man, and an other that knoweth and marketh nothynge. 1848 Daily Crescent (New Orleans) 17 Oct. The celebrated Brooklyn weather man..is up all night watching the clouds and thermometer. 1954 H. Basso View from Pompey's Head i. 13 The weatherman on the radio said it was going to clear up. It'll probably be a nice afternoon. 1983 Listener 14 July 17/3 We asked the weatherman, Jack Scott, to demonstrate some of those extraordinary regional variations for us. 2020 Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 16 Apr. The current warm and wet weather will continue for at least the next two weeks, the weatherman said yesterday. 2. With capital initial (in singular and then chiefly in plural): (the name of) a radical militant organization active in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s. Also (as a count noun): a male member of this organization. Now historical.The organization originally called itself Weatherman, its members quickly becoming known collectively as the Weathermen. In 1970, they issued a statement to the New York Times, in which they referred to themselves as the Weatherman underground (see quot. 1970). The organization is now often referred to as Weather Underground (see Weather Underground n. at weather n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies > members of Wiskinkie1800 funder1872 granger1875 Tammanyite1882 Bundist1907 America Firster1927 Bircher1961 Birchite1961 John Bircher1961 1969 Stanford Daily (Stanford Univ., Calif.) 1 July 1/3 The ‘weatherman’ group [of members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement]..took its name from Bob Dylan's lyric: ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ 1970 N.Y. Times 25 May 27/1 The statement, described as ‘a declaration of a state of war’ was said to be ‘the first communication from the Weatherman underground’. 1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 23 The West was agreed that the IRA, the Weathermen, the Red Army Faction..were composed of criminals, terrorists and murderers. 2003 Nation 23 June 34/3 Yes, I knew some Weathermen in 1969, and no, I wanted no part of them or their..Days of Rage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). > as lemmasweatherman weatherman n. (a) one who observes the weather; now also spec. one who presents a weather forecast on radio, television, etc.; (b) (frequently with capital initial and in plural) (a member of) a violent revolutionary group in the U.S. (see quot. weather n.); cf. Weather Underground n. below. Π 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 34 Therefore in shootynge there is as muche difference betwixt an archer that is a good wether man, and an other that knoweth and marketh nothynge, as is betwixte a blynde man, and he that can se. 1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Oct. 5/2 The ‘hot wave’, as the weather man calls it, was general along the coast and extended some way east. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 11/2 Nobody ever gets anywhere telling the weatherman how to behave. 1952 W. Stevens Let. 26 June (1967) 757 It did not go below 85° in N.Y. last night according to the weather man. 1970 Guardian 28 Oct. 13/3 The Weathermen have been in existence for just over a year, since the SDS [sc. Students for a Democratic Society] split of June, 1969... The Weathermen got their name from a line in a Bob Dylan song: ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ 1971 Times 15 Jan. 12/6 Could this country have acquired an Anglicized offshoot of the American Weatherman—or Weathermen as these violent urban guerillas are less accurately but probably more widely known? 1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 23 The West was agreed that the IRA, the Weathermen, the Red Army Faction..were composed of criminals, terrorists and murderers. 1983 Listener 14 July 17/3 We asked the weatherman, Jack Scott, to demonstrate some of those extraordinary regional variations for us. < n.1545 as lemmas |
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