A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
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Examples for "sock"
Examples for "sock"
1The sock electrode rendered external defibrillation impossible, however, even at 360 J.
2The single-strap closure and inner sock lining allowed for a great fit.
3A few times, she has seen Kang clutching a girl's unwashed sock.
4Twice she crossed the room in search of a little missing sock.
5All day long, the sock does its frantic routine in the gallery.
1Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
2They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
3They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
4Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
5The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
1Known him for years. Then he looked at the helipad's windsock.
2There came a horrible gargling cry; the man's tongue flapped like a windsock.
3I was dressed in this kind of orange windsock, with a hideous black wig.
4But their landing strip was dry, the windsock limp.
5He saw a long strip of white cloth flying from a pole as a windsock.
1A tattered wind sock was barely visible, flying from a long curving pole.
2You scoop the air into it like a wind sock and use the roll-top to seal it up.
3Away from wind socks, control towers, loud speakers, and beams scanning skies.
4Aldric shattered more windows with his sword, and the force of the wind socked the car harder.
5"It's been lousy." He looked up at the wind sock.
1It was air -socks capitalism where we were socializing the losses and privatizing the gains.
1The app's display shows a series of concentric circles representing something parachutists call a wind cone.
2Problem is, when you're parachuting, you don't have a good way of knowing when you're in the wind cone.
Translations for wind cone