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Meanings of sock in English
A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
Synonyms
Examples for "drogue"
Examples for "drogue"
1
Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
2
They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
3
They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
4
Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
5
The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
1
Known him for years. Then he looked at the helipad's windsock.
2
There came a horrible gargling cry; the man's tongue flapped like a windsock.
3
I was dressed in this kind of orange windsock, with a hideous black wig.
4
But their landing strip was dry, the windsock limp.
5
He saw a long strip of white cloth flying from a pole as a windsock.
1
A tattered wind sock was barely visible, flying from a long curving pole.
2
You scoop the air into it like a wind sock and use the roll-top to seal it up.
3
Away from wind socks, control towers, loud speakers, and beams scanning skies.
4
Aldric 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.
1
It was air -socks capitalism where we were socializing the losses and privatizing the gains.
1
The app's display shows a series of concentric circles representing something parachutists call a wind cone.
2
Problem is, when you're parachuting, you don't have a good way of knowing when you're in the wind cone.
Usage of sock in English
1
The sock electrode rendered external defibrillation impossible, however, even at 360 J.
2
The single-strap closure and inner sock lining allowed for a great fit.
3
A few times, she has seen Kang clutching a girl's unwashed sock.
4
Twice she crossed the room in search of a little missing sock.
5
All day long, the sock does its frantic routine in the gallery.
6
Why not goldfish left Lincoln Logs in your sock drawer, you know?
7
Mr. Reginald Butterwick looked still more earnestly at the sock and said:
8
Place into a casserole, add the tomatoes, garlic, beef sock and parsley.
9
Bond investors generally jump at the chance to sock away Cisco debt.
10
The BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos explained the discovery using a sock.
11
Scent tracking has been useless. She held up a small pink sock.
12
I collapsed on the living room floor and pulled off my sock.
13
Photo: Dwayne Lohmann And then, a campsite a with a burnt sock.
14
Go to sleep, but also sometimes meaning put a sock in it.
15
A shredded bit of red sock-or something else red-still clung to it.
16
He stood on one foot and pulled a sock on the other.
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Sock through the time
Sock across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common