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Meanings of windsock 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 "sock"
Examples for "sock"
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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.
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
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 windsock in English
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.
6
They marked it with flags and a windsock.
7
The wind rippled her frame like a windsock.
8
Hoist the windsock; the storm's coming.
9
It may have been an airfield, for there was an orange windsock nearby straining in the horizontal position.
10
People should not swim in these areas An orange windsock (also above) denotes strong or offshore winds.
11
For heavy resistance we have a windsock attached to the kayak, which drags in the water to slow it down.
12
In the open field, a circle of red lights had been set in the ground and a small windsock hung limply from a metal pole.
13
Artemiss legs were dragged from the floor, flapping behind him like windsocks.
14
The windsocks on the goalposts are floating on the morning breeze.
15
It had three windsocks on poles, one at each end and one in the middle.
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The windsocks hung limp in the air.
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Translations for windsock
Russian
Spanish
Windsock through the time