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weather vane

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Household, Meteorology, Geography
ˈweather vane noun [countable]  DHWEATHERa metal object fixed to the top of a building that blows around to show the direction the wind is coming from 风标
Examples from the Corpus
weather vaneThe strange, fixed weather vane that stands in the lee of the vicarage at Rennes-le-Chateau.
ˈweather vane nounChineseSyllable
to a the a Corpus of metal fixed building object top


weather vane
ˈweather vane noun [countable]
a metal object fixed to the top of a building that blows around to show the direction the wind is coming from