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# windsock

noun (a windsock, windsocks)

«windsock» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A windsock is a cloth tube on a pole that fills with wind and shows which way and how strongly the wind is blowing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#m1)

### In the lessons

Used at airports, airfields and on boats; in weather and science lessons about measuring wind.

### Examples

- The windsock shows the pilot which way the wind blows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#x1)
- When the windsock stands straight out, the wind is strong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#x2)
- We made a windsock for our school weather station. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#x3)
- The windsock hung limp because there was no wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#x4)
- Airports have bright orange windsocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#x5)
- A windsock points away from where the wind comes from. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#x6)

### Note

Compound: wind + sock. Trap: the windsock points in the direction the wind is going TO; a «north wind» blows FROM the north, so the windsock points south.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «windsock» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«windsock» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/windsock.html) on Mova free.