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weathercock Meaning in Tamil ( weathercock வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Noun:

காற்றுத் திசை காட்டி,



weathercock தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

காற்று வீசும் திசையை அய்யிய காற்றுத் திசை காட்டிகள் பயன்படுகின்றன.

weathercock's Usage Examples:

The common story is that Lippershey, happening one day, whilst holding a spectacle-lens in either hand, to direct them towards the steeple of a neighbouring church, was astonished, on looking through the nearer lens, to find that the weathercock appeared nearer and more distinct.


From this model is derived the custom of placing weathercocks on steeples.


The building was surmounted by a weathercock in the form of a bronze Triton; it contained a water-clock to record the time when the sun was not shining.


Velocity anemometers may again be subdivided into two classes, (1) those which do not require a wind vane or weathercock, (2) those which do.


The graceful bell-tower, erected in 1224-1319, named La Ghirlandina from the bronze garland surrounding the weathercock, is 335 ft.


Probably a sphere would prove most useful for a pressure anemometer, since owing to its symmetrical shape it would not require a weathercock.


But doubt may be thrown on this traditional account owing to the further statement that the image of the weathercock so viewed was seen turned upside down.


He was the creature of every passing mood or whim, incapable of cool and steady judgment or of the slightest self-control - an incalculable weathercock, blindly obsequious to every blast of passion.


Above the shaft comes the arcaded bell-chamber, frequently built of Istrian stone; and above that again the attic, either round or square or octagonal, carrying either a cone or a pyramid or a cupola, sometimes surmounted by a cross or a gilded angel which serves as a weathercock.


A squat tower capped by a pyramid roof with a weathercock.


He shifted his ground in politics with every new moon, and the world fastened on him the nickname, which he himself adopted in his "champagne" speech, of the weathercock.


squat tower capped by a pyramid roof with a weathercock.





Synonyms:

weathervane, weather vane, wind vane, vane,



Antonyms:

None

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