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# windsock

«windsock» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cloth tube on a pole that fills with wind and shows…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a windsock, windsocks)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/#m1)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «windsock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windsock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.