WINDSOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windsock mean? 

• WINDSOCK (noun)
  The noun WINDSOCK has 1 sense:

1. a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

  Familiarity information: WINDSOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDSOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

air-sleeve; air sock; drogue; sock; wind cone; wind sleeve; wind sock; windsock

Hypernyms ("windsock" is a kind of...):

visual signal (a signal that involves visual communication)

 Context examples 

These giant bubbles of plasma, or electrified gas, pinch off from the end of a planet's magnetotail - the part of its magnetic field blown back by the Sun like a windsock.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)