different between climate vs meteorology

English

Etymology

From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek ????? (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kla?m?t/

Noun

climate (plural climates)

1. (obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
2. (obsolete) A region of the Earth.
3. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     And the effects from climate change are already extreme.

4. (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral etc. situation.

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Verb

climate (third-person singular simple present climates, present participle climating, simple past and past participle climated)

1. (poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, V. i. 169:

     The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!

Further reading

• climate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• climate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• climate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• amletic, metical

Latin

Noun

climate

1. ablative singular of clima

English

Etymology

[1610] From French météorologie, from Ancient Greek ???????? (meté?ros, “high in the sky”) + -????? (-logía). Surface etymology is meteor (“atmospheric phenomenon”) +? -logy (“study of”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t?????l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?miti.?????l?d?i/

Noun

meteorology (countable and uncountable, plural meteorologies)

1. The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.
2. The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.

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• See also Thesaurus:meteorology

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See also

• aerology
• aeronomy
• weather forecasting