How to pronounce windsock
American English pronunciation
WIND-sok
- IPA
- /ˈwɪndˌsɑk/
- Syllables
- WIND · sok (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What windsock means
A cloth tube on a pole that shows which way wind blows
In a sentence: The orange windsock at the little airport swung toward the east.
Where it comes from: It's wind plus sock: the long cloth tube fills with moving air the way a sock fills with a foot, and points the way the wind is going.
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