Definition of winter in English:

winter

noun ˈwɪntəˈwɪn(t)ər

1The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August.
冬，冬天，冬季
the tree has a good crop of berries in winter
这树在冬季能产大量的浆果。
as modifier the winter months
冬季月份。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is characterized by cold winters and relatively long growing seasons, averaging 60 frost-free days per year.
- Flights are suspended to Antarctica around the end of February each year when the Southern Hemisphere winter makes it too cold to fly.
- The weed, which turns its distinctive red shade during the cold winter months, is not dangerous in itself.
- We're looking at some idea that it might be a colder than normal winter in the Northeast and Midwest.
- Therefore, short, cool growing seasons and cold winters are often thought of as barriers to crop growth and diversification in the Subarctic.
- During the long, cold winters in northeast China they skate on rivers and lakes or in skating rinks.
- The climate here is normally split into two seasons, long cold winters and long hot summers.
- The frugal vacationer travels in between the summer months and the cold winter.
- I'd buy a house in Gran Canaria to spend the cold winter months.
- At the moment the Earth's closest approach to the Sun occurs in January, when the North Pole is pointing away from the Sun, resulting in slightly colder northern hemisphere winters.
- In southern Mongolia, the winters have been getting colder and the summers hotter, with barely a springtime buffer zone.
- The opera begins a winter / spring season that includes ballet, comedy, classical music, children's shows and several bands.
- Through February, the usual winter fishing locations should continue to be your best bet.
- The coldest peaks of winter usually occur in August and September, so many fear a heightened emergency.
- The season was late winter and periodic night-time frosts were still occurring.
- A leading local politician has urged pensioners to take advantage of a government initiative to heat their homes during the cold winter months.
- The temperate regions of southern Australia have four seasons, with cool winters and hot summers.
- Gourlay has been looking forward to returning home from Sydney, even if he is loathe to swap the sunshine of a southern hemisphere spring for the cold of a Scottish winter.
- If you are looking for some respite from the cold winter months there is an abundance of destinations to suit all budgets.
- But after a cold winter in the southern uplands you may recognise that ending up on a human dinner plate is not so bad.
1. 1.1Astronomy The period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
  〔天文〕从冬至点到春分点的期间
  Example sentencesExamples
  Saturnalia celebrated the rebirth of Saturn, the god of the harvest, and the dawn of the new year from the winter's darkness.
  Similarly the winters in the north are shorter and milder than they would be otherwise.
  Because the Chinese calendar is lunar based, the Chinese new year begins on the 2nd new moon of winter, usually sometime in February.
  It would put Britain one hour ahead of GMT in the winter and two hours ahead in the summer, giving lighter evenings throughout the year.
  Spirit and Opportunity have also roved through the worst of the Martian winter with flying colors, and spring is on the horizon.
2. 1.2wintersliterary Years.
  he seemed a hundred winters old
  他好像有百岁高龄了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Find those things and nourish them through the summers and winters of this lifetime.
  Several winters ago, I spent a morning in a makeshift ground blind on a rocky hillside near Laredo.
  Hoggard has spent the last two winters playing as overseas professional with Free State in South Africa which is Donald's club and the great man has coached and helped him along.
  A striker who spent two winters at Highfield Road and enjoyed his best period alongside Macdonald at Newcastle.
  But before she ended her career she spent two winters, from 1965 to 1967, chartered to operate between Los Angeles and Acapulco for Princess Cruises.
  Newman's innings was the first time this summer he had managed to convert a solid start into a significant score and showed many of the skills that earned him Academy recognition two winters ago.
  Upon retirement, Hugh and Florence spent 18 wonderful winters in Quartzite, Arizona with many very valued friends.
  Between 1971 and 1998 she became a much traveled lady and spent 17 winters in Hong Kong with her son Mick who was employed there.
  He spent two winters in what is now called Gjoa Haven.
  After university, where I did consumer and management studies, I spent a few winters in Australia coaching and playing cricket semi - professionally.

adjectiveˈwɪntəˈwɪn(t)ər

1attributive (of fruit) ripening late in the year.
（水果）冬季才成熟的
a winter apple
冬季成熟的苹果。
Example sentencesExamples
- Several lines of evidence suggest winter fruit may be important to less frugivorous species as well.
- Sadly, the accompanying winter fruits were still partially frozen.
- Herbaceous, winter fruit aromas, complex violet and ripe berry fruits with hints of spice and dried orange peel.
- Classic Bordelaise fruit gives way to a dense texture of winter forest fruits with an elegant, muscular finish.
- The others went for the escallops of pork served on a bed of butternut squash purée with wild mushroom brandy sauce and a winter fruit chutney.
- No purist, he happily uses olive oil in a Thai-style curry paste, chops cress on to avocados and serves pomegranate, a winter fruit, at a summer party.
1. 1.1 (of wheat or other crops) sown in autumn for harvesting the following year.
  （麦等）秋季播种来年收获的，越冬的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Production of winter wheat, harvested in July, was down by up to 50 percent.
  The very warm and dry conditions had seen half of lowland winter barley crops harvested with winter oilseed rape not far behind.
  In Kansas, I see that some of the winter wheat has been harvested.
  The Paull land has just yielded its last harvest of winter wheat and barley.
  The study is researching the practice of planting soybeans into cover crops of winter rye.
  In the Black Earth region wheat was the predominant winter crop, with rye elsewhere.
  The growing cycle of the new oilseeds allows them to be planted after harvest on land used for winter wheat, making two crops a year from the same acreage.
  The greatest risk is in fields where a winter cereal cover crop has been used.
  Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been.
  To make a good return from markets, you need to have spring, summer, autumn and winter crops.
  As many as two-thirds of the shoots produced in a winter wheat crop may fail to survive to form ears and yield grain.
  In this situation, we plant the hay seed into a nurse crop of winter wheat or spring oats.
  The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch.
  The war is already interfering with the harvesting of winter crops and the planting of spring ones.
  The fourth data set comes from the growth of a field winter wheat crop.
  They introduced wheat as a winter crop alongside maize.
  Already, India has reported a 10 percent drop in its winter rice harvest.
  The Russian wheat aphid is a major pest of winter wheat and barley in the United States and worldwide.
  Soft red winter wheat and corn used were produced on farms in southeast Virginia and obtained from a local grain dealer.
  Varieties of winter wheat used for grain may also be used for forage.

verb ˈwɪntəˈwɪn(t)ər

1no object, with adverbial of place (especially of a bird) spend the winter in a particular place.
（尤指鸟）在某处过冬，越冬
birds wintering in the Channel Islands
在英吉利海峡过冬的鸟。
Example sentencesExamples
- These birds bred mainly in west Siberia, and wintered as far south as South Africa.
- The entire breeding population of sedge warblers winters in Africa south of the Sahara.
- Migration is an intrinsic behavior of birds that winter in one location and breed in another.
- The pink-footed geese wintering in Britain breed in Iceland and East Greenland.
- A car provides an excellent mobile observatory for tracking down and observing contingents of pink-footed geese wintering in north-west Norfolk.
- Like many of the Arctic refuge's birds, snow geese winter in warmer parts of the lower 48 states.
- Warblers wintering in Britain can claim the best breeding sites.
- The Harris's Sparrow is a rare but regular wintering bird in Washington.
- These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways.
- American Pipits are present in Washington as breeders, migrants, and wintering birds.
- For birds wintering at that northerly location, spring migrations may be less arduous, leading to increased survival and breeding success.
- Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May.
- Cold weather, a lack of food or disturbance can however cause wintering birds to seek new sites.
- In wintering birds, conflicts over food are often resolved by threat displays.
- The birds wintering in Washington breed in the northern Great Plains, usually beginning by late April.
- Some continental birds wintering here arrived in Scotland direct from Scandinavia; others enter East Anglia through Holland and Belgium.
- Only one bird - the emperor penguin - will winter on Antarctica and use the frozen continent as a nursery.
- Although there is a growing literature on wintering strategies in birds, most of the hormone mechanisms remain entirely unknown.
- Eleven species of migratory warblers wintered in Britain last year.
- Feeding and squatting in the sun and all indifferent to passing trains, bean geese have wintered in this favoured area of the Yare valley many years.
1. 1.1with object Keep or feed (plants or cattle) during winter.
  冬季护养（植物）；冬季饲养（牲口）；使度过冬季
  Example sentencesExamples
  During this season, the herders of animals would kill off all the livestock that was not to be wintered over.
  His cows (he milks 35 Dutch belted, Jerseys, and milking shorthorns) are wintered outdoors on 265 acres of highly erodible land and prior converted wetlands.
  In the same village, 70-year-old Samba Tutu winters her grain in the middle of the main road.
  Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted.
  There are no slatted sheds allowed in Scotland so wintering cattle can be pretty labour intensive.
  A natural extension to this was a scheme to move animals to the feed rather than the feed to the animals, with both cattle and sheep being wintered away from their own upland holding to the lowlands of the Vale of York.
  The cows are wintered at home on arable by-products and are moved to Fleensop to graze in the spring.
  Neighbouring regions pitied the inhabitants of the Burren, who had to winter their cattle on the mountain slopes to earn a decent living.
  Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow.
  We never wintered cattle there because of its remoteness and lack of shelter.
  Store cattle being wintered with a view to finishing off grass next summer will require 2-3 kg meal/day with poor quality silage.

Derivatives

winterer
〈诗/文〉年，岁

noun

Also, the Shackleton has been here and left this morning with the last of last year's winterers on it.
Example sentencesExamples
- The winterers paddled from the interior to Grand Portage for the rendezvous and back.
- Two Annas arrived, at the same River Ridge home, after many of the winterers had already departed.
- The outgoing winterers are leaving their home for the last year and for them it can be very emotional even though most are very anxious to get home.
- Canoes used by the winterers on narrow, rapid waters were about 25 feet long and carried four to six voyagers.
- It was very exciting not to be on base but at the same time I was so used to being around a small bunch of winterers that not being with them was very odd.
- We had more problems in the first two hours of the winter than the previous winterers had all year.

winterless
〈诗/文〉年，岁

adjective

Coming to you from sunny winterless Queensland.
Example sentencesExamples
- I decided I needed a mid-winter break so what better place to visit than the Bay of Islands in the winterless north?

winterly
〈诗/文〉年，岁

adjective

If therefore after the pick up of the vehicle winterly conditions set in and you do not have snow tyres, significant additional charges may occur.
Example sentencesExamples
- Guided tour through the winterly forest followed by hotpot meal and mulled wine at the outer pavilion of our hotel
- You have to beware of many dangers on the winterly roads of Lapland.
- The proverbial ‘remoteness’ of the winterly polar environment may become a trauma for sensitive persons.
- Organisers are anticipating with great interest the results of the last exhibition day which was marked by deep winterly weather conditions.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch winter and German Winter, probably also to wet.

The word winter is probably related to wet (see water), with the basic idea being ‘the wet season’. Richard III: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York’ gave us The winter of discontent of 1978–79 in Britain, when widespread strikes forced the Labour government out of power.

Rhymes

Jacinta, midwinter, Minter, Pinta, Pinter, printer, splinter, sprinter, tinter

Definition of winter in US English:

winter

nounˈwin(t)ərˈwɪn(t)ər

1The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August.
冬，冬天，冬季
the tree has a good crop of berries in winter
这树在冬季能产大量的浆果。
as modifier the winter months
冬季月份。
Example sentencesExamples
- Gourlay has been looking forward to returning home from Sydney, even if he is loathe to swap the sunshine of a southern hemisphere spring for the cold of a Scottish winter.
- It is characterized by cold winters and relatively long growing seasons, averaging 60 frost-free days per year.
- The frugal vacationer travels in between the summer months and the cold winter.
- The coldest peaks of winter usually occur in August and September, so many fear a heightened emergency.
- At the moment the Earth's closest approach to the Sun occurs in January, when the North Pole is pointing away from the Sun, resulting in slightly colder northern hemisphere winters.
- The opera begins a winter / spring season that includes ballet, comedy, classical music, children's shows and several bands.
- Therefore, short, cool growing seasons and cold winters are often thought of as barriers to crop growth and diversification in the Subarctic.
- If you are looking for some respite from the cold winter months there is an abundance of destinations to suit all budgets.
- The weed, which turns its distinctive red shade during the cold winter months, is not dangerous in itself.
- I'd buy a house in Gran Canaria to spend the cold winter months.
- We're looking at some idea that it might be a colder than normal winter in the Northeast and Midwest.
- But after a cold winter in the southern uplands you may recognise that ending up on a human dinner plate is not so bad.
- Flights are suspended to Antarctica around the end of February each year when the Southern Hemisphere winter makes it too cold to fly.
- The temperate regions of southern Australia have four seasons, with cool winters and hot summers.
- A leading local politician has urged pensioners to take advantage of a government initiative to heat their homes during the cold winter months.
- Through February, the usual winter fishing locations should continue to be your best bet.
- The season was late winter and periodic night-time frosts were still occurring.
- In southern Mongolia, the winters have been getting colder and the summers hotter, with barely a springtime buffer zone.
- The climate here is normally split into two seasons, long cold winters and long hot summers.
- During the long, cold winters in northeast China they skate on rivers and lakes or in skating rinks.
1. 1.1Astronomy The period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
  〔天文〕从冬至点到春分点的期间
  Example sentencesExamples
  Saturnalia celebrated the rebirth of Saturn, the god of the harvest, and the dawn of the new year from the winter's darkness.
  Because the Chinese calendar is lunar based, the Chinese new year begins on the 2nd new moon of winter, usually sometime in February.
  Similarly the winters in the north are shorter and milder than they would be otherwise.
  It would put Britain one hour ahead of GMT in the winter and two hours ahead in the summer, giving lighter evenings throughout the year.
  Spirit and Opportunity have also roved through the worst of the Martian winter with flying colors, and spring is on the horizon.
2. 1.2wintersliterary Years.
  he seemed a hundred winters old
  他好像有百岁高龄了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He spent two winters in what is now called Gjoa Haven.
  But before she ended her career she spent two winters, from 1965 to 1967, chartered to operate between Los Angeles and Acapulco for Princess Cruises.
  Several winters ago, I spent a morning in a makeshift ground blind on a rocky hillside near Laredo.
  Upon retirement, Hugh and Florence spent 18 wonderful winters in Quartzite, Arizona with many very valued friends.
  Find those things and nourish them through the summers and winters of this lifetime.
  Hoggard has spent the last two winters playing as overseas professional with Free State in South Africa which is Donald's club and the great man has coached and helped him along.
  Newman's innings was the first time this summer he had managed to convert a solid start into a significant score and showed many of the skills that earned him Academy recognition two winters ago.
  Between 1971 and 1998 she became a much traveled lady and spent 17 winters in Hong Kong with her son Mick who was employed there.
  After university, where I did consumer and management studies, I spent a few winters in Australia coaching and playing cricket semi - professionally.
  A striker who spent two winters at Highfield Road and enjoyed his best period alongside Macdonald at Newcastle.

adjectiveˈwin(t)ərˈwɪn(t)ər

1attributive (of fruit and vegetables) ripening late in the growing season and suitable for storage over the winter.
a winter apple
冬季成熟的苹果。
Example sentencesExamples
- Classic Bordelaise fruit gives way to a dense texture of winter forest fruits with an elegant, muscular finish.
- Sadly, the accompanying winter fruits were still partially frozen.
- The others went for the escallops of pork served on a bed of butternut squash purée with wild mushroom brandy sauce and a winter fruit chutney.
- Herbaceous, winter fruit aromas, complex violet and ripe berry fruits with hints of spice and dried orange peel.
- No purist, he happily uses olive oil in a Thai-style curry paste, chops cress on to avocados and serves pomegranate, a winter fruit, at a summer party.
- Several lines of evidence suggest winter fruit may be important to less frugivorous species as well.
1. 1.1 (of wheat or other crops) sown in autumn for harvesting the following year.
  （麦等）秋季播种来年收获的，越冬的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the Black Earth region wheat was the predominant winter crop, with rye elsewhere.
  The fourth data set comes from the growth of a field winter wheat crop.
  The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch.
  They introduced wheat as a winter crop alongside maize.
  Production of winter wheat, harvested in July, was down by up to 50 percent.
  In Kansas, I see that some of the winter wheat has been harvested.
  To make a good return from markets, you need to have spring, summer, autumn and winter crops.
  Varieties of winter wheat used for grain may also be used for forage.
  In this situation, we plant the hay seed into a nurse crop of winter wheat or spring oats.
  As many as two-thirds of the shoots produced in a winter wheat crop may fail to survive to form ears and yield grain.
  The very warm and dry conditions had seen half of lowland winter barley crops harvested with winter oilseed rape not far behind.
  Already, India has reported a 10 percent drop in its winter rice harvest.
  The Paull land has just yielded its last harvest of winter wheat and barley.
  The growing cycle of the new oilseeds allows them to be planted after harvest on land used for winter wheat, making two crops a year from the same acreage.
  The study is researching the practice of planting soybeans into cover crops of winter rye.
  The greatest risk is in fields where a winter cereal cover crop has been used.
  The Russian wheat aphid is a major pest of winter wheat and barley in the United States and worldwide.
  Soft red winter wheat and corn used were produced on farms in southeast Virginia and obtained from a local grain dealer.
  Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been.
  The war is already interfering with the harvesting of winter crops and the planting of spring ones.

verbˈwin(t)ərˈwɪn(t)ər

1no object, with adverbial of place (especially of a bird) spend the winter in a particular place.
（尤指鸟）在某处过冬，越冬
birds wintering in the Caribbean
在英吉利海峡过冬的鸟。
Example sentencesExamples
- Cold weather, a lack of food or disturbance can however cause wintering birds to seek new sites.
- These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways.
- A car provides an excellent mobile observatory for tracking down and observing contingents of pink-footed geese wintering in north-west Norfolk.
- The Harris's Sparrow is a rare but regular wintering bird in Washington.
- In wintering birds, conflicts over food are often resolved by threat displays.
- These birds bred mainly in west Siberia, and wintered as far south as South Africa.
- Like many of the Arctic refuge's birds, snow geese winter in warmer parts of the lower 48 states.
- Migration is an intrinsic behavior of birds that winter in one location and breed in another.
- American Pipits are present in Washington as breeders, migrants, and wintering birds.
- Only one bird - the emperor penguin - will winter on Antarctica and use the frozen continent as a nursery.
- Although there is a growing literature on wintering strategies in birds, most of the hormone mechanisms remain entirely unknown.
- The entire breeding population of sedge warblers winters in Africa south of the Sahara.
- The birds wintering in Washington breed in the northern Great Plains, usually beginning by late April.
- Eleven species of migratory warblers wintered in Britain last year.
- The pink-footed geese wintering in Britain breed in Iceland and East Greenland.
- Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May.
- Warblers wintering in Britain can claim the best breeding sites.
- Some continental birds wintering here arrived in Scotland direct from Scandinavia; others enter East Anglia through Holland and Belgium.
- For birds wintering at that northerly location, spring migrations may be less arduous, leading to increased survival and breeding success.
- Feeding and squatting in the sun and all indifferent to passing trains, bean geese have wintered in this favoured area of the Yare valley many years.
1. 1.1with object Keep or feed (plants or cattle) during winter.
  冬季护养（植物）；冬季饲养（牲口）；使度过冬季
  Example sentencesExamples
  Store cattle being wintered with a view to finishing off grass next summer will require 2-3 kg meal/day with poor quality silage.
  Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted.
  Neighbouring regions pitied the inhabitants of the Burren, who had to winter their cattle on the mountain slopes to earn a decent living.
  His cows (he milks 35 Dutch belted, Jerseys, and milking shorthorns) are wintered outdoors on 265 acres of highly erodible land and prior converted wetlands.
  During this season, the herders of animals would kill off all the livestock that was not to be wintered over.
  A natural extension to this was a scheme to move animals to the feed rather than the feed to the animals, with both cattle and sheep being wintered away from their own upland holding to the lowlands of the Vale of York.
  There are no slatted sheds allowed in Scotland so wintering cattle can be pretty labour intensive.
  In the same village, 70-year-old Samba Tutu winters her grain in the middle of the main road.
  Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow.
  The cows are wintered at home on arable by-products and are moved to Fleensop to graze in the spring.
  We never wintered cattle there because of its remoteness and lack of shelter.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch winter and German Winter, probably also to wet.

词汇	winter
释义	Definition of winter in English: winter noun ˈwɪntəˈwɪn(t)ər 1The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August. 冬，冬天，冬季 the tree has a good crop of berries in winter 这树在冬季能产大量的浆果。 as modifier the winter months 冬季月份。 Example sentencesExamples It is characterized by cold winters and relatively long growing seasons, averaging 60 frost-free days per year. Flights are suspended to Antarctica around the end of February each year when the Southern Hemisphere winter makes it too cold to fly. The weed, which turns its distinctive red shade during the cold winter months, is not dangerous in itself. We're looking at some idea that it might be a colder than normal winter in the Northeast and Midwest. Therefore, short, cool growing seasons and cold winters are often thought of as barriers to crop growth and diversification in the Subarctic. During the long, cold winters in northeast China they skate on rivers and lakes or in skating rinks. The climate here is normally split into two seasons, long cold winters and long hot summers. The frugal vacationer travels in between the summer months and the cold winter. I'd buy a house in Gran Canaria to spend the cold winter months. At the moment the Earth's closest approach to the Sun occurs in January, when the North Pole is pointing away from the Sun, resulting in slightly colder northern hemisphere winters. In southern Mongolia, the winters have been getting colder and the summers hotter, with barely a springtime buffer zone. The opera begins a winter / spring season that includes ballet, comedy, classical music, children's shows and several bands. Through February, the usual winter fishing locations should continue to be your best bet. The coldest peaks of winter usually occur in August and September, so many fear a heightened emergency. The season was late winter and periodic night-time frosts were still occurring. A leading local politician has urged pensioners to take advantage of a government initiative to heat their homes during the cold winter months. The temperate regions of southern Australia have four seasons, with cool winters and hot summers. Gourlay has been looking forward to returning home from Sydney, even if he is loathe to swap the sunshine of a southern hemisphere spring for the cold of a Scottish winter. If you are looking for some respite from the cold winter months there is an abundance of destinations to suit all budgets. But after a cold winter in the southern uplands you may recognise that ending up on a human dinner plate is not so bad. 1.1Astronomy The period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox. 〔天文〕从冬至点到春分点的期间 Example sentencesExamples Saturnalia celebrated the rebirth of Saturn, the god of the harvest, and the dawn of the new year from the winter's darkness. Similarly the winters in the north are shorter and milder than they would be otherwise. Because the Chinese calendar is lunar based, the Chinese new year begins on the 2nd new moon of winter, usually sometime in February. It would put Britain one hour ahead of GMT in the winter and two hours ahead in the summer, giving lighter evenings throughout the year. Spirit and Opportunity have also roved through the worst of the Martian winter with flying colors, and spring is on the horizon. 1.2wintersliterary Years. he seemed a hundred winters old 他好像有百岁高龄了。 Example sentencesExamples Find those things and nourish them through the summers and winters of this lifetime. Several winters ago, I spent a morning in a makeshift ground blind on a rocky hillside near Laredo. Hoggard has spent the last two winters playing as overseas professional with Free State in South Africa which is Donald's club and the great man has coached and helped him along. A striker who spent two winters at Highfield Road and enjoyed his best period alongside Macdonald at Newcastle. But before she ended her career she spent two winters, from 1965 to 1967, chartered to operate between Los Angeles and Acapulco for Princess Cruises. Newman's innings was the first time this summer he had managed to convert a solid start into a significant score and showed many of the skills that earned him Academy recognition two winters ago. Upon retirement, Hugh and Florence spent 18 wonderful winters in Quartzite, Arizona with many very valued friends. Between 1971 and 1998 she became a much traveled lady and spent 17 winters in Hong Kong with her son Mick who was employed there. He spent two winters in what is now called Gjoa Haven. After university, where I did consumer and management studies, I spent a few winters in Australia coaching and playing cricket semi - professionally. adjectiveˈwɪntəˈwɪn(t)ər 1attributive (of fruit) ripening late in the year. （水果）冬季才成熟的 a winter apple 冬季成熟的苹果。 Example sentencesExamples Several lines of evidence suggest winter fruit may be important to less frugivorous species as well. Sadly, the accompanying winter fruits were still partially frozen. Herbaceous, winter fruit aromas, complex violet and ripe berry fruits with hints of spice and dried orange peel. Classic Bordelaise fruit gives way to a dense texture of winter forest fruits with an elegant, muscular finish. The others went for the escallops of pork served on a bed of butternut squash purée with wild mushroom brandy sauce and a winter fruit chutney. No purist, he happily uses olive oil in a Thai-style curry paste, chops cress on to avocados and serves pomegranate, a winter fruit, at a summer party. 1.1 (of wheat or other crops) sown in autumn for harvesting the following year. （麦等）秋季播种来年收获的，越冬的 Example sentencesExamples Production of winter wheat, harvested in July, was down by up to 50 percent. The very warm and dry conditions had seen half of lowland winter barley crops harvested with winter oilseed rape not far behind. In Kansas, I see that some of the winter wheat has been harvested. The Paull land has just yielded its last harvest of winter wheat and barley. The study is researching the practice of planting soybeans into cover crops of winter rye. In the Black Earth region wheat was the predominant winter crop, with rye elsewhere. The growing cycle of the new oilseeds allows them to be planted after harvest on land used for winter wheat, making two crops a year from the same acreage. The greatest risk is in fields where a winter cereal cover crop has been used. Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been. To make a good return from markets, you need to have spring, summer, autumn and winter crops. As many as two-thirds of the shoots produced in a winter wheat crop may fail to survive to form ears and yield grain. In this situation, we plant the hay seed into a nurse crop of winter wheat or spring oats. The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch. The war is already interfering with the harvesting of winter crops and the planting of spring ones. The fourth data set comes from the growth of a field winter wheat crop. They introduced wheat as a winter crop alongside maize. Already, India has reported a 10 percent drop in its winter rice harvest. The Russian wheat aphid is a major pest of winter wheat and barley in the United States and worldwide. Soft red winter wheat and corn used were produced on farms in southeast Virginia and obtained from a local grain dealer. Varieties of winter wheat used for grain may also be used for forage. verb ˈwɪntəˈwɪn(t)ər 1no object, with adverbial of place (especially of a bird) spend the winter in a particular place. （尤指鸟）在某处过冬，越冬 birds wintering in the Channel Islands 在英吉利海峡过冬的鸟。 Example sentencesExamples These birds bred mainly in west Siberia, and wintered as far south as South Africa. The entire breeding population of sedge warblers winters in Africa south of the Sahara. Migration is an intrinsic behavior of birds that winter in one location and breed in another. The pink-footed geese wintering in Britain breed in Iceland and East Greenland. A car provides an excellent mobile observatory for tracking down and observing contingents of pink-footed geese wintering in north-west Norfolk. Like many of the Arctic refuge's birds, snow geese winter in warmer parts of the lower 48 states. Warblers wintering in Britain can claim the best breeding sites. The Harris's Sparrow is a rare but regular wintering bird in Washington. These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways. American Pipits are present in Washington as breeders, migrants, and wintering birds. For birds wintering at that northerly location, spring migrations may be less arduous, leading to increased survival and breeding success. Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May. Cold weather, a lack of food or disturbance can however cause wintering birds to seek new sites. In wintering birds, conflicts over food are often resolved by threat displays. The birds wintering in Washington breed in the northern Great Plains, usually beginning by late April. Some continental birds wintering here arrived in Scotland direct from Scandinavia; others enter East Anglia through Holland and Belgium. Only one bird - the emperor penguin - will winter on Antarctica and use the frozen continent as a nursery. Although there is a growing literature on wintering strategies in birds, most of the hormone mechanisms remain entirely unknown. Eleven species of migratory warblers wintered in Britain last year. Feeding and squatting in the sun and all indifferent to passing trains, bean geese have wintered in this favoured area of the Yare valley many years. 1.1with object Keep or feed (plants or cattle) during winter. 冬季护养（植物）；冬季饲养（牲口）；使度过冬季 Example sentencesExamples During this season, the herders of animals would kill off all the livestock that was not to be wintered over. His cows (he milks 35 Dutch belted, Jerseys, and milking shorthorns) are wintered outdoors on 265 acres of highly erodible land and prior converted wetlands. In the same village, 70-year-old Samba Tutu winters her grain in the middle of the main road. Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted. There are no slatted sheds allowed in Scotland so wintering cattle can be pretty labour intensive. A natural extension to this was a scheme to move animals to the feed rather than the feed to the animals, with both cattle and sheep being wintered away from their own upland holding to the lowlands of the Vale of York. The cows are wintered at home on arable by-products and are moved to Fleensop to graze in the spring. Neighbouring regions pitied the inhabitants of the Burren, who had to winter their cattle on the mountain slopes to earn a decent living. Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow. We never wintered cattle there because of its remoteness and lack of shelter. Store cattle being wintered with a view to finishing off grass next summer will require 2-3 kg meal/day with poor quality silage. Derivatives winterer 〈诗/文〉年，岁 noun Also, the Shackleton has been here and left this morning with the last of last year's winterers on it. Example sentencesExamples The winterers paddled from the interior to Grand Portage for the rendezvous and back. Two Annas arrived, at the same River Ridge home, after many of the winterers had already departed. The outgoing winterers are leaving their home for the last year and for them it can be very emotional even though most are very anxious to get home. Canoes used by the winterers on narrow, rapid waters were about 25 feet long and carried four to six voyagers. It was very exciting not to be on base but at the same time I was so used to being around a small bunch of winterers that not being with them was very odd. We had more problems in the first two hours of the winter than the previous winterers had all year. winterless 〈诗/文〉年，岁 adjective Coming to you from sunny winterless Queensland. Example sentencesExamples I decided I needed a mid-winter break so what better place to visit than the Bay of Islands in the winterless north? winterly 〈诗/文〉年，岁 adjective If therefore after the pick up of the vehicle winterly conditions set in and you do not have snow tyres, significant additional charges may occur. Example sentencesExamples Guided tour through the winterly forest followed by hotpot meal and mulled wine at the outer pavilion of our hotel You have to beware of many dangers on the winterly roads of Lapland. The proverbial ‘remoteness’ of the winterly polar environment may become a trauma for sensitive persons. Organisers are anticipating with great interest the results of the last exhibition day which was marked by deep winterly weather conditions. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch winter and German Winter, probably also to wet. The word winter is probably related to wet (see water), with the basic idea being ‘the wet season’. Richard III: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York’ gave us The winter of discontent of 1978–79 in Britain, when widespread strikes forced the Labour government out of power. Rhymes Jacinta, midwinter, Minter, Pinta, Pinter, printer, splinter, sprinter, tinter Definition of winter in US English: winter nounˈwin(t)ərˈwɪn(t)ər 1The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August. 冬，冬天，冬季 the tree has a good crop of berries in winter 这树在冬季能产大量的浆果。 as modifier the winter months 冬季月份。 Example sentencesExamples Gourlay has been looking forward to returning home from Sydney, even if he is loathe to swap the sunshine of a southern hemisphere spring for the cold of a Scottish winter. It is characterized by cold winters and relatively long growing seasons, averaging 60 frost-free days per year. The frugal vacationer travels in between the summer months and the cold winter. The coldest peaks of winter usually occur in August and September, so many fear a heightened emergency. At the moment the Earth's closest approach to the Sun occurs in January, when the North Pole is pointing away from the Sun, resulting in slightly colder northern hemisphere winters. The opera begins a winter / spring season that includes ballet, comedy, classical music, children's shows and several bands. Therefore, short, cool growing seasons and cold winters are often thought of as barriers to crop growth and diversification in the Subarctic. If you are looking for some respite from the cold winter months there is an abundance of destinations to suit all budgets. The weed, which turns its distinctive red shade during the cold winter months, is not dangerous in itself. I'd buy a house in Gran Canaria to spend the cold winter months. We're looking at some idea that it might be a colder than normal winter in the Northeast and Midwest. But after a cold winter in the southern uplands you may recognise that ending up on a human dinner plate is not so bad. Flights are suspended to Antarctica around the end of February each year when the Southern Hemisphere winter makes it too cold to fly. The temperate regions of southern Australia have four seasons, with cool winters and hot summers. A leading local politician has urged pensioners to take advantage of a government initiative to heat their homes during the cold winter months. Through February, the usual winter fishing locations should continue to be your best bet. The season was late winter and periodic night-time frosts were still occurring. In southern Mongolia, the winters have been getting colder and the summers hotter, with barely a springtime buffer zone. The climate here is normally split into two seasons, long cold winters and long hot summers. During the long, cold winters in northeast China they skate on rivers and lakes or in skating rinks. 1.1Astronomy The period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox. 〔天文〕从冬至点到春分点的期间 Example sentencesExamples Saturnalia celebrated the rebirth of Saturn, the god of the harvest, and the dawn of the new year from the winter's darkness. Because the Chinese calendar is lunar based, the Chinese new year begins on the 2nd new moon of winter, usually sometime in February. Similarly the winters in the north are shorter and milder than they would be otherwise. It would put Britain one hour ahead of GMT in the winter and two hours ahead in the summer, giving lighter evenings throughout the year. Spirit and Opportunity have also roved through the worst of the Martian winter with flying colors, and spring is on the horizon. 1.2wintersliterary Years. he seemed a hundred winters old 他好像有百岁高龄了。 Example sentencesExamples He spent two winters in what is now called Gjoa Haven. But before she ended her career she spent two winters, from 1965 to 1967, chartered to operate between Los Angeles and Acapulco for Princess Cruises. Several winters ago, I spent a morning in a makeshift ground blind on a rocky hillside near Laredo. Upon retirement, Hugh and Florence spent 18 wonderful winters in Quartzite, Arizona with many very valued friends. Find those things and nourish them through the summers and winters of this lifetime. Hoggard has spent the last two winters playing as overseas professional with Free State in South Africa which is Donald's club and the great man has coached and helped him along. Newman's innings was the first time this summer he had managed to convert a solid start into a significant score and showed many of the skills that earned him Academy recognition two winters ago. Between 1971 and 1998 she became a much traveled lady and spent 17 winters in Hong Kong with her son Mick who was employed there. After university, where I did consumer and management studies, I spent a few winters in Australia coaching and playing cricket semi - professionally. A striker who spent two winters at Highfield Road and enjoyed his best period alongside Macdonald at Newcastle. adjectiveˈwin(t)ərˈwɪn(t)ər 1attributive (of fruit and vegetables) ripening late in the growing season and suitable for storage over the winter. a winter apple 冬季成熟的苹果。 Example sentencesExamples Classic Bordelaise fruit gives way to a dense texture of winter forest fruits with an elegant, muscular finish. Sadly, the accompanying winter fruits were still partially frozen. The others went for the escallops of pork served on a bed of butternut squash purée with wild mushroom brandy sauce and a winter fruit chutney. Herbaceous, winter fruit aromas, complex violet and ripe berry fruits with hints of spice and dried orange peel. No purist, he happily uses olive oil in a Thai-style curry paste, chops cress on to avocados and serves pomegranate, a winter fruit, at a summer party. Several lines of evidence suggest winter fruit may be important to less frugivorous species as well. 1.1 (of wheat or other crops) sown in autumn for harvesting the following year. （麦等）秋季播种来年收获的，越冬的 Example sentencesExamples In the Black Earth region wheat was the predominant winter crop, with rye elsewhere. The fourth data set comes from the growth of a field winter wheat crop. The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch. They introduced wheat as a winter crop alongside maize. Production of winter wheat, harvested in July, was down by up to 50 percent. In Kansas, I see that some of the winter wheat has been harvested. To make a good return from markets, you need to have spring, summer, autumn and winter crops. Varieties of winter wheat used for grain may also be used for forage. In this situation, we plant the hay seed into a nurse crop of winter wheat or spring oats. As many as two-thirds of the shoots produced in a winter wheat crop may fail to survive to form ears and yield grain. The very warm and dry conditions had seen half of lowland winter barley crops harvested with winter oilseed rape not far behind. Already, India has reported a 10 percent drop in its winter rice harvest. The Paull land has just yielded its last harvest of winter wheat and barley. The growing cycle of the new oilseeds allows them to be planted after harvest on land used for winter wheat, making two crops a year from the same acreage. The study is researching the practice of planting soybeans into cover crops of winter rye. The greatest risk is in fields where a winter cereal cover crop has been used. The Russian wheat aphid is a major pest of winter wheat and barley in the United States and worldwide. Soft red winter wheat and corn used were produced on farms in southeast Virginia and obtained from a local grain dealer. Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been. The war is already interfering with the harvesting of winter crops and the planting of spring ones. verbˈwin(t)ərˈwɪn(t)ər 1no object, with adverbial of place (especially of a bird) spend the winter in a particular place. （尤指鸟）在某处过冬，越冬 birds wintering in the Caribbean 在英吉利海峡过冬的鸟。 Example sentencesExamples Cold weather, a lack of food or disturbance can however cause wintering birds to seek new sites. These routes used by migratory birds for passage between wintering and breeding ranges are called flyways. A car provides an excellent mobile observatory for tracking down and observing contingents of pink-footed geese wintering in north-west Norfolk. The Harris's Sparrow is a rare but regular wintering bird in Washington. In wintering birds, conflicts over food are often resolved by threat displays. These birds bred mainly in west Siberia, and wintered as far south as South Africa. Like many of the Arctic refuge's birds, snow geese winter in warmer parts of the lower 48 states. Migration is an intrinsic behavior of birds that winter in one location and breed in another. American Pipits are present in Washington as breeders, migrants, and wintering birds. Only one bird - the emperor penguin - will winter on Antarctica and use the frozen continent as a nursery. Although there is a growing literature on wintering strategies in birds, most of the hormone mechanisms remain entirely unknown. The entire breeding population of sedge warblers winters in Africa south of the Sahara. The birds wintering in Washington breed in the northern Great Plains, usually beginning by late April. Eleven species of migratory warblers wintered in Britain last year. The pink-footed geese wintering in Britain breed in Iceland and East Greenland. Most years, shorelarks wintering locally linger here until the end of April, with stragglers to the second week in May. Warblers wintering in Britain can claim the best breeding sites. Some continental birds wintering here arrived in Scotland direct from Scandinavia; others enter East Anglia through Holland and Belgium. For birds wintering at that northerly location, spring migrations may be less arduous, leading to increased survival and breeding success. Feeding and squatting in the sun and all indifferent to passing trains, bean geese have wintered in this favoured area of the Yare valley many years. 1.1with object Keep or feed (plants or cattle) during winter. 冬季护养（植物）；冬季饲养（牲口）；使度过冬季 Example sentencesExamples Store cattle being wintered with a view to finishing off grass next summer will require 2-3 kg meal/day with poor quality silage. Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted. Neighbouring regions pitied the inhabitants of the Burren, who had to winter their cattle on the mountain slopes to earn a decent living. His cows (he milks 35 Dutch belted, Jerseys, and milking shorthorns) are wintered outdoors on 265 acres of highly erodible land and prior converted wetlands. During this season, the herders of animals would kill off all the livestock that was not to be wintered over. A natural extension to this was a scheme to move animals to the feed rather than the feed to the animals, with both cattle and sheep being wintered away from their own upland holding to the lowlands of the Vale of York. There are no slatted sheds allowed in Scotland so wintering cattle can be pretty labour intensive. In the same village, 70-year-old Samba Tutu winters her grain in the middle of the main road. Heiser doesn't use a backhoe to muck out the corral where he winters his yearlings; he uses a wheelbarrow. The cows are wintered at home on arable by-products and are moved to Fleensop to graze in the spring. We never wintered cattle there because of its remoteness and lack of shelter. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch winter and German Winter, probably also to wet.
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