windshield

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The result is the musical equivalent of watching windshield wipers that are slightly out of sync.

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Quick take

A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of windshield gathered in one view.

noun

A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.

noun

(military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

verb

(transitive) To install a windshield on.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for windshield.

noun

A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.

noun

(military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

verb

(transitive) To install a windshield on.

noun

(Canada, US, Philippines) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.

Example sentences

The result is the musical equivalent of watching windshield wipers that are slightly out of sync.

They're noisy, uncomfortable, the heater is a joke, windshield defroster never works, and dangerous.

It often goes something vaguely like this: If you can add gas you can add windshield wash...

Here's what a particle of similar size did to the space shuttle windshield, traveling at half the speed of New Horizons.

I think theVirginian was commenting about mosquitoes getting smashed on a car's windshield, not about cars and humans.

Mechanical windshield wipers would probably get clogged and jammed by dust, for instance.

I usually put the car into reverse, turn my head to look out the rear windshield then apply a little gas.

I've never thought of the 911 as having particularly good visibility anyway, but I guess the low hood and upright windshield helps.

Maybe I'm ignorant here, but I picture a hobby drone hitting a DC-10 would be like a bug hitting a car's windshield.

I'm from New England; I usually had to manually clean the snow/salt/mud/ice off my windshield wipers every couple days or so during the winter.

I was awoken at 3 am by my Jeep with its reverse lights on, the horn intermittently beeping, and the headlights and windshield wipers coming on.

I got pulled over doing 70 on a freeway in medium-heavy traffic because a cop noticed the inspection sticker on my windshield was 2 months out of date.

Quote examples

Putting "Windshield Wipers" on the probes to another planet isn't exactly like going down to Auto Zone and picking up a few strips of black silicone.

Not sure about in NY, but in SF, Uber cars tend to have a small (maybe 3"x3"?) but visible sign in a corner of the front windshield.

Most people are shit drivers who are unsafe to be around in the best of times, "minor" things like stereo control, windshield washing, etc are certainly enough to distract them let alone being physically moved out of the reach of the controls.

Sory, not a white man, though he would have been an "honorary white" in apartheid South Africa, " Zvorykin-Muromets" (2010) about the Russian inventor of television, "Flash of Genius" (2008) about the Robert Kearns and his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper, A problem with your list is it's easily interpreted as cherry picking.