air-sleeve

Questions about air-sleeve

What does air-sleeve mean?

air-sleeve means "a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind".

How many syllables are in air-sleeve?

air-sleeve has 2 syllables: air--sleeve. The stress falls on "air-".

What is another word for air-sleeve?

Close synonyms include windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, wind sleeve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air-sleeve a common word?

air-sleeve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.