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 and divides as air--sleeve under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.