weatherstrip

1. 1.

   a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold

   Synonymsweather stripweather strippingweatherstripping

   Broaderstrip

1. 1.

   provide with weatherstripping

   “The window must be weatherstripped before the cold weather sets in”

   Broaderinsulate

Other forms of weatherstrip

plural

weatherstrips·

past tense or participle

weatherstripped

present participle

weatherstripping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about weatherstrip

What does weatherstrip mean?

weatherstrip means "a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weatherstrip?

weatherstrip has 4 syllables: we-a-ther-strip. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for weatherstrip?

Close synonyms include weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstripping. 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 weatherstrip a common word?

weatherstrip is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.