Meanings
plural weatherstrips
- USA narrow piece of material used to prevent cold air from entering a building through the edge of a window or a door.
Synonyms: draughtproofing
present singular third person weatherstrips · participle present weatherstripping · participle past weatherstripped · past weatherstripped
- To apply such a strip.
Synonyms: draughtproof
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA narrow piece of material used to prevent cold air from entering a building through the edge of a window or a door.
verbTo apply such a strip.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian уплътнител за врата/прозорец
- уплътнител за врата/прозорец (uplătnitel za vrata/prozorec)material used to prevent cold air from entering
Estonian tihtimine, tihtimisriba
- tihtiminematerial used to prevent cold air from entering
- tihtimisribamaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
Finnish tiivistenauha, tiiviste
- tiivistenauhamaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- tiivistematerial used to prevent cold air from entering
- tiivistääto apply such a strip
French coupe-brise, coupe-froid
- coupe-brisematerial used to prevent cold air from entering
- coupe-froidmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
German Dichtprofil, Dichtungsprofil
- Dichtprofilmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Dichtungsprofilmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Bürstendichtungmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Bodendichtungmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Dichtbandmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Kedermaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Fugendichtungmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- Fugendichtbandmaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
- dichtento apply such a strip
- abdichtento apply such a strip
Spanish burlete
- burletematerial used to prevent cold air from entering
Swedish fönsterremsa
- fönsterremsamaterial used to prevent cold air from entering
Cite this entry
weatherstrip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weatherstrip
“weatherstrip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weatherstrip. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weatherstrip,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weatherstrip.
Source: weatherstrip on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.