The word "atmosphere" is known to everyone since school times. But what exactly does it mean and how to apply it correctly in speech? The designation of this word is present in many well-known dictionaries. Let's consider them in more detail. In addition to the well-known explanatory dictionary, there are their following types: phraseological, astronomical, encyclopedic, etc. In each of them there is a given word.
Dictionary
The most popular for recognizing the notation of various words, of course, is the explanatory dictionary. The word "atmosphere" in the explanatory dictionary stands for air or gas shell around the surface of the Earth and some other nearby planets. This designation of the word in its literal sense. But it also has a figurative meaning. In this case, this term will mean a tense situation, a moral situation at a particular moment.
Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl in the description of the meaning of the word “atmosphere” included not only the shell of the earth’s surface, but also the clouds and all the earth’s fumes.
Phraseological and Encyclopedic Dictionaries
The phraseological dictionary provides notation for words and terms used for simple speech. Here the figurative meaning of the word “atmosphere” is used, giving a designation of a tense situation, a difficult oppressive situation or, on the contrary, a fun event, holiday. For example: “There was a tense atmosphere around” or “There was a festive atmosphere in the apartment.”
In the encyclopedic dictionary, the atmosphere is a unit for measuring the pressure of air, water or gas. This meaning of the word is widely used in a science such as physics.
