Storm

[stɔːm] or [stɔrm]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold.

(noun.) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning.

(noun.) a violent commotion or disturbance; 'the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away'; 'it was only a tempest in a teapot'.

(verb.) attack by storm; attack suddenly.

(verb.) take by force; 'Storm the fort'.

(verb.) blow hard; 'It was storming all night'.

(verb.) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; 'If it storms, we'll need shelter'.

格雷戈里錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.

(n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

(n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

(n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.

(v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

(v. i.) To raise a tempest.

(v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.

(v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

海丝特編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Tempest, gale, SQUALL, hurricane, TORNADO, violent wind (usually accompanied with rain, hail, or snow).[2]. Disturbance, agitation, commotion, tumult, turmoil, clamor, sedition, insurrection, outbreak.[3]. Calamity, adversity, distress.[4]. Attack, assault, onslaught, onset, first brunt.

v. a. Attack (with violence, as a fortification), assault.

v. n. [1]. Blow violently (with or without rain, hail, or snow).[2]. Rage, fume.

巴罗錄入

解釋/意思:

n. a violent commotion of the atmosphere producing wind rain &c.: a tempest: a fall of snow a prolonged frost: an outbreak of anger or the like: violent agitation of society: commotion: tumult: calamity: (mil.) an assault.—v.i. to raise a tempest: to blow with violence: to be in a violent passion.—v.t. to attack by open force: to assault.—n. Storm′-ā′rea the area covered by a storm.—adjs. Storm′-beat -beat′en beaten or injured by storms.—ns. Storm′-belt a belt of maximum storm frequency; Storm′-bird a petrel.—adj. Storm′bound delayed by storms.—ns. Storm′-card a sailors' chart showing from the direction of the wind the ship's position in relation to a storm-centre and accordingly the proper course to be shaped; Storm′-cen′tre the position of lowest pressure in a cyclonic storm; Storm′-cock the fieldfare: the mistle-thrush; Storm′-cone a cone of canvas stretched on a frame 3 feet high as a storm-signal; Storm′-door an outer supplementary door to shelter the interior of a building; Storm′-drum a canvas cylinder extended on a hoop 3 feet high by 3 feet wide hoisted in conjunction with the cone as a storm-signal.—adj. Storm′ful abounding with storms.—ns. Storm′fulness; Storm′-glass a tube containing a solution of camphor the amount of the precipitate varying with the weather; Storm′-house a temporary shelter for men working on a railway &c.; Storm′iness; Storm′ing-par′ty the party of men who first enter the breach or scale the walls in storming a fortress.—adj. Storm′less without storms.—ns. Storm′-sail a sail of the strongest canvas for stormy weather; Storm′-sig′nal a signal displayed on seacoasts &c. to intimate the approach of a storm by the cone and drum or by flags and lanterns in the United States; Storm′-stay a stay on which a storm-sail is set.—adjs. Storm′-stayed hindered from proceeding by storms; Storm′-tossed tossed about by storms: much agitated by conflicting passions.—ns. Storm′-wind a wind that brings a storm a hurricane; Storm′-win′dow a window raised above the roof slated above and at the sides.—adj. Storm′y having many storms: agitated with furious winds: boisterous: violent: passionate.

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