Tempest

['tempɪst] or ['tɛmpɪst]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (literary) a violent wind; 'a tempest swept over the island'.

乔治錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

(n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

(n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

(v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.

(v. i.) To storm.

編輯:露西尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Storm, hurricane, gale, squall, tornado, violent wind (usually accompanied with rain, hail, or snow, and sometimes with thunder and lightning).[2]. Excitement, tumult, disturbance, perturbation, violent outbreak.

汉克整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Blast, storm, gale, hurricane, tornado, squall, excitement, commotion, tumult,[See BLAST]

錄入:纳塔莉亚

解釋/意思:

n. wind rushing with great velocity usually with rain or snow: a violent storm: any violent commotion.—adjs. Tem′pest-beat′en; Tem′pest-tost (Shak.) driven about by storms; Tempes′tūous resembling or pertaining to a tempest: very stormy: turbulent.—adv. Tempes′tūously.—n. Tempes′tūousness.—Tempest in a tea-pot a great disturbance over a trivial matter.

編輯:基蒂