Hurricane
['hʌrɪk(ə)n;-keɪn] or ['hɝrəkən]
Definition
(noun.) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale).
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Definition
(n.) A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.
Checker: Paulette
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tornado, violent gale.
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Definition
n. a storm with extreme violence and sudden changes of the wind: a social party a rout—(Shak.) Hur′ricano.—Hurricane deck a cross-deck about amidships a bridge-deck or bridge: the upper light deck of a passenger-steamer.
Typist: Weldon
Unserious Contents or Definition
To hear the roar and see a hurricane heading towards you with its frightful force, you will undergo torture and suspense, striving to avert failure and ruin in your affairs. If you are in a house which is being blown to pieces by a hurricane, and you struggle in the awful gloom to extricate some one from the falling timbers, your life will suffer a change. You will move and remove to distant places, and still find no improvement in domestic or business affairs. If you dream of looking on de'bris and havoc wrought by a hurricane, you will come close to trouble, which will be averted by the turn in the affairs of others. To see dead and wounded caused by a hurricane, you will be much distressed over the troubles of others.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats but generally speaking the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.
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Examples
- No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It has been pouring rain and blowing a hurricane ever since, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Don't tell me we won't, man,' said Mr. Bounderby, by this time blowing a hurricane, 'because we will, I tell you! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The shining Bull's Eye of the Court was gone, or it would have been the mark for a hurricane of national bullets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was no lull in the tempest of war; her long hurricane still swept the Continent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hence the air of gusts and hurricanes is cold, though in hot climates and seasons; it coming from above. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Hence gusts after heats, and hurricanes in hot climates. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He spoke of his friend's dislike of the burning heats, the hurricanes, and rainy seasons of that region. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Well might we like him, with all his passions and hurricanes, when he could be so benignant and docile at times, as he was just now. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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