Whirlwind
['wɜːlwɪnd] or ['wɝlwɪnd]
Definition
(noun.) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth.
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Definition
(n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
(n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in the path of a whirlwind, foretells that you are confronting a change which threatens to overwhelm you with loss and calamity. For a young woman to dream that she is caught in a whirlwind and has trouble to keep her skirts from blowing up and entangling her waist, denotes that she will carry on a secret flirtation and will be horrified to find that scandal has gotten possession of her name and she will run a close risk of disgrace and ostracism.
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Examples
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Whenever I have seen you lately, you have been carried away by a whirlwind of some other person's making. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Reaping the Whirlwind With a precursory sound of hurried breath and hurried feet, Mr Pancks rushed into Arthur Clennam's Counting-house. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I will endeavour to explain my conceptions of this matter by figures, representing a plan and an elevation of a spout or whirlwind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You agree that the wind blows every way towards a whirlwind from a large space round. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The terrible whirlwind which damaged a great part of Rome, June 11, 1749, happened in the night of that day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In figure 1, which is a plan or groundplat of a whirlwind, the circle V represents the central vacuum. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thus, for different reasons, what was to the rest an exhilarating movement was to these two a riding upon the whirlwind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The whirlwind at Warrington continued long in Acrement Close. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When the air descends with a violence in some places, it may rise with equal violence in others, and form both kinds of whirlwinds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He observes on a number of histories of whirlwinds, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- So that in this particular, likewise, whirlwinds and water-spouts agree. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was a temperance song (whirlwinds of cheers). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Whirlwinds and spouts are not always, though most commonly, in the daytime. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thus these eddies may be whirlwinds at land, water-spouts at sea. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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