Meaning of hurricane | Babel Free

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1. A severe tropical cyclone; an intense storm rotating around a central eye.
2. A locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.
3. "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
4. A British fighter aircraft used during World War II, especially during the Battle of Britain.
   historical
5. A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
6. A severe, rotating tropical storm with heavy rains and cyclonic winds exceeding 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour. Hurricanes originate in the tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean or the Caribbean Sea and move generally northward. They lose force when they move over land or colder ocean waters. See Note at cyclone.
7. A number of places in the United States:
8. An unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama.
9. a extremely strong wind, usually accompanied by foul weather, more than 65 knots on the Beaufort scale.
10. A great forceful onrush.
    figuratively
11. An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
12. A severe tropical storm rated 12 on the Beaufort scale.
13. A sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice (or sometimes other fruit juice), and either passion fruit syrup or fassionola.
14. An unincorporated community in Crooked Creek Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
15. a violent storm with winds blowing at over 120 kilometres per hour. orkaan إعْصار ураган furacão uragán der Hurrikan orkan τυφώνας, κυκλώναςhuracán orkaan طوفان hurrikaani ouraganהוריקן प्रभंजन, तूफान orkan hurrikán topan fellibylur; fárviðri uragano, ciclone ハリケーン 허리케인 uraganas orkāns; viesuļvētra hurikan orkaanorkanhuragan طوفان furacão uragan ураган uragán orkan uragan orkan พายุเฮอริเคน kasırga 颶風 ураган بارش کا طوفان اور جھکّڑ bão 飓风
16. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
17. A severe tropical cyclone having winds greater than 64 knots (74 miles per hour; 119 kilometers per hour), originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains.
18. An unincorporated community in Madison County, North Carolina.
19. A wind with a speed greater than 64 knots (74 miles per hour; 119 kilometers per hour per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.
20. A city in Washington County, Utah.
21. Something resembling a hurricane in force or speed.
22. A city in Putnam County, West Virginia.
23. (Physical Geography) a severe, often destructive storm, esp a tropical cyclone
24. An unincorporated community in Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin.
25. (Physical Geography) a. a wind of force 12 or above on the Beaufort scale
26. anything acting like such a wind

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“THE HURRICANE OF AUGUST 1831. Calamitous as were the many eruptions of nature by which this island [Barbados] had suffered, the aggregate destruction produced by them was probably unequal to that effected by the storm of August 1831. That of 1675, according to the description given in history, very much resembled it in appearance, duration, and fury; but the extent to which human life was sacrificed is not on record. Although many persons then perished, it is reasonable to suppose that the numbers bore no proportion to those whose loss this mourning island now deplores. The hurricane of 1780, fearfully tremendous as it was, is admitted by all living witnesses to have been far much inferior in force, and less destructive to the country ; but its protracted continuance served to effect the damage then occasioned. […] Captain Charles Cooper, of the mail-boat schooner Friends, on his arrival from Trinidad, Grenada, and St. Vincent's, reported, that on the 23rd of June he had experienced a tremendous gale five leagues to the southward of Grenada. It continued without intermission for five hours, during the whole of which time the vessel was hove nearly on her beam ends. Captain J.MᶜGregor, of His Majesty's 1st or Royal Regiment, and other passengers were on board, and every one, as well as the master and crew, expected to have been entombed by the foaming ocean. At Grenada the gale was described as more severe than any that had been experienced since the hurricane of 1780. At an early hour in the morning "the sea became considerably agitated, and sent forth a noise, which, contrasted with the stillness of the atmosphere, inspired a strange and unaccountable feeling." The morning dawned with a heavy and perturbed sky, but it was not until near noon that the hurricane commenced. Between 3 and 4 in the afternoon the tempest had attained its height, after which it gradually moderated. The damage inflicted on the country was severely felt, but with one exception there was no loss of life.”

“Without going over the ground so well occupied by those able writers on the subject of storms — Redfield, Reid, Piddington, and Thom—it will be quite sufficient for our present purpose simply to notice the essential phænomena of revolving storms as manifested by the barometer and vane. The usual indications of a storm in connexion with these instruments are the falling of the barometer and the freshening of the wind, and it is generally considered that a rapid fall of the mercury in the hurricane regions invariably precedes the setting in of a storm. There are three classes of phænomena that present themselves to an observer, according as he is situated on the line or axis of translation, or in either the right or left hand semicircle of the storm. These will be rendered very apparent by a little attention to the annexed engraving, fig. 1. In this figure the arrow-head is supposed to be directed true north, and the hurricane—as is the case in the American storms north of the 30th parallel—to be moving towards the N.E. on the line N.E.–S.W. If the ship take the hurricane with the wind S.E.,— the letters within the two larger circles indicating the direction of the wind in the storm according to the rotation as shown by the circle of arrow-heads […]”

“Near-synonyms: typhoon, cyclone”

“Janice was a tropical depression 10 days ago, a tropical storm 5 days ago, and a hurricane yesterday and today.”

“An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.”

“[A]fter all thoſe Hurricans of Fury and Violence are novv blovvn over, vve enjoy a ſerene Air, and the happy quiet vvhich vve had ſo much long'd for.”

“A movement of women who wanted to win greater rights had to be able to move forward against a hurricane of lesbian-baiting from the political establishment of the Cold War capitalists.”

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