Word Meanings - CYCLONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. Note: The atmospheric disturbance usually

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A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. Note: The atmospheric disturbance usually accompanying a cyclone, marked by an onward moving area of high pressure, is called an anticyclone.

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• ROTATOR
  that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• MILESIAN
  Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
• ROTATION
  1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• CENTERING
  See 6
• STORM
  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. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• THIRTY
  Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days. (more info) dertig, G. dreissig, Icel. Þrjatiu, Þrjatigi, Þrir teger, Goth. Þreis
• WINDSOR
  A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. See under Bean. -- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds. -- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.
• ONWARDS
  Onward.
• ROTATORY
  Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization. Nichol. (more info) 1. Turning as on an axis; rotary. 2. Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession;
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
  turning, rolling, or whirling round.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• LAEVOROTATORY
  See DEXTROROTATORY
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• AEGROTAT
  A medical certificate that a student is ill.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• LEVOROTATION
  Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.