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StormStorm Storm, n.
Anticyclonic storm (Meteor.), a storm characterized by a
central area of high atmospheric pressure, and having a
system of winds blowing spirally outward in a direction
contrary to that cyclonic storms. It is attended by low
temperature, dry air, infrequent precipitation, and often
by clear sky. Called also high-area storm,
anticyclone. When attended by high winds, snow, and
freezing temperatures such storms have various local
names, as blizzard, wet norther, purga, buran,
etc.
Cyclonic storm. (Meteor.) A cyclone, or low-area storm. See
Cyclone, above. Stovain Sto"va*in, n. Also -ine -ine
. [Stove (a translation of the name of the discoverer,
Fourneau + -in, -ine.] (Pharm.)
A substance, C14H22O2NCl, the hydrochloride of an amino
compound containing benzol, used, in solution with
strychnine, as a local an[ae]sthetic, esp. by injection into
the sheath of the spinal cord, producing an[ae]sthesia below
the point of introduction. Storm
Storm Storm, v. i. [Cf. AS. styrman.]
1. To raise a tempest. --Spenser.
2. To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the
like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; --
used impersonally; as, it storms.
3. To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
The master storms, the lady scolds. --Swift.
StormStorm Storm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stormed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Storming.] (Mil.)
To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls,
forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a
fortified town. StormStorm Storm, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel.
stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow,
to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf.
Stratum). [root]166.]
1. A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind,
rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often,
a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied
with wind or not.
We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no
shelter to avoid the storm. --Shak.
2. A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political,
or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war;
violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
I will stir up in England some black storm. --Shak.
Her sister Began to scold and raise up such a storm.
--Shak.
3. A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous
force; violence.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
--Pope.
4. (Mil.) 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, stormproof,
storm-tossed, and the like.
Magnetic storm. See under Magnetic.
Storm-and-stress period [a translation of G. sturm und
drang periode], a designation given to the literary
agitation and revolutionary development in Germany under
the lead of Goethe and Schiller in the latter part of the
18th century.
Storm center (Meteorol.), the center of the area covered by
a storm, especially by a storm of large extent.
Storm door (Arch.), an extra outside door to prevent the
entrance of wind, cold, rain, etc.; -- usually removed in
summer.
Meaning of Storm from wikipedia
- A
storm is any
disturbed state of an
environment or in an
astronomical body's
atmosphere especially affecting its surface, and
strongly implying severe...
- A
storm is a
severe weather condition.
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Storm may also
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Storm may
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American author Tom
Clancy Into the
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season has
produced 20 named
storms,
tying it with 1933 as the third-most
active Atlantic hurricane season on record. The
storms combined have
caused just...
- In the
Storm is the
third studio album by El
DeBarge released in 1992 on
Warner Bros. Records. The
album got to No. 22 on the
Blues & Soul Top UK Soul...
- The
Carrington Event was a
powerful geomagnetic storm on 1–2 September 1859,
during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A
solar coronal m****
ejection (CME) hit...
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illustrated by the
formation of
Tropical Storm Andres on May 9,
which became the
earliest forming tropical storm in the
northeastern Pacific proper (east...
- time, with 28 tropical or
subtropical storms recorded. The
United States National Hurricane Center named 27
storms,
exhausting the
annual pre-designated...
- The
Stormers (known for
sponsorship reasons as the DHL
Stormers) is a
South African professional rugby union team
based in Cape Town in the
Western Cape...
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cyclones typically develop between May and October. The season's
first named storm, Dujuan,
developed on
February 16. The season's
first typhoon, Surigae,...
