cyclone
IPA: sɪkɫˈoʊn
noun
- (broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure.
- (narrow sense) Such a weather phenomenon occurring in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
- A low pressure system.
- (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- A strong wind.
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
verb
- To separate using a cyclone separator.
- To storm as a cyclone.
- To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force.
- To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy.
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Examples of "cyclone" in Sentences
- It is called the eye of the cyclone.
- Cyclones whirl past Brady in final game.
- Twenty of the island's residents drowned in the cyclone.
- Cyclone, a rickety and rough coaster, was built in 1926.
- The anemometer in the city was blown away during the cyclone.
- Interaction between the systems pulled the cyclone to the north.
- Occasionally, cyclogenesis will re occur with occluded cyclones.
- Typhoon Amber was the eighteenth tropical cyclone of the season.
- Another major tropical cyclone, the 1970 Bangladesh cyclone¢’¬?
- The closer to the center of the cyclone, the faster is the wind speed.
- Cyclogenesis describes the process of cyclone formation and intensification.
- The word cyclone is associated in popular phraseology with a terrific storm, but it has no such restriction in technical usage.
- "The response to the cyclone is just the most recent example of the junta's failure to meet its people's basic needs," Mrs. Bush said.
- Doppler radars will help in getting clear information three to four days ahead of the Cyclone if the cyclone is in the radius of 400 km of the doppler radar. posted by 24/7 News Network @ 9: 51 AM
- More worrying than the cyclone are the effects of the recent floods, which sent huge plumes of muddy fresh water over coastal portions of the reef, said Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a reef expert from the University of Queensland.
- Perhaps it may not be a matter of knowledge to all readers that for these hurricanes, as for many other heavy gales, the term cyclone is exact; that the wind does actually blow round a circle, but one of so great circumference that at each several point it seems to follow a straight line.