| 单词 | storm wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstorm wind storm wind n. the wind which accompanies a storm; also figurative; spec. a wind having a speed within certain limits (see quots. and cf. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind birra1325 racka1400 galea1547 Euroclydon1561 huff-gale1582 whiskera1598 gale-wind1628 sniffler1768 snifter1768 storm wind1839 buster1848 snorter1855 snorer1871 blusterer1877 ripsnorter1889 smeller1898 hurricane wind1921 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind > of particular degree of violence storm1801 storm wind1839 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii The storm-wind came from the Alsatian hills. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) ii. iv. 72 Like..a steamer with a storm-wind directly against her and an iron-bound coast behind. 1892 G. F. X. Griffith tr. C. Fouard St. Peter 78 The storm-winds of trial swept over them. 1923 W. N. Shaw Forecasting Weather (ed. 2) 456 As a result of the investigation of 1905 we now classify winds with velocity above 75 miles per hour as hurricane winds, those with velocity between 64 and 75 miles per hour as storm winds, and those between 39 and 63 as gales. 1959 Gloss. Meteorol. (Amer. Meteorol. Soc.) 545 Storm wind, in the Beaufort wind scale, a wind whose speed is from 56 to 63 knots (64 to 72 mph). < as lemmas |
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