hurricane
(noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Hurricane
A locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Australia.
An unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.
An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
An unincorporated community in Crooked Creek Township, Bollinger County, Missouri, United States.
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
An unincorporated community in Madison County, North Carolina, United States.
A city in Washington County, Utah, United States.
A city in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States.
An unincorporated community in the town of Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.
Hurricane (plural Hurricanes)
(historical) A British fighter aircraft used during World War II, especially during the Battle of Britain.
• raunchier
hurricane (plural hurricanes)
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.
(meteorology) A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm
• (type of a cyclone): cyclone, tropical storm, typhoon
• (meteorology): breeze, gale, storm
hurricane (plural hurricanes)
(sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "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
• raunchier
Source: Wiktionary
Hur"ri*cane, n. Etym: [Sp. hurracan; orig. a Carib word signifying, a high wind.]
Definition: A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane whirl'd. Tennyson. Each guilty thought to me is A dreadful hurricane. Massinger. Hurricane bird (Zoöl.), the frigate bird.
– Hurricane deck. (Naut.) See under Deck.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
