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Webster 1913 Edition
Tornado
Tor-na′do
,Noun.
pl.
Tornadoes
(#)
. [From Sp. or Pg.
tornar
to turn, return, L. tornare
to turn, hence, a whirling wind. The Sp. & Pg. tornada
is a return. See Turn
.] A violent whirling wind; specifically
(Meteorol.)
, a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone. Webster 1828 Edition
Tornado
TORNA'DO
,Noun.
A violent gust of wind, or a tempest, distinguished by a whirling motion. tornadoes of this kind happen after extreme heat, and sometimes in the United States, rend up fences and trees, and in a few instances have overthrown houses and torn them to pieces. Tornadoes are usually accompanied with severe thunder, lightning and torrents of rain; but they are of short duration, and narrow in breadth.
Definition 2024
Tornado
tornado
tornado
English
Noun
tornado (plural tornados or tornadoes)
A tornado in Oklahoma
- (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
- 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 114:
- An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
- A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.
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Synonyms
Derived terms
- tornado watch, tornado warning (A tornado watch means that conditions are favorable for producing a tornado. A tornado warning means that a tornado has been sighted in the area or has been detected on radar.)
- tornado shelter
Translations
column of air
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See also
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)
Inflection
Inflection of tornado
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tornado | tornadoen | tornadoer | tornadoerne |
| genitive | tornados | tornadoens | tornadoers | tornadoernes |
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /torˈnado/
- Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do
Noun
tornado (accusative singular tornadon, plural tornadoj, accusative plural tornadojn)
Finnish
Noun
tornado
Declension
| Inflection of tornado (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tornado | tornadot | |
| genitive | tornadon | tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten |
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| partitive | tornadoa | tornadoja tornadoita |
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| illative | tornadoon | tornadoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tornado | tornadot | |
| accusative | nom. | tornado | tornadot |
| gen. | tornadon | ||
| genitive | tornadon | tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten |
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| partitive | tornadoa | tornadoja tornadoita |
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| inessive | tornadossa | tornadoissa | |
| elative | tornadosta | tornadoista | |
| illative | tornadoon | tornadoihin | |
| adessive | tornadolla | tornadoilla | |
| ablative | tornadolta | tornadoilta | |
| allative | tornadolle | tornadoille | |
| essive | tornadona | tornadoina | |
| translative | tornadoksi | tornadoiksi | |
| instructive | — | tornadoin | |
| abessive | tornadotta | tornadoitta | |
| comitative | — | tornadoineen | |
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Spanish tronada, via English tornado
Noun
tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoer, definite plural tornadoene)
- (meteorology) a tornado
References
- “tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Spanish tronada, via English tornado
Noun
tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoar, definite plural tornadoane)
- (meteorology) a tornado
References
- “tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Verb
tornado m (feminine singular tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas, infinitive tornar)
- Masculine singular past participle of tornar
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tǒrnaːdo/
- Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do
Noun
tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)
Declension
Declension of tornado
References
- “tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [to̞ɾˈna̠.ð̞o̞], [to̞ɾˈna̠.do̞]
Etymology
From English tornado, and this in turn from Spanish tronada (see English etymology for details).
Noun
tornado m (plural tornados)
See also
- anticiclón m
- huracán m
- ciclón m
- tifón m
- torbellino m
- remolino m
Verb
tornado m (feminine singular tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)
- past participle of tornar