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- [tawr-ney-doh]
- /tɔrˈneɪ doʊ/
- /tɔːˈneɪ.dəʊ/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [tawr-ney-doh]
- /tɔrˈneɪ doʊ/
Definitions of tornado word
- noun plural tornado a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3). 1
- noun plural tornado a violent squall or whirlwind of small extent, as one of those occurring during the summer on the west coast of Africa. 1
- noun plural tornado a violent outburst, as of emotion or activity. 1
- noun plural tornado (initial capital letter) Military. a supersonic, two-seat, multipurpose military aircraft produced jointly by West Germany, Britain, and Italy and capable of flying in darkness and bad weather. 1
- noun tornado weather: whirlwind 1
- noun Definition of tornado in Technology (programming) The software development environment previously distributed with VxWorks. 1
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Origin of tornado
First appearance:
before 1550 One of the 31% oldest English words
1550-60; apparently by metathesis < Spanish tronada thunderstorm, noun use of feminine of tronado, past participle of tronar < Latin tonāre to thunder; replacing 16th-century ternado, with unexplained e
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Parts of speech for Tornado
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tornado popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
tornado usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tornado
noun tornado
- act of god — An act of God is an event that is beyond human control, especially one in which something is damaged or someone is hurt.
- chinook — a warm dry southwesterly wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
- gale — Zona [zoh-nuh] /ˈzoʊ nə/ (Show IPA), 1874–1938, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- line storm — equinoctial storm.
adj tornado
- cyclonic — of or relating to a cyclone.
adjective tornado
- whirlwind — any of several relatively small masses of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and advancing simultaneously over land or sea, as a dust devil, tornado, or waterspout.
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