Storm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.

   “The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.”

2. isim A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
3. isim Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
4. isim A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.
5. isim A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
6. isim A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).

   “a storm of bullets”

7. isim A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.

   “The proposed reforms have led to a political storm.”

8. isim A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.

   “a storm of protest”

9. isim Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.

   “asthmatic storm    cytokine storm”

10. isim Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).
11. fiil Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.

    “It stormed throughout the night.”

12. fiil To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.

    “And dovvne I laid to liſt the ſad tun'd tale, / Ere long eſpied a fickle maid full pale / Tearing of papers breaking rings a tvvaine, / Storming her vvorld vvith ſorrovves, vvind and raine.”

13. fiil To disturb or trouble (someone).
14. fiil To use (harsh language).
15. fiil To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.

    “the storming of the Bastille”

16. fiil To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).

    “No Engines can a Tyrant find, / to ſtorm the Truth-ſupported Mind, […]”

17. fiil To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.

    “They were storming near the end of the month to salvage some goodwill.”

18. fiil To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
19. fiil Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.

    “My harueſte haſts to ſtirre vp winter ſterne, / And bids him clayme with rigorous rage hys right. / So nowe he ſtormes with many a ſturdy ſtoure, / So now his bluſtring blaſt eche coſte doth ſcoure.”

20. fiil To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
21. fiil To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.

    “She stormed out of the room.”

22. fiil To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
23. fiil To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.

    “[T]he prieſts of the countrey cluſtering togither, began to grudge and ſtorme againſt Tindall [William Tyndale], rauing againſt him in alehouſes and other places.”

24. isim A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
25. özel isim A unisex given name.
26. özel isim A surname.