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Meanings of waterspout in English
Weather phenomenon characterized by an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water.
Synonyms
Examples for "torrent"
Examples for "torrent"
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Wordplay update: And thanks for the torrent of suggested fun-sounding negative words.
2
The bed of the torrent served him for the first few miles.
3
His words, however, were drowned in a torrent of bravos and catcalls.
4
The water is a roaring torrent in the bottom of the gully.
5
Joe: Resolute will almost certainly be available on torrent-tracking sites like Mininova.
1
The deluge of information is expected to increase efficiency and lower prices.
2
The program has struggled under a deluge of thousands of unprocessed cases.
3
Blistering heat can turn to a freezing deluge in minutes, Sillerud said.
4
The number of malware attacks on point-of-sale systems is becoming a deluge.
5
We ignored a deluge of irrepressible questions I could not answer now.
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Mr Goff said the water system was coping despite the latest downpour.
2
However, at least some of the downpour went where it was needed.
3
They sat in awkward silence, listening to the downpour and the wind.
4
A brief downpour of rain drenched the place and left her untouched.
5
An hour ago we had thunder and lightning, and a torrential downpour.
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Will you stand there and pelter with me, man?
2
Peering up through the skylight, she could see the raindrops that had started to pelter the glass.
3
Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
4
Turn left, following the riverside path through woodland to reach Pelter Bridge.
5
It halted near the railroad, and Jesse Pelter sprang to the ground.
1
Once black clouds gathered in the distance, to pour out a cloudburst.
2
Torrential rains were poured upon the hills from a cloudburst exceptionally savage.
3
It was a cloudburst- adownpoursuch as Hiram had seldom experienced before.
4
The whole land seemed to have become saturated and overflowed by the cloudburst.
5
Whitney's cloudburst of gentle sobs echoed in the room behind me.
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I'd like ter t'ump him a soaker on de jaw meself.
2
We just need a soaker to really help things out.
3
A nice steady soaker that chased everyone off the beach.
4
For a large garden, you may need elaborate soaker hoses, sprinklers, and drip irrigation pipes.
5
The sun's a good pimple, an honest soaker, he has a cellar at your Antipodes.
Usage of waterspout in English
1
The ship was lowered about a hundred feet away from the waterspout.
2
By this flood, we may judge of the waterspout's power of suction.
3
He's just been wrastlin' with a waterspout and he's some wore out.
4
A spectacular waterspout swept across a Belgian beach causing damage along the shore.
5
The rain fell like a waterspout, and the throng immediately fled for shelter.
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Soon the heavens were opened, and the floods came down like a waterspout.
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A waterspout has been spotted off the north coast of Cornwall.
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A waterspout even formed off the coast, near Taree, last night.
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They looked like a black waterspout as they came in off the lake.
10
A waterspout spiralling above the sea in Suffolk provided a stunning sight on Saturday.
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The pack sucked in with the rush of a waterspout.
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As it reaches the water, a waterspout forms which is approximately 100 meters high.
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A brief turmoil follows as if there were the bursting of some vast waterspout.
14
She dropped her wool and sat on the waterspout, and tried to understand things.
15
A waterspout, an immense liquid column, was beating upon the surface of the waters.
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The waterspout, traveling with the speed of an express train, bore down upon me.
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Translations for waterspout
Russian
Waterspout through the time
Waterspout across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common