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Definition: Dust Storm |
Dust StormNoun1. A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Dust StormSynonyms: sandstorm (n), sirocco (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dust storms on Mars last longer, and cover larger areas, than on Earth: some of these storms cover the entire planet and last for hundreds of days.
Dust storms can often be observed from satellite photos and can often be viewed on the Internet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dust storm."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke, volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A dust storm kicks up on Mars. Credit: NASA. |  | Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas Dust bowl surveying in Texas. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Dust Storm. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Farmer and son walk to a potato cellar during a dust storm. Credit: Arthur Rothstein. |
 | After a dust storm. Williston, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dust storm approaching Lubbock, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dust storm damage. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Beginning of dust storm in northern Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View SW over Manzanar, dust storm, Manzanar Relocation Center / by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dust storm | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "dust storm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stuhi pluhuri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عاصفة رملية (sand storm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пясъчна буря (duster, sandstorm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bouřka (squall, storm, thunderstorm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hiekkamyrsky (duster, duststorm, sandstorm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tempête de poussières, tempête de poussière (duster, duststorm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סופת חול (sandstorm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | porfelleg, porfelhõ (pother, smoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '風白雨 (sudden rain shower in a dust storm), '風 (sky darkening dust storm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "くふうはくう (sudden rain shower in a dust storm), "くふう (national customs and manners, provincial song or ballad, sky darkening dust storm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustday ormstay пыльная буря (dust-storm). (various references) vrtlog od prašine. (various references) tormenta de tierra. (various references) stoftstorm. (various references) tozkoparan fırtına. (various references) sowurmak (have a dust storm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Dust Storm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duststorm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-m-o-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: strouds, utmosts. | |
-3 letters: dorsum, rousts, storms, stours, stouts, stroud, strums, struts, sturts, sudors, trouts, trusts, tumors, tussor, tutors, utmost. | |
-4 letters: dorms, doums, dross, drums, duros, durst, dusts, modus, morts, mosts, motts, musts, mutts, ousts, roust, routs, rusts, smuts, sords, sorts, sorus, sours, storm, stour, stout, strum, strut, studs, stums, sturt, sudor, sumos, surds. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-m-o-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+4 letters: deuterostomes, thunderstorms. | |
+5 letters: documentarists. | |
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