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Definition: Storm |
StormNoun1. A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening. 2. A violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot". 3. A direct and violent assault on a stronghold. Verb1. Behave violently, as if in a great rage. 2. Take by force; "Storm the fort". 3. Rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; "If it storms, we'll need shelter.". 4. Blow hard; "It was storming all night". 5. Attack by storm; attack suddenly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Storm" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a storm". |
Date "storm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Storm \Storm\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon storm; akin to Dutch storm, German sturm, Icelandic stormr; and perhaps to Greek assault, onset, Sanskrit to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to Latin sternere to strew, prostrate (compare to Stratum).]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To see and hear a storm approaching, foretells continued sickness, unfavorable business, and separation from friends, which will cause added distress. If the storm passes, your affliction will not be so heavy. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A strong wind, sometimes accompanied by rain, snow, or lightning which reaches 48-55 knots. Force 10 on the Beaufort Scale. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | An atmospheric disturbance usually accompanied by heavy rainfall and strong winds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Strong wind with a speed of force 10 on the Beaufort scale. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Extreme weather is weather phenomena indicative of an unstable climate; that is, weather that is at the extremes of historical patterns, especially severe or unseasonal weather.The combination of extreme weather and high population density has led to dramatic weather catastrophes.
2002
- September: On September 19, about one-third of the Maili glacier broke off from the Cacausus Mountains and buried Karmadon, Russia under up to 500 feet of ice and debris, killing 95, including the young Russian movie star Sergei Bodrov Jr
- On the night of September 8 a flash flood struck the Scottish city of Inverness, flooding parts of the city to a depth of 2 metres.
- August: At least 109 are killed by floods caused by torrential rains in Europe, including the Malse, Blanice, and Vltava rivers of the Czech Republic, the Black Sea resort village of Shirokaya Balka near Novorossiisk in Russia (58 deaths), Germany (the Elbe and Pleisse), and Romania. The downpours have also caused extensive damage in Austria (the Rodl and Danube), Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, and Spain. Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla declared a state of emergency in Prague, Bohemia, Plzen and Karlovy Vary. The Elbe reached record heights in Dresden, flooding much of the city. All shipping on the Danube had to be halted. Premier Silvio Berlusconi approved $50 million in emergency aid in response to the $300 million in damage of northern Italy's crops.
- About 2000 people are killed by floods and landslides in Asia during its monsoon season.
2000
- January: floods killed 12 and left thousands homeless in Brazil
- 15 inches of snow fell in Israel, the most in 50 years
- February: the worst avalanches in decades prompted the governor of Alaska to declare a state of emergency
- floods killed 11 and left 20,000 homeless in the Philippines
- a tornado in Georgia kills 22
- a month of floods in Southern Africa, particularly Mozambique, kill 400 and displace 250,000
- October/November: England experiences the country's worst flooding decades after a prolonged period of heavy rain. The historic city of York and the towns of Shrewsbury, Lewes and Uckfield are among the worst hit areas. Up to 10,000 homes and businesses are affected.
1999
- Record drought in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states led to declarations of emergency in 6 states.
- Summer: a prolonged heat wave killed 271 people in the Midwest and Northeast.
- Fall: Hurricane Floyd caused billions of dollars of damages in North Carolina
- November: a super-cyclone in Orissa, India, killed 10,000 people
- December: torrential rains and mudslides in Venezuela killed 15,000 people
- hurricane-force windstorms in Northern Europe caused over $10 billion in damages in France alone
- Boston experienced a record 303 consecutive days without snow, until January 13, 2000
1998
See also global climate change, global warming, extreme value theory, weather related fatalities
- January: an ice storm in northern New England and Quebec left 4 million people without power, some for up to a month
- Spring: fires in Brazil and Mexico rainforests and Florida
- Summer: extreme heat waves in Texas, the Middle East and India, killed more than 4,000 people
- The worst drought in 70 years was followed by extreme floods in September in Mexico
- September: floods left 14 million people homeless in China
- October: floods left 30 million people homeless in Bangladesh
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The Heat is Online: Extreme Weather EventsSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Extreme weather."
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In summer 1995, Croatia carried out a large scale military operation called Oluja -- Storm -- the objective of which was to reclaim areas of Republic of Croatia held by rebel Serb forces. The operation officially lasted four days and effectively eliminated the wartime "Republic of Serbian Krajina".After the final cease-fire of 1992, the Croatian army regrouped and eventually started pursuing successful military advances against the Krajina Serbs. In September 1993 they overran a small area near the village of Medak (the so-called Medak pocket, Medački džep) just southeast of the town of Gospić in the mountainous region of Lika.
Following an agreement with the Croatian government in November 1994, The Pentagon contracted Military Professional Resources, Inc (MPRI) to train the Croatian military. As a product of that cooperation, in May 1995 Croatia started "Operation Flash" in which they reclaimed a larger area in western Slavonia in just a few days.
After the success of "Flash", they undertook a much larger operation "Storm" in which they aimed to take over the central, largest entity composing Krajina, located around the western Bosnian border. They broke cease-fire and attacked the Serb positions in early morning, August 4th. They advanced quickly and took over the capital of Krajina, the town of Knin in Dalmatian hinterland on August 5th.
By August 6th, the 1st Brigade penetrated Krajina territory near Slunj and reached the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they met with Bosniak forces of the enclave of western Bosnia. The only strong resistance was met in the town of Glina (south of Sisak).
On the evening of the 7th of August, the operation was declared over as most of the border with Bosnia was controlled by the Croats. Remaining few divisions of the Serbian army peacefully surrendered over the course of the next several days.
Almost the entire Serb civilian population of the area fled during "Storm". The Croatian courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have both investigated the conduct of Croat army personnel during this and related operations. Several high-ranked officers (such as brigadier general Mirko Norac and colonel general Ante Gotovina) are or have been indicted for war crimes committed by their troops -- in Medak for planned mass murder as part of the operation, and in Flash and Storm for (allowing) murders, pillaging and overall destruction in the aftermath of each operation.
The legitimacy of these operations is a controversial issue that depends on what is perceived as their final goal: Croatian government taking back its occupied territory or complete elimination of the Serb rebels. The issue will continue to plague Croatia until all the war criminals, and particularly those who issued their orders, are brought to justice.
External link
- Dossier "Storm"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Storm."
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A storm is a kind of severe weather marked by hard wind (a wind storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, etc). A storm is usually defined as wind measuring 10 or higher on the Beaufort scale, meaning a wind speed of 89 kilometers per hour (55 miles per hour) or more.List of historical storms --see severe weather, extreme weather.
See also: Wiktionary definition of storm, meteorology.
Operation Storm was a military operation of the Croatian army against the Krajina Serbs in 1995.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Storm."
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Storm is a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Universe. Her real name is Ororo Munroe and she has control over the weather. Her command of the winds enables her to fly.She first appeared in Giant Sized X-men #1, when Professor X recruited her to his new team. When he found her, she was acting as a goddess to an African tribe, but she was born in Manhattan and grew up in Cairo. Her parents, N'Dare and John, were killed in an explosion which also trapped her in the rubble, leaving her with severe claustrophobia.
After learning the thieving arts in Cairo, she traveled inland and adopted the role of goddess. Later, after several years acting as leader of the X-Men after Cyclops' departure, she was transformed into a child and returned to stealing, when she met Gambit. She brought him to the team and was restored to her adult state.
She has gone through many changes in appearance and most recently has lead the team looking for the Books of Truth. On this search, she enjoyed a brief flirtation with Davis Cameron (Slipstream) and was kidnapped by the intergalactic warlord Khan who wanted to make her his queen. Despite being badly injured she was rescued and brought back to Earth to recover.
She was played by Halle Berry in the X-Men movies.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Storm (comics)."
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A thunderstorm is a form of severe weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its attendant thunder. It is often accompanied by copious rainfall.
Thunderstorms form when three conditions are present: sufficient moisture accumulated in the lower atmosphere, a significant fall in air temperature with increasing height, and a force (such as the pressure differential of a cold front) that will push the moisture into the low-temperature upper regions. A given cell of a thunderstorm typically goes through three stages: the cumulus stage, the mature stage, and the dissipation stage.
In the cumulus stage of a thunderstorm cell, masses of moisture are pushed upwards; the moisture rapidly cools into liquid drops of water vapor, which appears as cumulus clouds. The masses of water vapor are warmer than the surrounding air, and therefore will tend to rise in an updraft due to the process of convection. This creates a low-pressure zone beneath the forming thunderstorm. In a typical thunderstorm, some 5E8kg of water vapor are lifted and the amount of energy released when this condenses is about equal to the energy used by a city (US-2002) of 100,000 over a month.
In the mature stage, the accumulated water vapor has become large, with the top layer often spreading out into an anvil formation. The resulting cloud is called cumulonimbus. The water vapor will coalesce into heavy droplets and ice particles, which will fall onto the area below as rain. If temperatures in the upper atmosphere are cold enough, some of these droplets may actually form into masses of ice and fall as hail. While updrafts are still present, the falling rain creates downdrafts as well. The presence of both updrafts and downdrafts during this stage can cause considerable internal turbulence in the storm system, which sometimes manifests as strong winds. severe lightning, and even tornadoes.
Finally, in the dissipation stage, updraft conditions no longer exist, and the storm is characterized largely by weak downdrafts. Because most of the moisture has precipitated out as rain or ice (precipitation) there is no longer sufficient moisture in the lower air to sustain the cycle.
Thunderstorms can be generally classed into three categories, largely in order of increasing severity: single cells, multicellular storms, and supercells. Largely the type of storm depends on the relative wind conditions at different layers of the atmosphere (shear). The single cell thunderstorm is the typical three-stage situation as described above, usually lasting about 30 minutes from the start of significant precipitation.
In a multicellular storm, several of these thunderstorm cells merge into a larger system. The cloud becomes divided into updraft and downdraft regions separated by a gust front. The gust front may extend for several miles ahead of the storm, bringing with it increases in wind speed and atmospheric pressure, decreases in temperature, and shifts in wind direction. The storm itself will have different portions sequentually going through the various thunderstorm stages.
The supercell is the most dangerous form of storm system, as it may produce violent gusts of wind, large hail, and more damaging tornadoes. It is caused when updrafts through the forming cumulonimbus cloud are twisted to proceed along the anvil. It possesses a mesocyclone, the results of which are strong vertical shear, differences in wind speed at different layers and separate updraft and downdraft regions, with the effect being that the storm will both last longer and continue to grow larger and more dangerous.
Geographic features (such as mountain ranges) or atmospheric conditions (such as extended warm or cold fronts) may create lines of thunderstorms which move across the landscape. A special case of this is the squall line, which forms along the warm sector of a cyclone. When conditions are right, several multicell systems may merge into large "thunderstorm convective complexes" stretching for hundreds of miles; in the presence of cyclones or upper-level troughs, even larger clusters of thunderstorms may cover thousands of miles.
See also: hurricane, weather, lightning
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thunderstorm."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STORM | English | Process Modelling and Device Optimisation for Submicron Technologies | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: StormSynonyms: tempest (n), violent storm (n), force (v), rage (v), ramp (v), surprise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly, cahotage; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex; whirlwind; (wind). |
Assemblage | Volley, shower, storm, cloud. |
Attack | Beset, besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls. |
Resentment | Chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain. |
Burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words. | |
Revolution | Jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm. |
Violence | Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire. |
Turmoil; (disorder); ferment; (agitation); storm, tempest, rough weather; squall; (wind); earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm. | |
Wind | Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Storm |
| English words defined with "storm": Anticyclonic storm ♦ electric storm, electrical storm ♦ ice storm ♦ silver storm, storm cellar, storm center, storm centre, storm cloud, Storm path, storm signal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "storm": broadcast storm ♦ critical storm period ♦ Dry-line Storm ♦ Eye of the Storm ♦ geomagnetic storm ♦ HP Storm or HP Supercell ♦ mail storm ♦ Pilot that weathered the Storm, ping storm, Pulse Storm ♦ Splitting Storm, Stiletto of the Storm, Storm in a Teapot, storm sewer, sudden-commencement magnetic storm ♦ Tilted Storm or Tilted Updraft, tropical storm. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "storm": Sackage. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Storm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (storm, tempest), Dutch (storm, tempest), Norwegian (gale, storm, tempest), Swedish (gale, storm, tempest), Welsh (storm). |
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Screenplays | We ents cannot hold back the storm. We must weather such things as we have always done (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) In the future, when you tell your brother off in the dead of winter and storm outside, you might want to bring a coat (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm; three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of - Jesus (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Lois told me to clean the windows, wash the roof, and clean the storm sewer (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) | |
Lyrics | Speak to me and let our words build a shelter from the storm. (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) We were caught up in our storm, I didn't think that we would make it (Above The Clouds; performing artist: Amber) Protect them from the storm (I Made It Through The Rain; performing artist: Barry Manilow) And shelter from the storm (No Matter What; performing artist: Boyzone) For a shield, from the storm (I Turn to You; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) | |
Clever | Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. (references; author: unknown) There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (references; author: unknown) The willow knows what the storm does not: The power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Storm of the Century (1999) Power Rangers Ninja Storm (2003) Eye of the Storm (1992) The Gathering Storm (1974) | |
Song Titles | Riders On The Storm (performing artist: The Doors) Electrical Storm (performing artist: U2) STORM WARNING (performing artist: Volcanos ) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lightning in approaching storm, White's City, New Mexico. Credit: CDC. |  | Tropical Storm Debby Weakens in the Atlantic. Credit: NASA. |
 | Denmark Taken by Storm. Credit: NASA. |  | An Ancient Storm in the Jovian Atmosphere. Credit: NASA. |
 | Electrical Storm. Credit: NASA. |  | The anticipated celestial bombardment called the Leonid meteor storm on the afternoon of ... Credit: NASA. |
 | This Hubble telescope picture of Saturn captures a rare storm that appears as a white ... Credit: NASA. |  | A dust storm kicks up on Mars. Credit: NASA. |
 | Hubble Space Telescope image of a storm on Saturn. Credit: NASA. |  | A 90-foot tower wrecked by a storm Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Storm" by Echo Mirage Commentary: "I took this picture just after a storm, the lighting was really weird. the picture hasn't been edited in any way." | "Storm" by Ben Pritchard Commentary: "A picture of a young border collie." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Thunder of a storm. | | Wind storm. |
| Foreboding cinematic sound effect signified by clock chiming and storm brewing. | ||
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(Frederick II) Frederick The Great | I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king. |
Aesop | The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. |
Author Unknown | No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm. |
Charles Caleb Colton | The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. |
Horace | Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. |
Joseph Addison | Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | He used to raise a storm in a teapot. |
Oscar Wilde | Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. |
Thomas Fuller | Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil, warm, and brilliant after a storm, been more attractive to her. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | They had vanished with the storm, and there was nothing for it but to make the best of my way home |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is the fleeting vanity of the streamlet swelled by the storm. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The Western States, nervous as horses before a thunder storm. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | We had one violent storm and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the tradewind, which holds for above sixty leagues |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface |
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Business | The forecasted decline is due to several factors, including the large level of investments made over the past six years following the slump of the early 1990s, the programmed decrease of grain prices, and the consequences of the major storm of December 1999. However, given the flexibility of production tools and equipment, the French market remains poised for a possible rebound in demand. (references) | |
Although plagued by the second recession in four years, the Argentine banking system has weathered the storm very well. The main explanation for this strength was the response by the government to the financial crisis caused by the spillover effects of the Mexican devaluation of December 1994. Bank liquidity requirements were reinforced and supervision of the system was stepped up in order to ensure solvency. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ireland | The most threatening storm cloud is inflation. (references) |
Honduras | Subsequently, the U.S. provided $265,000 in disaster assistance after Tropical Storm Michelle inundated the North Coast with floods. (references) | |
Cyprus | Cyprus' 1990 application for full EU membership caused a storm in the Turkish Cypriot community, which argued that the move required their consent. (references) | |
Human Rights | Croatia | An investigation by Sibenik authorities continued at year's end into alleged war crimes committed by members of the 113th Sibenik Brigade against ethnic Serb civilians during the 1995 "Operation Storm." Four suspects remained in custody at year's end; a fifth was released in December due to a lack of evidence. (references) |
Croatia | For example, the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) published a series of reports documenting war crimes and abuses committed during the 1995 military operations "Flash" and "Storm." HHO also supported a controversial television program screened in October, "Storm Over Krajina," documenting war crimes allegedly committed by Croatian forces during and after Operation Storm. (references) | |
Political Economy | Oman | In this regard, Oman maintained its diplomatic relations with Iraq throughout the Desert Storm era, and has used this position to urge Iraq to comply fully with all applicable UN Security Council resolutions. (references) |
Travel | Czech Rep | An attempt to take the city by storm with a flurry of quick meetings and barrage of e-mails is more likely to arouse suspicion than business. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | However, in a departure from this trend, in April police officers used force at a temporarily closed Daewoo auto factory when workers attempted to storm and occupy the plant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dan Rather | Well, in the same way that the U.S. military has names for operations such as Operation Desert Storm, Anaconda, the Israeli military has their version of that. And they do call this, you know, Operation Protective Wall. |
Rush Limbaugh | The British people, who had refused to listen to Winston Churchill's warnings of the gathering storm, called on Churchill to replace the linguini-spined Chamberlain. |
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Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We have built up, moreover, a great system of government, which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set liberty upon foundations that will endure against fortuitous change, against storm and accident. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Together, they weathered the storm and preserved the union. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | American forces had just unleashed Operation Desert Storm. |
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| "Storm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.03% of the time. "Storm" is used about 2,163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.03% | 2,012 | 4,286 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.97% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.62% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.34% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "storm" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Storm | Last name | 2,000 | 4,840 |
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| "Storm" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a storm". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "storm". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Storm | Male, Female | English | A storm |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Storm Energy | USA | Storm Technology, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "storm": a storm in a teacup ♦ a storm of abuse ♦ a storm window or double window ♦ a time of storm and stress ♦ Anticyclonic storm ♦ any port in a storm ♦ brain storm ♦ broadcast storm ♦ cause storm ♦ convective storm ♦ create a storm ♦ critical storm period ♦ Cyclonic storm ♦ driving storm ♦ dust storm ♦ electric storm ♦ electrical storm ♦ equinoctial storm ♦ eye of the storm ♦ ice storm ♦ lightning storm ♦ line storm ♦ magnetic storm ♦ mail storm ♦ Mount Storm ♦ northern storm petrel ♦ operation Desert Storm ♦ ping storm ♦ revolving storm ♦ ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm ♦ ride the storm ♦ sand storm ♦ silver storm ♦ snow storm ♦ storm anchor ♦ storm and stress ♦ storm at ♦ storm at smb. ♦ storm beaten ♦ storm boat ♦ storm bound ♦ storm cellar ♦ storm center ♦ storm centre ♦ storm cloud ♦ storm clouds ♦ storm cock ♦ storm cone ♦ storm core ♦ storm door ♦ storm eye ♦ storm in ♦ storm jib ♦ storm ladder ♦ Storm Lake ♦ storm lamp ♦ storm lantern ♦ storm of applause ♦ storm of hail ♦ storm of protests ♦ storm path ♦ storm petrel ♦ storm sail ♦ storm sash ♦ storm scud ♦ storm signal ♦ storm tossed ♦ storm trooper ♦ storm troops ♦ storm warning ♦ storm water ♦ storm window ♦ take by storm ♦ the lull before the storm ♦ the sky threatens a storm ♦ the storm blown over ♦ thunder storm ♦ tropical revolving storm ♦ tropical storm ♦ violent storm ♦ weather a storm ♦ weather the storm. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "storm": Storm-and-stress period, storm-avoidance, storm-battened, storm-battered, storm-beach, Storm-beat, storm-beaten, storm-belt, storm-blown, storm-blue, storm-bound, storm-bound ship, storm-centre, storm-charged, storm-clouds, storm-cone, storm-damage, storm-damaged, storm-direction, storm-door, storm-driven, storm-filled, storm-finch, storm-finch petrel, storm-finch-petrel, storm-force, storm-fractured, storm-free, storm-frequencies, storm-front, storm-generated, storm-god, storm-harbours, storm-hit, storm-induced, storm-ladder, storm-laden, storm-lantern, storm-lash, storm-lashed, storm-nagy, storm-proof, storm-ravaged, storm-rinsed, storm-shortened, storm-signals, storm-silver, storm-station, storm-style, storm-swept, storm-swollen, storm-tossed, storm-tossed tempest-tossed tempest-tost tempest-swept, storm-tracking, storm-trooper, storm-troopers, storm-troops, storm-water, storm-wind. | |
Ending with "storm": brain-storm. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
storm | 7,244 | cheat conflict desert storm | 230 |
storm chaser | 1,981 | seattle storm | 224 |
the perfect storm | 1,611 | x man storm | 212 |
storm chasing | 1,109 | storm lake iowa | 193 |
ninja power ranger storm | 1,001 | tropical storm | 189 |
desert storm | 975 | thunder storm | 186 |
storm shelter | 850 | operation desert storm | 179 |
storm door | 808 | rain storm | 175 |
bill storm tropical | 764 | storm watch | 171 |
kirsten storm | 716 | storm picture | 157 |
brain storm | 572 | tempest storm | 155 |
storm window | 418 | lake elsinore storm | 149 |
conflict desert storm | 382 | larson storm door | 146 |
tampa bay storm | 339 | the ice storm | 139 |
after monica storm | 333 | kristen storm | 136 |
iron storm | 280 | lance storm | 130 |
crystal storm | 278 | ninja storm | 130 |
storm prediction center | 257 | metal storm | 121 |
geo storm | 251 | storm cloud | 114 |
lightning storm | 239 | cheat iron storm | 114 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "storm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stuhi (flaw, flurry, gale, hurricane, tempest, thunderstorm), shtrëngatë (squall, tempest, thunderstorm), rrebesh (cloud-burst, deluge, downpour, scat, spate), mësyj (assault, attack, beset, charge, pelt, waylay), furtunë. (various references) | |
Arabic | هاجم بعنف (assail, batter, inveigh, oversteer, rave, savage), هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, dispute, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, press, prey on, prong, rush, set about, strafe, strike), نقض (break, countermand, dart, descend, disallow, hurl curses, negative, precipitate, rebuttal, recantation, repeal, rescind, swoop, veto), لوم بقسوة (rant), وابل من النيران, وابل من القذائف, زوبعة (cyclone, fanfare, gust, hurricane, tornado, whirlwind), عصف (blow, rave), عاصفة (blow, foul wind, gale, ground swell, gust, tempest, thunder, weather), ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, clutter, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, pother, racket, roar, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, sensation, shindy, sound, stir, titbit, tumult), إنقضاض (assault, dive, onrush, onslaught, run, rush, stoop, swoop), إندفع بعنف, إقتحم (break, break into, break through, get into a rut), إقتحام (breaking in, raid, storming), ثور (beef, bovine, bull, ferment, fire, heat, ox, ramp, rampage, rebel, revolt, revolutionize, rise, set against, steer, take the bit in one's hands). (various references) | |
Asturian | nube (cloud). (various references) | |
Aymara | q'ejhoq'ejho. (various references) | |
Basque | ekaitz. (various references) | |
Bemba | inkuba. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | makóyisttsomo'ki. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ураган (hurricane), щурмувам (assault, charge, rush), щурм (charge, rush), кипеж (ebullience, ebulliency, ferment, fermentation), град (place, township, volley), буря (gale, war of elements, weather, wind, windstorm), бурна епоха, бурен изблик, бушувам (bellow, bluster, ramp, surge, welter), беснея (foam, rage, raise cain, ramp, rave, run amok, run amuck). (various references) | |
Cebuano | unos. (various references) | |
Chamorro | pakyo. (various references) | |
Chinese | 风暴 (Windstorm), 風暴 , 暴風雨 (rainstorm, tempest), 暴風 (storm wind), 波 (ripple, surge, wave). (various references) | |
Cornish | hager-awel. (various references) | |
Czech | zuřit (bluster, rage, rampage, rave, see red), zaútoèit na co, vyrazit (batter, break down, get off, imprint, set off, set out, smash down, smash in, spurt, stamp out, start), vánice (blizzard, snowstorm), nadávat (abuse, berate, call names, curse, grumble, revile, scold, swear), hřímat (fulminate), dobytí (capture, conquest, taking), bouřka (dust storm, squall, thunderstorm), bouřit (bluster, rage), bouře (burst, riot, tempest, thunderstorm), útok (aggression, assault, attack, brunt, charge, descent, offence, offensive, onset, onslaught, raid, rush, strike). (various references) | |
Danish | storm (tempest). (various references) | |
Dutch | storm (tempest). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | jatun tamia. (various references) | |
Esperanto | sturmi (assault), ventego, tempesto (tempest), kurataki (assault), ŝtormo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ódn (tempest). (various references) | |
Farsi | یورش اوردن (Raid, Sally, Sortie), کولاک (Blizzard), توفانی شدن (Squall), توفان (Squall, Tornado), تغییرناگهانی هوا, باحمله گرفتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | rajuilma, myrsky (gale, tempest). (various references) | |
French | orage (electric storm, lightning storm), tempête. (various references) | |
Frisian | stoarm (tempest). (various references) | |
German | Sturm (assault, attack, forward line, gale, gust, gustiness, rush, squall, tempest, thunder, turbulence, turbulency, volley), unwetter (thunderstorm, thunder-storm). (various references) | |
Greek | καταιγίδα (downfall, rainstorm, squall, tempest, thunderstorm), θύελλα (blizzard, gale, hurricane, squall, tempest), τρικυμία (heavy sea, tempest). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להשתער (assault, attack), להסתער (assail, attack, rush, strike, surge, tear into), לגעוש (quake, rage, seethe, shake, surge, tremble), לרגש (excite, rage, sensitize, stir), לסעור (bluster, rage), זלעפה (fever), התפרצות (blaze, burst, eruption, excitement, fit, outbreak, outburst, revolt, spurt, surge), געש (eruption, quaking), רעש (din, fuss, noise, shock, stir, tang, tumult, uproar), סופה (gale, hurricane, tempest, whirlwind), סערה (assault, excitement, flurry, gale, gust, tempest), סער (gale, gust, tempest, upheaval), נחשול (billow, breaker, gale, surf, surge, torrent, wave). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vihar (drift, hurricane wind, sniffer, tempest). (various references) | |
Icelandic | stormur (tempest). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggempur (batter, ruin), menggarang, mengganas (be ferocious, be vicious, rampage), gempur (attack, destroy), badai (cyclone, gale, hurricane, typhoon). (various references |
