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tornado |
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tornado Noun pl -dos or -does a rapidly whirling column of air, usually characterized by a dark funnel-shaped cloud causing damage along its path [Spanish tronada thunderstorm]
tornado a highly localized, violent windstorm occurring over land, usually in the U.S. Midwest, characterized by a vertical, funnel-shaped cloud. See also: Wind
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tornado Translationstornado [tornadoes] [tɔːˈneɪdəu] n → tornado tornado [tɔːˈneɪdəu] [tornadoes , pl ] n (storm) → Tornado m tornado n tornado [toːˈneidəu] a violent whirlwind that can cause great damage The village was destroyed by a tornado.tornadoإعْصار دَوّاميураганtornádotornadoder Tornadoανεμοστρόβιλος, σίφουναςtornadotornaadoگردبادpyörremyrskytornadeטוּרנָדוֹघूर्ण वायुtornado, orkanforgószélangin puyuhskÿstrókur; hvirfilbylurtornado竜巻회오리바람tornadastornado, viesuļvētraputing beliungwervelwindvirvelstorm, tornadotornadofuracãotornadăторнадоtornadotornadovirvelstorm, tornadoพายุทอร์นาโดkasırga, tornado, siklon龍捲風торнадо, смерчآندھي، جھکڑbão táp龙卷风 |
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Branches, great and small, torn away by the ferocity of the tornado, hurtled through the wildly waving verdure, carrying death and destruction to countless unhappy denizens of the thickly peopled world below. I can speed onward with the rapidity of a tornado, sometimes at the loftiest heights, sometimes only a hundred feet above the soil, while the map of Africa unrolls itself beneath my gaze in the great atlas of the world. Sam, upon this, began to bestir himself in real earnest, and after a while appeared, bearing down gloriously towards the house, with Bill and Jerry in a full canter, and adroitly throwing himself off before they had any idea of stopping, he brought them up alongside of the horse-post like a tornado. |
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