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noun
- A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
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noun - the act of saturating or the process of being saturated
- (physics) the condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized
- (chemistry) the state of a saturated solution
- (chemistry) the state of an organic compound that has no double bond, double or triple bonds
- (meteorology) the state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity
- the intensity or vividness of a colour
- intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it
- the flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold
- (music) an effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music
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verb
- (past of, scatter)
adjective
- randomly distributed.
- (meteorology) (Of the sky) three eighths to four eighths obscured by clouds.
- (meteorology) (Of clouds) covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
| | scirocco |
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noun - An alternative spelling of sirocco.
| | scud |
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noun
- The act of scudding.
- Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
- A gust of wind.
- (Bristolian dialect) A scab on a wound.
- (context, slang, Scotland) naked, Naked; pornography.
- (context, slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.
- A bottle of Scud
- A Soviet-developed ballistic missile.
verb (scud, d, ing)
- (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
- (context, intransitive, nautical) To run before a high wind with no sails set.
- (Northumbrian) To hit.
- (Northumbrian) To speed.
- (Northumbrian) To skim.
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noun
- (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
- If you plant a in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
- (context, countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
- The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown .
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Sometimes a man may feel encouraged to spread his before he settles down to raise a family.
- (countable) A precursor.
- The of an idea. Which idea was the (idea)?
- (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precusor in a defined chain of precusors.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- The team with the best regular season record receives the top in the conference tournament.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- The rookie was a surprising top .
- Initialization state of a Wikipedia:Pseudorandom number generator, pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
- If you use the same you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
- Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The latest has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
verb
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- A venture captialist seeds young companies.
- The tournament coordinator will the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
- This marketing company successfully seeds viral campaigns using wikipedia:media meshing, media meshing.
- The programmer seeds fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.''
adjective
- Held in reserve for future growth.
- money
- Don't eat your corn
- First. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precusor in a defined chain of precusors.
- What was the number that initiated the sequence of values?
- The qualifying match determines the position one will have in the final competition.
- A precursor, especially in a process without a defined initial state.
- What was the idea behind your scheme?
- Use your profits as money for your next venture.
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noun
- a fine mist-like evening rain
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proper noun (also Seth)
- An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
| | sferics |
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noun
- electromagnetic, Electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. (plural of, sferic)
- 1920: Wilbur H. Paulsen (American Meteorological Society pub.), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society http://books.google.com/books?vid=0myaFW4os6gDX0JMkJ&id=_IEOAAAAIAAJ&q=sferics&dq=sferics&pgis=1
- :A Sferics Locating System has been developed to determine the geographical location of lightning strokes...
- 1965 (pub.): Mitre Corporation, Research & Experimentation 1960-1964 http://books.google.com/books?vid=0womdjATmZ-KMq2Hz5&id=KqTvgTb9FlAC&q=sferics&dq=sferics&pgis=1
- :...an artificial generator was used as a known source of EM pulses.
- 1987: Barbara Tufty, 1001 Questions Answered About Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Air Disasters http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0486254550&id=LpVoN0gmVKcC&pg=RA2-PA38&lpg=RA2-PA38&dq=sferics&sig=BapiarKgnm1NVr9NDBl1Xcgtp-A
- :Researchers have thought that possibly these could be used to track hurricanes"but so far, they have been only marginally successful.
- 1998: Donald R. MacGorman?, W. David Rust, The Electrical Nature of Storms http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0195073371&id=_NbHNj7KJecC&pg=RA1-PA248&lpg=RA1-PA248&ots=YIEHDWeyz4&dq=sferics&sig=OLS0anRthBaYjJGasIzg1w-2dUo
- :Sferics are classified normally by the frequency of the receiver used to detect them.
- 1999: Rudolf F. Graf, William Sheets, The Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0070151164&id=hSkgkWoCTOcC&pg=RA1-PA1040&lpg=RA1-PA1040&dq=sferics&sig=vvKMO0TLQ5cGW8FT1orXw_T1lEE
- :This circuit generates a bipolar pulse waveform that closely approximates the main features of .
- 2003: Rakov, Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman, Lightning: Physics and Effects http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521583276&id=NviMsvVOHJ4C&pg=PA446&lpg=PA446&dq=sferics&sig=X0H-Fg7yaFTa7xnvGjFpMCvXmXM
- PPA446,M1
- :The second common theoretical approach of the propagation of involves viewing the Earth-ionosphere cavity as a waveguide...
- (context, jargon) radio interference caused by sferics; atmospherics
- 1959: D. L. Carpenter, Identification of Whistler Sources on Visual Records and a Method of Routine Whistler Analysis http://books.google.com/books?vid=0CvavUP1EobqnPvg2kcxKpm&id=AMkEAAAAIAAJ&q=sferics&dq=sferics&pgis=1
- :In the identification of sources of short whistlers, the spectral characteristics of the can often be used to establish many as doubtful...
- 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0060930217&id=jqS2pmUIfOAC&pg=PA243&lpg=PA243&dq=sferics&sig=hTNgLxC4jVzXVTay3Pl6bE_2Dgw
- :As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus....
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noun
- A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection.
| | shimmer |
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noun
- A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.
verb
- (intransitive) To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.
| | shower |
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noun
- (also shower of precipitation) A brief fall of precipitation.
- Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.
- (also shower bath) A device for bathe, bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- (also shower bath) An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- I'm going to have a shower. (British, Australian)
- I'm going to take a shower. (especially US)
- A bridal shower; a fund-raiser held in honor of a bride attended by female friends of the bride.
- The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.
- A baby shower.
- A mild insult, originally applied to a group of people but also to an individual.
- You complete shower!
verb
- (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
- To bathe using a shower.
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noun
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy .
verb (sinks, sinking, sank, sunk or sunken)
- (intransitive) To descend into a liquid or other substance or material.
- (transitive) To submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material.
- (transitive) To cause (a ship, etc) to sink.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
| | sirocco |
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noun
- A strong southerly to southeasterly wind in the Mediterranean that originates from the Sahara and similar North African regions.
| | sit |
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noun
- (context, rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to in meditation.
verb (sits, sitting, sat, sat or rarely sitten)
- (context, intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.
- After a long day of walking, it was good just to and relax.
- (context, intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
- I asked him to sit.
- (context, intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
- The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
- To be a member of a deliberative body.
- I currently on a standards committee.
- (context, intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted.
- How will this new contract with the workers?
- I don"t think it will well.
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noun - A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
- wikipedia:Diffuse sky radiation, Diffuse sky radiation—solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere
| | sleet |
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noun
- (uncountable) Partly frozen rain falling as precipitation.
verb
- (avalent) Said of the weather when sleet is falling.
- I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
| | sling psychrometer |
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noun
- a form of psychrometer in which the pair of thermometers are attached to a cord and spun round in the air
| | smaze |
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noun - smoky haze in the air
| | smog |
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noun
- A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution
| | Smoggy |
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noun (Smogg, ies)
- (pejorative) A person from Middlesbrough.
| | snow |
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noun
- (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
- 1928: w:A._A._Milne, A. A. Milne, w:The_House_at_Pooh_Corner, The House at Pooh Corner
- : ...the wind had dropped, and the , tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest, and sometimes the place was Pooh's nose and sometimes it wasn't...
- (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
- <table><tr><td>snow colour: </td><td bgcolor="
- F9F5E6?" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
- (uncountable) Random electrical noise in a television picture.
- (uncountable) (slang) cocaine, Cocaine.
- (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen water.
- We have had several heavy snows this year.
verb (snows, snowing, snowed, snowed or snown)
- (italbrac, used only in the infinitive and the third-person singular with it) Said of the weather when snow is falling.
- It is snowing.
- It started to .
- (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
- (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards
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noun - A heap of snow.
| | snowcap |
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noun
- (uncountable) A layer of snow covering a mountain top.
- (countable) A small hummingbird, Microchera albocoronata, which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama.
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noun - A bank of snow accumulated by the wind.
| | snowfall |
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noun
- An instance of falling of snow.
- There has been a snowfall every day this week.
- The amount of snow that falls at one snowfall.
- London recorded a snowfall of 10 centimetres last night.
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noun
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers
- The snow bunting
| | snowstorm |
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noun
- Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
| | solenoid |
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noun
- A coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it
- A mechanical switch consisting of such a coil containing a metal core whose movement is controlled by the current
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noun
- the ratio of the mass of water vapour to mass of air
| | spit |
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noun
- A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
- A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
verb (spit, t, ed)
- To impale on a spit.
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noun
- The tide which occurs when the moon is new or full; the effects of the Sun and moon being reinforced this type of tide is of maximum range.
| | sprinkle |
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noun (plural: sprinkles)
- A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
- He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
- A light rain shower.
| | squall |
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noun
- A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
- A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. Often a nautical usage.
verb
- To cry or wail loudly.
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose so high at these objections; till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.
- 1916: w:Jack London, Jack London, The Red One
- : Squalling like an infuriated cat, the shadow crashed down
- 1998: w:Anne McCafferey?, Anne McCafferey?, Masterharper of Pern
- : she wrapped the squalling, wriggling baby tightly into the fine cotton sheet
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noun - (meteorology) A line of thunderstorms, hunderds of miles long, with squalls at the advancing edge
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adjective
- characterized by squalls
| | stationary front |
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noun
- (Meteorology). When an air mass boundary is neither advancing nor retreating along the surface, the front is called a stationary front.
| | statoscope |
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noun
- an instrument used for indicating or recording small changes in barometric pressure or in the altitude of an aircraft
| | stone |
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural stones except as shown below)
- (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
- A small piece of stone.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- (plural: ) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc.
- 1882: Generally, however, the or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen tods. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- a peach
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- kidney
- A piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
- (colour) A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- <table><tr><td>stone colour: </td><td bgcolor="
- 8A807C" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which are bowled down the ice.
verb (ston, ing)
- (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (context, transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
adjective
- Constructed of stone.
- walls
- Having the appearance of stone.
- pot
- (colour) Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.
- free
adverb
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is deaf. This soup is cold.
- (slang) absolutely, Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
- I went crazy after she left.
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noun
- Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
- very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane
- weather associated with a storm
- (military) a violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position;
verb
- To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.
- She stormed out of the room.
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adjective (storm, y)
- Of or pertaining to storms.
- Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; tempestuous.
- a season or a day''
- Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.
- a sound or shocks
- Violent; passionate; rough.
- passions
(Webster)
| | stratocumulus |
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noun - (meteorology) A principal low-level cloud type, predominantly stratiform, in the form of a gray and/or whitish layer or patch, which nearly always has dark parts and is nonfibrous.
| | stratosphere |
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noun
- The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar UV radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause (10-15 kilometers) to approximately 50 kilometers.
- layer of the earth's atmosphere located above the troposphere and below the mesosphere.
| | stratus |
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noun (strati)
- (meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.
| | sundog |
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noun - (alternative spelling of, sun dog)
| | surface boundary layer |
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noun
- (Meteorology)The portion of the atmosphere lying next to the surface of the earth and extending up to between 50 and 100 meters.
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