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CYCLONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A violent rotating windstorm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("cyclone" is a kind of...):
windstorm (a storm consisting of violent winds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cyclone"):
hurricane (a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale))
tornado; twister (a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground)
typhoon (a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans)
Derivation:
cyclonal; cyclonic (of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm)
cyclonic (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center)
cyclonical (of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cyclone" is a kind of...):
atmosphere; atmospheric state (the weather or climate at some place)
Meronyms (parts of "cyclone"):
depression; low (an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation)
Domain category:
meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))
Antonym:
anticyclone ((meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern)
Derivation:
cyclonal (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center)
cyclonic (of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm)
cyclonic; cyclonical (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center)
Context examples:
The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The spacecraft's JunoCam also obtained visible-light imagery of the new cyclone.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
Its north pole is dominated by a central cyclone surrounded by eight circumpolar cyclones with diameters ranging from 2,500 to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers) across.
(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)
The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
"There's a cyclone coming, Em," he called to his wife.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Then, during Juno's 22nd science pass, a new, smaller cyclone churned to life and joined the fray.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
You also came through the air, being carried by a cyclone.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The two datasets shed light on atmospheric processes of not just Jupiter but also fellow gas giants Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as well as those of giant exoplanets now being discovered; they even shed light on atmospheric processes of Earth's cyclones.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
