STORM SIGNAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A signal announcing the approach of a storm (particularly a storm of marked violence)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("storm signal" is a kind of...):

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storm signal"):

storm cone (a canvas cone hoisted to warn of high winds)

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