different between hurricane vs cyclone

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?r??-k?n, IPA^(key): /?h???k?n/
• (US) enPR: h?r??-k?n', hûr??-k?n', IPA^(key): /?h????ke?n/, /?h???ke?n/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno *hurak?.

Noun

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
2. (meteorology) A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm

Coordinate terms

• (type of a cyclone): cyclone, tropical storm, typhoon
• (meteorology): breeze, gale, storm

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• anticyclone
• wind

Etymology 2

Coined by Jeret Peterson.

Noun

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip

See also

• (freestyle aerial skiing): rudy, randy, daffy, full, double-full, triple-full, lay, back, slap-back, stretch

Anagrams

• raunchier

English

Etymology

Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either ?????? (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or ?????? (kukló?, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle ?????? (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.klo?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa?.kl??n/

Noun

cyclone (plural cyclones)

1. (broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure
2. (narrow sense) Such weather phenomenon occurring in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
3. A low pressure system.
4. (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
5. A strong wind.
6. A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cyclone.

Derived terms

• anticyclone
• cyclone cellar
• cyclone pit

Translations

Verb

cyclone (third-person singular simple present cyclones, present participle cycloning, simple past and past participle cycloned)

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   • 1997, D. J. H. Jones, Murder in the New Age

     White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness

   • 2015, Robert J. Morgan, Mastering Life Before It's Too Late

     Now, all of a sudden, I had to juggle class schedules with study time and assignment deadlines and work hours. It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.

See also

• hurricane
• typhoon
• polar vortex
• cyclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kuklôn), present active participle of ?????? (kukló?, “I encircle”), from ?????? (kúklos, “circle”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.klon/

Noun

cyclone m (plural cyclones)

1. cyclone (rotating system of winds)

Further reading

• “cyclone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).