Avalanche vs Tornado - What's the difference?
avalanche | tornado |
A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
Anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity (like a barrage, blitz, etc).
To descend like an avalanche.
To come down upon; to overwhelm.
(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
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As nouns the difference between avalanche and tornado
is that avalanche is a large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice while tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.As a verb avalanche
is to descend like an avalanche.avalanche
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* snowslide, snowslipVerb
(avalanch)- The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
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English
(wikipedia tornado)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
- A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.
