Gust vs Tornado - What's the difference?
gust | tornado |
A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
(archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Alexander Pope
* 1942': ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn '''gust . — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)
Intellectual taste; fancy.
* Dryden
(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
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As nouns the difference between gust and tornado
is that gust is pleasure while tornado is tornado.gust
English
Etymology 1
Apparently from (etyl) gustr , though not recorded before Shakespeare.Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* windflawEtymology 2
From (etyl) gustus ‘taste’. For the verb, compare (etyl) (lena) gustare, (etyl) gustare, (etyl) gustar.Noun
(-)- An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.
- Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.
- A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.
Anagrams
* * ----tornado
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.