What is the difference between storm and tempest?
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Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
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A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.
* Shakespeare
(meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).
(military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.
To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.
To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces.
A storm, especially one with severe winds.
* 1847 , (Herman Melville), Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas , ch. 16:
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* 1914 , (Ambrose Bierce), "One Officer, One Man":
(label) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
(rare) To storm.
(transitive, chiefly, poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
* 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book VII:
* 1811 , , "The Drowned Lover," in Poems from St. Irvyne :
As nouns the difference between storm and tempest
is that storm is any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather while tempest is a storm, especially one with severe winds.As verbs the difference between storm and tempest
is that storm is to move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger while tempest is to storm.storm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) storm, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- We hear this fearful tempest sing, / Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm .
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- The proposed reforms have led to a political storm .
- Her sister / Began to scold and raise up such a storm .
Hyponyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, gale, hurricaneDerived terms
* barnstorm * bestorm * duststorm * leafstorm * sandstorm * snowstorm * storm in a tea-kettle * stormlike * stormtrooper * stormy * thunderstorm * windstormSee also
* blizzardEtymology 2
From (etyl) stormen, sturmen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- She stormed out of the room.
- Troops stormed the complex.
External links
* (wikipedia) * (projectlink) * 1000 English basic words ----tempest
English
Noun
(en noun)- As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.
- (Smollett)
Derived terms
* tempest in a teapot * tempestuousVerb
(en verb)- . . . the seal
- And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk,
- Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
- Tempest the ocean.
- Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,
- And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.