Tempest vs Cyclone - What's the difference?
tempest | cyclone |
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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, chapter=5, title= Any violent tumult or commotion.
* 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 :
A system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.
A low pressure system.
(popular) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
A strong wind.
A Southeastern and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon that results in wind speeds of around 150 to 200 km/h.
As nouns the difference between tempest and cyclone
is that tempest is a storm, especially one with severe winds while cyclone is a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.As a verb tempest
is to storm.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.
