Rainstorm vs Tempest - What's the difference?
rainstorm | tempest |
A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
* , chapter=8
, title= 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 :
As nouns the difference between rainstorm and tempest
is that rainstorm is a storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall while tempest is a storm, especially one with severe winds.As a verb tempest is
(rare) to storm.rainstorm
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
See also
* thunderstorm * deluge * snowstorm * hailstormtempest
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.