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Tornado vs Tornadolike - What's the difference?

tornado | tornadolike |

As a noun tornado

is tornado.

As an adjective tornadolike is

resembling or characteristic of a tornado.

tornado

English

(wikipedia tornado)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= 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.

    Synonyms

    * twister * cyclone

    Derived terms

    * tornado watch, tornado warning (A tornado watch' means that conditions are favorable for producing a tornado. A tornado ' warning means that a tornado has been sighted in the area or has been detected on radar.) * tornado shelter

    See also

    * cyclone * dust devil * hurricane * tsunami * typhoon * waterspout * willy willy

    Anagrams

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    tornadolike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a tornado.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 13, author=James R. Oestreich, title=Levine Leads Young Musicians Into Wagnerian Territory, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In recent seasons they have included smaller turnouts on the often boggy lawn and the loss of some 30 huge trees on festival properties to a freak wall of tornadolike wind. }}