Crossword clues for blizzard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Storm \Storm\, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. Stratum). [root]166.]
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A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm.
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A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
I will stir up in England some black storm.
--Shak.Her sister Began to scold and raise up such a storm.
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A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
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(Mil.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging, stormproof, storm-tossed, and the like.
Anticyclonic storm (Meteor.), a storm characterized by a central area of high atmospheric pressure, and having a system of winds blowing spirally outward in a direction contrary to that cyclonic storms. It is attended by low temperature, dry air, infrequent precipitation, and often by clear sky. Called also high-area storm, anticyclone. When attended by high winds, snow, and freezing temperatures such storms have various local names, as blizzard, wet norther, purga, buran, etc.
Cyclonic storm. (Meteor.) A cyclone, or low-area storm. See Cyclone, above.
Magnetic storm. See under Magnetic.
Storm-and-stress period [a translation of G. sturm und drang periode], a designation given to the literary agitation and revolutionary development in Germany under the lead of Goethe and Schiller in the latter part of the 18th century.
Storm center (Meteorol.), the center of the area covered by a storm, especially by a storm of large extent.
Storm door (Arch.), an extra outside door to prevent the entrance of wind, cold, rain, etc.; -- usually removed in summer.
Storm path (Meteorol.), the course over which a storm, or storm center, travels.
Storm petrel. (Zo["o]l.) See Stormy petrel, under Petrel.
Storm sail (Naut.), any one of a number of strong, heavy sails that are bent and set in stormy weather.
Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.
Syn: Tempest; violence; agitation; calamity.
Usage: Storm, Tempest. Storm is violent agitation, a commotion of the elements by wind, etc., but not necessarily implying the fall of anything from the clouds. Hence, to call a mere fall or rain without wind a storm is a departure from the true sense of the word. A tempest is a sudden and violent storm, such as those common on the coast of Italy, where the term originated, and is usually attended by a heavy rain, with lightning and thunder.
Storms beat, and rolls the main; O! beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain.
--Pope.What at first was called a gust, the same Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name.
--Donne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"strong, sustained snowstorm," 1859, origin obscure (perhaps somehow connected with blaze (n.1)); it came into general use in the U.S. in this sense the hard winter 1880-81. OED says it probably is "more or less onomatopœic," and adds "there is nothing to indicate a French origin." Before that it typically meant "violent blow," also "hail of gunfire" in American English from 1829, and blizz "violent rainstorm" is attested from 1770. The winter storm sense perhaps is originally a colloquial figurative use in the Upper Midwest of the U.S.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A severe snowstorm, especially with strong winds and greatly reduced visibility. 2 (context figuratively English) A large amount of paperwork. 3 (context figuratively English) A large number of similar things. vb. (context impersonal of snow English) To fall in windy conditions
WordNet
Wikipedia
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 35 mph (56 km/h) and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling but loose snow on the ground is lifted and blown by strong winds.
Blizzard is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a member of Iron Man's rogues gallery.
A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy snow.
Blizzard or The Blizzard may also refer to:
Blizzard is a 2003 American/Canadian Christmas-themed family film directed by LeVar Burton, and stars Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollack, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Blizzard is the first EP of the French collective Fauve on their own Fauve Corp label.
It was released on May 20, 2013. The songs were known since 2011 on the web. Besides the CD and digital downloads, Vinyl LP was also released. The vinyl included a coupon to allow free digital downloads for purchasers of the vinyl version.
Usage examples of "blizzard".
There was no reason for Blizzard to be such a hardass over this, and Chee was tempted to tell him so.
To give Blizzard a little lecture on how the Tano people, and most of the other Pueblos, kept their religious duties very much to themselves.
Her expression made it clear to Chee that she was surprised Blizzard would even think such a thing.
He told her about the effort to find the Kanitewa boy to keep his Navajo grandmother happy, and what had happened, and about Chee going back with Sergeant Blizzard, the cop from the BIA.
He had stopped thinking of Blizzard as a Cheyenne and was thinking of him as a city man.
I heard at Tano, and mostly from what Blizzard picked up and passed along, I think he was that kind of a man.
And somewhere before then Blizzard had said he was just too damned tired of driving to drive home.
He glanced at Blizzard, sitting on the edge of his couch, looking expectant.
Ford Escort, parked fifth row from the screen with pickup trucks on both sides of them, with Janet sitting beside him and Sergeant Harold Blizzard hulking over them in the backseat.
He was thinking Leaphorn told Streib about the Lincoln Canes, and Streib told the Albuquerque FBI, and Blizzard knows his business better than I gave him credit for.
The trains, which had been stopped by the blizzard, were running again, and men had come in to town from their claims to buy some groceries and hear the news.
The blizzard was scouring against the walls, and the winds squealed and moaned in the stovepipe.
Even the twelve patent desks might not last long enough to keep them warm until the blizzard ended.
Pa had lived through three days of a blizzard under the bank of Plum Creek.
Pa had told about sheep caught in a blizzard, huddled together under the snow.