Crossword clues for chinook
chinook
- Wind round and round, in crack
- Native American - helicopter
- Pacific salmon
- Army transport helicopter
- Warm wind of the west
- Warm dry wind of the Rockies — large Pacific salmon
- Salmon of the North Pacific
- Pacific Northwest native
- O in hock (anag)
- Native American — wind — helicopter
- Native American — helicopter
- Canajun for a warmAlberta breeze
- Another name for the king salmon
- Army helicopter
- Large Pacific salmon valued as food
- Adults die after spawning
- A Penutian language spoken by the Chinook people
- Pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
- They were organized into settlements rather than tribes
- A member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river
- A warm dry wind blowing down the E slopes of the Rockies
- Large salmon
- Salmon or wind
- Oregon wind
- Greek character given retreat that's secluded in warm wind
- Outstanding feature primarily of go-ahead Native American
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chinook \Chi*nook"\, n.
(Ethnol.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name for a group of related native people in the Columbia River region of Washington and Oregon, from Salishan /činuk/, name of a village site. Name also extended to a type of salmon (1851) and warm spring wind. Chinook jargon was a mishmash of native (Chinook and Nootka), French, and English words; it once was lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest, and it is the earliest attested use of the word (1840).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Canada physics meteorology English) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. The chinook generally blows from the southwest, but its direction may be modified by topography. When it sets in after a spell of intense cold, the temperature may rise by 20–40°F in 15 minutes due to replacement of a cold air mass with a much warmer air mass in minutes. 2 The chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'').
WordNet
n. a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies [syn: chinook wind, snow eater]
a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon [syn: chinook salmon, king salmon]
a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook people [syn: Chinookan]
large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning [syn: chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Onchorynchus tshawtscha]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 732
Land area (2000): 0.514623 sq. miles (1.332868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.514623 sq. miles (1.332868 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14575
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.589432 N, 109.232126 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59523
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Headwords:
Chinook
Housing Units (2000): 263
Land area (2000): 1.022784 sq. miles (2.648997 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.022784 sq. miles (2.648997 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12315
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.272122 N, 123.946037 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chinook
Wikipedia
Chinook may refer to:
- Chinookan peoples, various groups of Native Americans
- Chinookan languages, in specific, Coastal Chinook and Upper Chinook
The Chinook is a rare breed of sled dog, developed in the state of New Hampshire during the early 20th century. The Chinook is New Hampshire's official state dog.
Chinook is a stop on the South Line (Route 201) of the CTrain light rail system in Calgary, Alberta. The station opened on May 25, 1981 as part of the original South line.
The station is located on the exclusive LRT right of way (adjacent to CPR ROW) at 61 Avenue SW, 5.7 km South of the City Hall Interlocking. The station is a three-block walk from the Chinook Centre shopping centre, Calgary's largest. A zero-fare bus provides transportation to the mall from the station. A 320-space parking facility is also available for park and ride commuters.
The station consists of a center-loading platform with ramp access on the North end.
Chinook is the only Public Transit Station named after a privately owned and operated business (the shopping mall) as there are no other landmarks or communities in the area with that title.
It serves the communities of Windsor Park, Meadowlark Park, Kingsland as well as extensive industrial and commercial areas located just to the east of Macleod Trail, such as Manchester and Fairview Industrial.
As part of Calgary Transit's plan to operate four-car trains starting by the end of 2014, all three-car stations will need to be extended. Chinook Station however was completely rebuilt to a new design very similar to Somerset-Bridlewood, McKnight/Westwinds and Saddletowne Stations. Construction on the new bus terminal started in the summer of 2012. On January 14, 2013, the station and bus terminal closed for redevelopment and has re-opened on September 3, 2013. Bus service to Chinook passed through a temporary terminal at 3 Street SW with a bus shuttle connecting the terminal and the 39th Avenue CTrain station during the station's closure.
In 2005, the station registered an average transit of 12,400 boardings per weekday.
Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed 1989–2007 at the University of Alberta, by a team led by Jonathan Schaeffer and consisting of Rob Lake, Paul Lu, Martin Bryant, and Norman Treloar.
Chinook was a counterculture underground newspaper published weekly in Denver, Colorado from Aug. 21, 1969 to Jan. 21, 1972. It was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate. A total of 117 issues were printed. In 1972 it merged with Boulder magazine to become The Straight Creek Journal, which considered itself an alternative press rather than an underground press publication, publishing weekly from Feb. 10, 1972 to Aug. 7, 1980. According to Abe Peck in his memoir Uncovering the Sixties, the original underground Chinook started to fall apart after a number of staffers left to become followers of Guru Maharaj Ji, who visited Denver and established a mission there in late 1971. Contributors to Chinook included Chip Berlet.
Usage examples of "chinook".
Chinook was, or Arthur Walden, either, because Chinook was the most famous dog in America, and Walden, his owner, was pretty famous, too.
Walden wrote a popular book, A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon, and he and his Chinook dogs - the famous sire himself and a team of his offspring - won the first Eastern International Sled Dog Derby in 1922.
He also cursed out Perry Greene and thus explained this gap in my expertise about my home state and Chinook dogs.
I still should have know Bear, though, especially because Rowdy and Kimi were Kotzebues, the strain of Alaskan malamute that originated at the Chinook Kennels.
But the owner of a gorgeous Chinook who deliberately passes off this stellar rare-breed specimen as a shepherd mix?
Chinooks could be registered with the American Rare Breed Association, and, mostly because of a long-ago AKC rebuff, Chinook owners were more interested in UKC than in AKC recognition.
At his heels trotted a glorious, large-bellied Chinook, her body wagging, her eyes radiant with delight.
The Chinook dog, once nearly extinct, had just been added to the list of 146 - now 147 breeds and varieties recognized by the United Kennel Club, the largest working-dog registry and the second-largest all-breed registry in the United States.
But afterwards the chinook started blowing and when the snows had gone I decided to go up.
It had been snowing heavily for a week and the chinook beginning to blow there began at half-past eight in the morning a series of avalanches high up on the peak of the Overlander.
Three The Chinook helicopter, a big, fast experimental model on demonstration loan from the US Army of the Rhine, suffered from the same defect as other, smaller and less advanced models in that it was extremely noisy, the rackety clamour of the engines making conversation difficult and at times impossible.
Superficially, it would have seemed, their presence could be more than justified, but as the pilot had firmly stated that he had no intention of setting his Chinook down in floodwaters and the experts, portly gentlemen all, had indicated that they had no intention of descending by winch or rope ladder only to be swept away, it was difficult to see how their presence could be justified.
The Chinook, flying at no more than two hundred metres and 55 about half a kilometre out to sea, was directly opposite Oosterend when the sea dyke broke.
As the pilot turned his Chinook westwards, presumably to see what the conditions were like in the polder, de Graaf leaned over to one of the Rijkswaterstaat experts.
The Chinook curved round, passing over the waters flooding across the first reaches of the polder and came to hover some fifteen metres above the ground and some twenty metres distant.