Crossword clues for derecho
derecho
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derecho \De*re"cho\, n. [Sp. derecho straight.] A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from American Spanish derecho, from Old Spanish diestro, from Latin directus (see direct (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A windstorm with strong straight-line winds.
Wikipedia
A derecho (, from , "straight") is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a land-based, fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms.
Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash floods. Convection-induced winds take on a bow echo (backward "C") form of squall line, forming in an area of wind divergence in upper levels of the troposphere, within a region of low-level warm air advection and rich low-level moisture. They travel quickly in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to an outflow boundary (gust front), except that the wind is sustained and increases in strength behind the front, generally exceeding hurricane-force. A warm-weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in summer, especially during June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere, within areas of moderately strong instability and moderately strong vertical wind shear. They may occur at any time of the year and occur as frequently at night as during the daylight hours.
Usage examples of "derecho".
No soy un arquitecto cerrado: tiendo la mano a su valioso grano de arena, reservándome, cela va sans dire, el derecho de repudiar lo deleznable y lo quimérico.
Dependiente de una mercería de la calle Buenos Aires, estudiaba Derecho a ratos perdidos.
Poseo las virtudes de las hierbas, la astrología judiciaria, las matemáticas y el derecho canónico.
No nos dejemos ofuscar por los sofismos de Ciudadela y de San Fernando: todo espíritu ponderado reconoce que Avellaneda, por derecho propio, está en la plana de honor.
En tales ocasiones el orador suele resultar un solemne turiferario, pero Limardo, sin tanto voulez vous, atropelló derecho viejo y se mandó unas parrafadas al uso nostro sobre la desavenencia de la discordia.
Mientras el ojo derecho llora la desaparición del amigo, el ojo izquierdo tiene que reír para excitar a los marineros.
Tonifíquelo, mi querido Parodi, tonifíquelo: refiera, con la autoridad que soy el primero en concederle, cómo ese detective por derecho propio, que se llama Gervasio Montenegro, salvó en un tren expreso la amenazada joya de la Princesa a quien muy luego otorgara su mano.
Se empinó de golpe hacia atrás y voló el cuchillo derecho y fue a perderse ajuera, en el Maldonado.
Corto y derecho, he drew the sword out of the muleta, profiled on the splintered left horn, dropped the muleta across his body, so his right hand with the sword on the level with his eye made the sign of the cross, and, rising on his toes, sighted along the dipping blade of the sword at the spot high up between the bull’s shoulders.
Tres princesas aladas de sangre real le habían disputado el derecho al trono, y ella las había matado a las tres, luchando con las manos desnudas en la sala octogonal del trono.
And I saw the priest with his skirts tucked up scrambling over a bench and those after him were chopping at him with the sickles and the reaping hooks and then some one had hold of his robe and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles while a third man held the skirt of his robe and the Priest’s arms were up and he was clinging to the back of a chair and then the chair I was standing on broke and the drunkard and I were on the pavement that smelled of spilled wine and vomit and the drunkard was shaking his finger at me and saying, ‘No hay derecho, mujer, no hay derecho.
Guardé el puñado en el bolsillo derecho, en el que había una tijerita y una carta de Allahabad.
La reina tiene el derecho de arrojar la primera piedra y la última, que suele ser inútil.
Entonces su pie derecho, oculto bajo su traje largo, se torcía hacia atrás en una contorsión atroz.