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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
howling
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a howling gale (=one that makes a lot of noise)
▪ The ship was drifting towards the shore in a howling gale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wind
▪ Later, the woman came through the driving snow, staggering before the howling wind, huddled in upon herself.
▪ The howling wind kept firing salvos of rain against the windows, but after a while she stirred reluctantly.
▪ The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls.
▪ Immediately the howling wind caught him, nearly pitching him over.
▪ All I can do is lie in bed, listening to the howling wind and staring at the grey northern sky.
▪ We have all felt the howling wind of that great communal sigh which emanates from the queue behind you.
▪ Thoroughly braced, desperately consuming carbohydrates against the howling winds of the North Sea, I changed shape.
▪ She would walk, in lashing rain, a howling wind, rather than pay a bus fare.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
howling winds
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Howling

Howl \Howl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Howled; p. pr. & vb. n. Howling.] [OE. houlen, hulen; akin to D. huilen, MHG. hiulen, hiuweln, OHG. hiuwil[=o]n to exult, h?wo owl, Dan. hyle to howl.]

  1. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.

    And dogs in corners set them down to howl.
    --Drayton.

    Methought a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
    --Shak.

  2. To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.

    Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
    --Is. xiii. 6.

  3. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.

    Wild howled the wind.
    --Sir W. Scott.

    Howling monkey. (Zo["o]l.) See Howler, 2.

    Howling wilderness, a wild, desolate place inhabited only by wild beasts.
    --Deut. xxxii. 10.

Wiktionary
howling

n. The act of producing howls. vb. (present participle of howl English)

WordNet
howling
  1. adj. noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend" [syn: crying, yelling, shouting]

  2. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]

  3. n. a long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect" [syn: howl, ululation]

Wikipedia
Howling (The Angels album)

Howling is the eighth album by Australian hard rock band The Angels, released in 1986.

Howling (Hitomi Yaida song)

Howling is Hitomi Yaida's debut single under the name of Hitomi Yaida. It was released independently by Aozora Records on May 3, 2000.

Although only available in the Kansai region of Japan, the single reached number 50 on the Oricon charts. As a result of its popularity, Yaida was subsequently offered a recording contract with Toshiba-EMI.

This was Aozora's first ever release as the label itself was established the same day as the single was released. Aozora benefited from the attention this single attracted, also selling distribution contracts to Toshiba-EMI for its future catalogue.

Howling (The Saints album)

Howling is the ninth studio album released by The Saints. The album was their first release after an eight-year recording hiatus. This time Chris Bailey chose to lose the big production of the 1980s records to make an album that was more akin to the early Saints punk sound. However, instead of teaming up with the original members Bailey again employed a new line-up for the band, making this The Saints Mark III. The album was released to mixed reviews in mid 1996 in Australia and in 1997 everywhere else in the world.

Howling (2012 film)

Howling is a 2012 South Korean film written and directed by Yoo Ha based on the 1996 novel The Hunter (凍える牙 lit. "Freezing Fang") by Japanese writer Asa Nonami. The plot follows two detectives, a veteran male cop ( Song Kang-ho) and female rookie ( Lee Na-young), who discover that the serial killer they are after is not human, but instead a dog.

Howling

Howling may refer to:

  • Howling, vocalizations of the wolf
    • Howling, similar vocalizations of dogs
    • Howling, similar vocalizations of coyotes
  • The Howling (franchise), the fiction franchise
    • The Howling, the original 1977 horror novel
    • The Howling (film), the original 1981 film loosely based on the novel
  • Howling (2012 film), a South Korean film
  • Howling, a fictional village in which the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm is set
  • Howling (The Saints album), 1996
  • Howling (The Angels album), 1986
  • Howlin' (Jagwar Ma album), 2013
  • "Howling" (Abingdon Boys School song), by Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School
  • "Howling" (Hitomi Yaida song), a 2000 single by Hitomi Yaida
  • The Howling (EP), a 2007 EP by Within Temptation

Usage examples of "howling".

With a redder, more abysmal gleam in his deep dark eyes he told of men and women flayed alive, mutilated and dismembered, of captives howling under tortures so ghastly that even the barbarous Cimmerian grunted.

She hardly moved a foot in either direction, and yet the wind, as evidenced by the anemometer was howling along at a hundred and twenty miles an hour!

The silence was scarcely disturbed by the howling of jaguars and the chattering of the monkeys, the latter appearing to particularly irritate Master Jup.

Blaster bolts flashed through every angle, their bursts an arrhythmic drumbeat under the howling chorus of the Korun shield-weapons.

The English were howling, the French were shouting, a trumpet was calling from the barbican and every church bell on the Ile Saint Jean was tolling the alarm.

The Master of Sinanju eased back on the pressure, and Bulla stopped howling.

Wookiee Triebakk howling out some complaints at Pwoe about a failure in one of the nav systems of the newest Mon Calamari battle cruisers.

I may say that the caracal differs very much from the European lynx, who, according to Tschudi, betrays his presence by horrible howlings audible at a great distance.

When the storm was at its height, he posted himself on the quarter-deck, and, with book in hand, proceeded to exorcise all the spirits of hell whom he thought he could see in the clouds, and to whom he pointed for the benefit of the sailors who, believing themselves lost, were crying, howling, and giving way to despair, instead of attending to the working of the ship, then in great danger on account of the rocks and of the breakers which surrounded us.

There are portions well above twenty-five hundred meters, rugged and dangerous to cross and a notorious haunt of les Criards, the Howling Ones.

But now the time approached of Psyches marriage, preparation was made, blacke torches were lighted, the pleasant songs were turned into pittifull cries, the melody of Hymeneus was ended with deadly howling, the maid that should be married did wipe her eyes with her vaile.

He quickly cuffed her and then turned to David Dale, who was struggling to his knees amid the crushed roses, writhing and howling in agony.

Their generators all tried to strengthen their domes, and the whole system overloaded, fields weakening to the point where Terran sea level air pressure could rip through them, gusting in the first and only wind Homestead had ever known, howling around the eaves of all the houses the settlers had built in their cocksure confidence in their dome, around the eaves and down the streets and on into the fieldless sector, then out into space, leaving only vacuum behind.

He wanted to awaken Eugenie Fonda and make crazed, howling, back-bending love to her.

Router, only to discover the howling virtual wilderness left behind by the demise of a transcended civilization: a wilderness dominated by feral corporate instruments that used human-equivalent intelligences as fungible currency.