Crossword clues for maelstrom
maelstrom
- Powerful whirlpool
- Very turbulent situation
- Creator of perfect whirlpools?
- Violent vortex
- A powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)
- Tumultuous state of affairs
- McDonald's start ordering more salt, resulting in confusion
- Malts mixed with more water being circulated
- Effect of current conductor having left in minutes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maelstrom \Mael"strom\, n. [Norw., a whirlpool.]
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A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway. Hence: any large or powerful whirlpool.
Syn: whirlpool, vortex.
Also (Fig.) An uncontrollable agitated or confusedly disordered state or situation; as, a maelstrom of vice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s (Hakluyt, 1560s, has Malestrand), name of a famous whirlpool off the northwest coast of Norway, from Danish malstrøm (1673), from older Dutch Maelstrom (modern maalstroom), literally "grinding-stream," from malen "to grind" (see meal) + stroom "stream" (see stream (n.)). The name was used by Dutch cartographers (for example Mercator, 1595). OED says perhaps originally from Færoic mal(u)streymur. Popularized as a synonym for "whirlpool" c.1841, the year of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large and violent whirlpool. 2 Any violent or turbulent situation.
n. (alternative spelling of maelstrom English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Maelstrom is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book (ISBN 0140318119 ; ISBN 978-0-14-031811-1). The game is set in a 16th to 17th century British setting - the Tudor Period and the Elizabethan era - although the rules can be adapted to other locations or time periods. Firearms (readily available in Europe at this time) are conspicuously absent from the setting, mentioned only in passing in the initial rulebook.
Maelstrom has been republished as a PDF in 2008 by Arion Games, under license from Puffin Books, along with seven supplementary rulebooks and resources such as The Maelstrom Companion, the Beggars' Companion, and several modules and settings resources. These are all available for online purchase at RPGNow.com in PDF format (see external links, below). The Maelstrom Companion provides guidelines for the in-game purchase and use of period firearms, as well as new livings and other developments.
Maelstrom is a 2D video game developed by Andrew Welch, released in November 1992 for Macintosh. The game is an enhanced clone of Atari's 1979 Asteroids arcade game with a visual style similar to Atari's 1987 sequel, Blasteroids. Maelstrom was released when there were few action games for the high resolution, color displays of the Macintosh, so it garnered interest despite the dated concept, and led to the creation of Ambrosia Software. The game was later released under GPL and Creative Commons license as Free Software. Ports for operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, resulted from this.
Maelstrom is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Maelstrom was a dark ride attraction located in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 5, 1988, in the Norway Pavilion of the park's World Showcase section. It was a mix between a log chute and a traditional film attraction. Visitors rode boats patterned after longships that passed through various scenes that featured audio-animatronic figures.
On September 12, 2014, it was announced that the ride would be replaced by an attraction based on Disney's animated film Frozen. Maelstrom's final day of operation was October 5, 2014. Frozen Ever After opened on June 21, 2016, almost two years later.
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins is a real-time strategy game developed by KD-Vision in Russia and published by Codemasters.
Maelström is a 2000 Canadian film by Québécois writer- director Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed, alcoholic woman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she believes to have killed in a hit and run accident.
The film has won 23 awards, including 5 Genie Awards and the FIPRESCI Prize, and was nominated for 8 more awards.
"Maelstrom" is the seventeenth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series, Battlestar Galactica.
A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool.
In English, the word originally referred to the Moskstraumen.
Maelstrom may also refer to:
Maelstrom is a BBC television drama serial transmitted in 1985.
The six-part serial was written by Michael J. Bird, produced by Vere Lorrimer and directed by David Maloney. The major cast members included Tusse Silberg, David Beames, Trevor Baxter, Susan Gilmore, Edita Brychta, John Abineri, Christopher Scoular and Ann Todd. The production was filmed on location in the Ålesund area of Norway.
Maelstrom was essentially a thriller series, centering on a young woman who travels to Norway to claim an inheritance. She finds herself involved in the mysterious dealings of the family of her deceased benefactor - and that someone is out to kill her.
Maelstrom is the third book of the Destroyermen series by author Taylor Anderson.
Maelstrom is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms. It is set in 17th century France in the period following the death of Cardinal Richelieu.
The novel was revised and republished in 1955 as Ten Wicked Men.
Usage examples of "maelstrom".
It was a bad scene, filled with the sort of true-confession bathos that Ivor Balmi reviled with all his heart, yet was drawn into like a maelstrom.
His face was worried, mouth working nervously as he peered out over the bow, toward the maelstrom of spray where the whales were broaching, visible now from the deck.
War of the Maelstrom THEY FLOATED DOWN through the hole, which was wide enough for both Crim and Boday to drop first, Crim with the machine gun ready, Boday with the crossbow, to cover both angles.
Have faith in the Light, for the dawn came again, even at Dier Kenton Vale and the maelstrom that beset the war fleet at Werepoint.
The fabulist approached the main settlement, circled the stronghold of the maelstrom.
If this fabulist truly did destroy without discrimination, then he had succumbed to the dream of the maelstrom.
Clutching Lagan in the desperate hope of shielding her with his body, La Forge plummeted inside a maelstrom of disintegrating steel and stone.
His canines were locked on her neck, his tongue laving the wound and Faith felt herself enter a maelstrom she could have never envisioned.
There was no meshing of consciousness, no perfect blend of thoughts, just a maelstrom of lupine need.
She had news too from across the Atlantic, news that spoke of an imminent American invasion of Canada, and Sharpe, sitting in the mirador, had the sense of watching a whole world drawn into a maelstrom of flame and shot like that which hammered, unceasing, below.
The village, left reeking and smoking from the earlier battles fought through its streets, was once again a maelstrom of musket smoke, screams and blood.
Therefore a robot is not intuitive, which is the polite way of saying that it does not frequently reach down into the maelstrom of its garbage dump and draw out serendipitous insights.
The space before them was a maelstrom of skreeing skellers and wolves.
After half an hour I would hear the car turn in and the honking of the horn, and Tiki would erupt into a maelstrom of joy.
Teeth gritted in fury, face soaked with the upcast spray of the maelstrom, I followed him with frag fire, trying to keep him in the sight long enough to get a hit.