Crossword clues for squall
squall
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squall \Squall\ (skw[add]l), n. [Cf. Sw. sqval an impetuous running of water, sqvalregn a violent shower of rain, sqvala to stream, to gush.] A sudden and violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
The gray skirts of a lifting squall.
--Tennyson.
Black squall, a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds.
Thick squall, a black squall accompanied by rain, hail,
sleet, or snow.
--Totten.
White squall, a squall which comes unexpectedly, without
being marked in its approach by the clouds.
--Totten.
Squall \Squall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squalled (skw[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Squalling.] [Icel. skval
Cf. Squeal.] To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.
Squall \Squall\, n. A loud scream; a harsh cry.
There oft are heard the notes of infant woe,
The short, thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sudden, violent gust of wind," 1719, originally nautical, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian skval "sudden rush of water," Swedish skvala "to gush, pour down"), probably ultimately a derivative of squall (v.).
"cry out loudly," 1630s, probably from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse skvala "to cry out," and of imitative origin (compare squeal (v.)). Related: Squalled; squalling. As a noun from 1709.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line. 2 A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. Often a nautical usage. vb. To cry or wail loudly.
WordNet
n. sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation
utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo]
blow in a squall; "When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails"
Wikipedia
A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed that is usually associated with active weather, such as rain showers, thunderstorms, or heavy snow. Squalls refer to an increase in the sustained winds over a short time interval, as there may be higher gusts during a squall event. They usually occur in a region of strong mid-level height falls, or mid-level tropospheric cooling, which force strong localized upward motions at the leading edge of the region of cooling, which then enhances local downward motions just in its wake.
A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed.
Squall may also refer to:
- Piano Squall (born 1983), American pianist
- "Squall" (song), a single released by D'espairsRay
- Squall Leonhart, the main hero of the role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII
- USS Squall (PC-7), the seventh Cyclone class patrol ship
- "Squall" (djinn), a Jupiter djinn from the Game Boy Advance game called Golden Sun
- The Squall, a 1929 film by Alexander Korda with Alice Joyce and Loretta Young
- Squall (Transgression), the ruler of Kaypron in the Transgression series of books
"Squall" is the 19th episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 229th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on March 26, 2013. The episode is written by Bill Nuss and directed by Tom Wright, and was seen by 18.62 million viewers.
The team investigates death of a navy medical officer aboard a ship that went through a storm. The prime suspect turns out to be a 4-star admiral, who is also McGee's estranged father.
Usage examples of "squall".
As to ascertaining if a squall had blown it on the landing-place, half way up, that was impossible in the dark.
And there old Bongo sits on the edge of the roof with the baby in his arms, and the baby is squalling quite some, and Bongo is making funny noises, and showing his teeth as the folks commence gathering in the street below.
The little girl began squalling again as she was handed over, but Bora took no heed.
Let me put it like this: by comparison, the squalling cacodemons were quiet and melodious.
Scott Covey was being judged harshly was because some people said he should have known about the squall.
Along the aisles set between the trees, children played and squalled, and old people sat dozily on wrought iron benches in a seemingly impossible co-existence.
Directly before him, a squalling eggling, frozen mere feet from the safety of a rock-niche.
His parachute was equipped with an emergency beeper that would have squalled over Guard channel if he had ejected, but nothing had been heard that afternoon.
We left the Elderling tent billowing in the wind and fled a promised summer squall.
At last there is a stuttering of three explosions, and a huge squall of smokestone kecks up from porous earth and uncoils in a smog that expands fast to clog the channel the graders have made, and moves slower as it begins to set.
Jack, the kookaburra, was jealous of new birds and Cocky squalled from the top of the wagon.
A couple of minutes later, Ed Laster, in the adjacent search sector to the south, suddenly dropped a smoke light to mark his position and began to circle, reporting some ships ahead partially obscured by a rain squall.
I run the channel of Piombino in a mistral, shoot the Faro of Messina in a white squall, double Santa Maria di Leuca in a breathing Levanter, and come skimming up the Adriatic before a sirocco that is hot enough to cook my maccaroni, and which sets the whole sea boiling worse than the caldrons of Scylla.
A squall came up, and only the favor of Saint Lier brought us to a small island none of us knew, somewhere near the Sorrows.
An unexpected motherliness in her manner coupled with an unequivocal and protective menace dispatched the men to their tasks and further postponed the squall of questions that had been brewing all day.