cyclone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.
Inflected forms:
form: cyclones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cyclones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cycloning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cycloned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cycloned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Near-synonym: storm
gloss: A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane
gloss: The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A strong wind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
pos: noun
gloss: To separate using a cyclone separator.
pos: verb
examples: The product is cycloned and overflow at 45-50% solids is pumped to primary flotation where 50-70% of the copper is removed as a 21% concentrate.
The Syncrude Tar Sand Mine in Alberta, Canada uses a similar hydraulic cell construction technique to raise tailings embankments, although tailings are not cycloned.
Some catsup manufacturers demand a hot break before the tomatoes are cycloned in order to retain the largest possible amount of pectin from the tomatoes.
gloss: To storm as a cyclone.
pos: verb
examples: What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned?
gloss: To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force.
pos: verb
examples: White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness
Pine needles cycloned wildly as Jan swung her car into the Institute's parking lot.
The unicorn stamped and gave him a scornful look as Sally cycloned away from them, but Wulfric laughed to himself a crafty laugh.
He raised his arms in supplication even as the cloak's hood blew back and his hair cycloned—like he was standing in a vortex.
gloss: To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy.
pos: verb
examples: When Whyte got an eyeful of our groundsman's Barkjano ass bouncing to a rapid beat, he exploded, not so much in words as in gestures and a rapid departure that contained far greater energy than a trifling “storm”—he cycloned-whirlwinded-squalled and thundergaled out of the house and the whole barbecue.
The winds of change cycloned around Rhodesia and the debris began to fall within its borders.
Now, all of a sudden, I had to juggle class schedules with study time and assignment deadlines and work hours. It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.
Related words: hurricane
typhoon
polar vortex
Derived words: anticyclone
bomb cyclone
cyclone cellar
cyclone chaser
cyclone fence
cyclone hunter
cyclonelike
cyclone pit
cyclone sandwich
cyclonic
cyclonoscope
extratropical cyclone
ex-tropical cyclone
hydrocyclone
mesocyclone
misocyclone
multicyclone
news cyclone
subtropical cyclone
supercyclone
tropical cyclone
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