A huge waterspout has formed.
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Waterspout
//ˈwɔ.təɹ spaʊt//
Synonyms for "waterspout" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
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1 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πρηστήρ noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Arabic
1 entries- تِنِّين noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Bulgarian
2 entries- воден смерч noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- водосток noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Catalan
1 entries- mànega noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 水龍捲 /水龙卷 noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- 海龍捲風 /海龙卷风 noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Dutch
2 entries- waterhoos noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- waterspuwer noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Esperanto
1 entries- trombo noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Estonian
2 entries- pilvesammas noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- vesipüks noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
French
1 entries- trombe noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
German
2 entries- Wasserhose noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- Wasserspeier noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Greek
1 entries- υδροστρόβιλος noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Hindi
1 entries- जलस्तंभ noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Ido
1 entries- trombo noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Irish
1 entries- cuaifeach uisce noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Japanese
1 entries- 雨樋 noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Latin
1 entries- columna noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skypumpe noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skypumpe noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- طولومبه noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- ماسوره noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Pohnpeian
1 entries- elipip en pihl noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Polish
2 entries- trąba wodna noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- wodotrysk noun (channel through which water is discharged)
Portuguese
2 entries- calha noun (channel through which water is discharged)
- tromba-d'água noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Romanian
1 entries- trombă noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Spanish
2 entries- tifón noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
- tromba noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Thai
1 entries- นาคเล่นน้ำ noun (tornado that occurs over a body of water)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout.
Source: tatoeba (12381103)
Basically, the problem was actually the British had too many ships! The Grand Fleet wasn't half bad with its gunnery, but there was so many battleships throwing fire at the battlecruisers and battleships of the High Seas Fleet that it was actually very difficult to tell "Is that splash from us? Is that splash from that ship? Is that splash from a ship in another division? We don't know!", so a lot of incorrect estimates and measures were taken, which lead to an awful lot of waterspouts going up, but not anywhere near the number of hits that you would otherwise expect[…]
Source: wiktionary
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