Waterspout

/ˈwɔ.təɹ spaʊt/

Synonyms for "waterspout" (47 found)

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Closest matches (10)

Strong matches (14)

Noun(3 words)
downpourmarine tornadopelter

Related words (23)

Noun(4 words)
sea tornadosoakertornadic waterspouttorrent

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

7 entries
atmospheric phenomenonconduitrainrainfalltornadotwisterweather phenomenon

More specific

2 entries
fair weather waterspouttornadic waterspout

Collocations

6 entries
fair weather waterspoutmarine tornadosea waterspouttornadic waterspouttornado over waterwaterspout formation

Inflections

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A huge waterspout has formed.

Source: tatoeba (2019089)

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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