Look up: waterspout

1. Waterspout
   A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water and is connected to a cumuliform cloud. In the common form, it is a non-supercell tornado over water. While it is often weaker than most of its land counterparts, stronger versio...
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2. waterspout
   [n] - a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist 2. [n] - a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
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3. waterspout
   a phenomenon in which a whirling cloud descends towards the sea and draws up a funnel-shaped column of whirling spray HYDROGRAPHIC DICTIONARY Category: General
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4. Waterspout
   Wa'ter·spout` noun A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. » Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen mo...
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5. waterspout
   noun a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
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6. waterspout
   noun a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist
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7. Waterspout
   • (n.) A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
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8. waterspout
   a small-diameter column of rapidly swirling air in contact with a water surface. Waterspouts are almost always produced by a swiftly growing cumulus ...
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9. Waterspout
   A vortex of rapidly moving air over water that is associated with some thunderstorms.
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10. WATERSPOUT
    A small, weak tornado, which is not formed by a storm-scale rotation. It is generally weaker than a supercell tornado and is not associated with a wall cloud or mesocyclone. It may be observed beneath cumulonimbus or towering cumulus clouds and is the water equivalent of a landspout.
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11. waterspout
    waterspout, tornadooccurring at sea or over inland waters. The characteristic funnel-shaped cloud is formed at the base of a cumulus-type cloud and extends downward to the water surface, where it picks up spray. Waterspouts are most frequent in tropical regions, but are not uncommon in higher latitu...
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12. waterspout
    Funnel-shaped column of water and cloud that is drawn from the surface of the sea or a lake by a tornado
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