storm

«storm» in Mova's school dictionary: Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a storm, storms); verb (storm, storms, stormed, storming)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning. tree →

2) A sudden show of strong feeling: a storm of clapping, a storm of anger. tree →

3) Verb: to go somewhere quickly and angrily: «She stormed out of the room». tree →

4) Verb: to attack a place suddenly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography: types of storms — thunderstorms, hurricanes (Atlantic), cyclones (Australia, Indian Ocean), typhoons (Pacific), tornadoes, blizzards (snowstorms), dust storms. In safety: during a storm stay indoors, away from windows and water; follow weather warnings; don't shelter under trees. In stories a storm often brings danger or matches a character's anger. Phrases: thunderstorm, snowstorm, the eye of the storm, storm clouds, brainstorm, take by storm, a storm in a teacup.

examples

• A big storm is coming tonight. tree →
• The storm knocked down a tree. tree →
• Stay indoors during a thunderstorm. tree →
• We heard thunder and saw lightning in the storm. tree →
• He stormed off in a temper. tree →
• The ship was lost in the storm. tree →
• Let's brainstorm ideas for our story. tree →
• It was a storm in a teacup — a big fuss about nothing. tree →
• There arose a very terrible storm. tree →

note

Countable: storms. «Stormy» = with storms. «Brainstorm» = to think of many ideas quickly. The calm centre of a hurricane is called the eye of the storm.

In the corpora

• An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.
• People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017.
• Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners.
• The safest place in a tornado is a basement or storm shelter, or an inside room on the lowest floor with no windows.
• A mobile home or a car is not safe in a tornado; you go to a strong building or storm shelter nearby.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «storm» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.