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单词 typhoon
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Definition of typhoon in English:

typhoon

noun tʌɪˈfuːntaɪˈfun
  • A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.

    (印度洋及西太平洋的)台风

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He complained that the community flooded every time a typhoon or tropical storm swept through Taoyuan.
    • In other parts of the world, the same types of storms are called typhoons or cyclones.
    • In the Pacific they are known as typhoons, in the Indian Ocean as cyclones.
    • The Far East, Australasia and the Indian Ocean have their fair share of typhoons and monsoons.
    • Summer brings warm winds from the South Pacific, and typhoons, especially to the southern regions of the country.
    • You have a lot of coastal dwellers particularly in the north, where cyclones and even typhoons, hurricanes are a problem, and we warmer waters are going to generate more intense cyclones.
    • It is the super-cells within the tropical cyclones, such as hurricanes or typhoons that produce very heavy downpours as these storms start to move inland.
    • Other great winds like hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, are essentially just high winds.
    • Many lives in Pacific states have been spared from earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and hurricanes in the last 50 years or so thanks to the system.
    • There has been an observed and recorded link between the sea surface temperature and the frequency and intensity of tropical storms, typhoons and hurricanes.
    • Hurricanes, typhoons and tornados are commonplace.
    • Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, lightning storms, nothing was a match for what was experienced almost every night in our house.
    • Severe tropical cyclones correspond to the hurricanes or typhoons of other parts of the world.
    • Records for heavy rain, flooding, hurricanes and typhoons as well as drought and dust storms are increasingly being broken.
    • The archives show names for typhoons in the western Pacific all of the way back to 1945.
    • Kobayashi said last month's deadly earthquake in the central region of Niigata and typhoons that hit western provinces would have dampened the figures.
    • Each year, the tropics are battered by up to 40 hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, while floods and landslides occur everywhere in numbers too great to keep track of.
    • They include delays caused by storms, typhoons and snowfall.
    • Well, there have been strong hurricanes and cyclones and typhoons in other parts of the world this year.
    • Hurricanes, like their regional cousin a typhoon, both come from the family of tropical cyclones.
    Synonyms
    cyclone, tropical storm, storm, tornado, hurricane, windstorm, whirlwind
    North American informal twister

Derivatives

  • typhonic

  • adjective tʌɪˈfɒnɪk
    • They said it's a "typhonic" wind.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Unless there is a major melt or typhonic rainstorm you should be able to ford it on foot.
      • The runoff from these typhonic rains, when added to rivers already swollen by monsoon rains, creates floods.

Origin

Late 16th century: partly via Portuguese from Arabic ṭūfān (perhaps from Greek tuphōn 'whirlwind'); reinforced by Chinese dialect tai fung 'big wind'.

  • The fierce tropical storm brings together two sources, Arabic tūfān, which may be from Greek tuphōn ‘whirlwind’, and Chinese dialect tai fung ‘big wind’. The Portuguese picked up the first in the Indian oceans, while merchants and sailors in the China seas would have encountered the Chinese expression. A wide variety of spellings appeared before the word finally settled down into typhoon in the 19th century. See also tornado, tsunami

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, Walloon

Definition of typhoon in US English:

typhoon

nountīˈfo͞ontaɪˈfun
  • A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.

    (印度洋及西太平洋的)台风

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Severe tropical cyclones correspond to the hurricanes or typhoons of other parts of the world.
    • Hurricanes, like their regional cousin a typhoon, both come from the family of tropical cyclones.
    • Each year, the tropics are battered by up to 40 hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, while floods and landslides occur everywhere in numbers too great to keep track of.
    • Summer brings warm winds from the South Pacific, and typhoons, especially to the southern regions of the country.
    • It is the super-cells within the tropical cyclones, such as hurricanes or typhoons that produce very heavy downpours as these storms start to move inland.
    • In the Pacific they are known as typhoons, in the Indian Ocean as cyclones.
    • There has been an observed and recorded link between the sea surface temperature and the frequency and intensity of tropical storms, typhoons and hurricanes.
    • Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, lightning storms, nothing was a match for what was experienced almost every night in our house.
    • Kobayashi said last month's deadly earthquake in the central region of Niigata and typhoons that hit western provinces would have dampened the figures.
    • Records for heavy rain, flooding, hurricanes and typhoons as well as drought and dust storms are increasingly being broken.
    • The Far East, Australasia and the Indian Ocean have their fair share of typhoons and monsoons.
    • Well, there have been strong hurricanes and cyclones and typhoons in other parts of the world this year.
    • Other great winds like hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, are essentially just high winds.
    • Hurricanes, typhoons and tornados are commonplace.
    • Many lives in Pacific states have been spared from earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and hurricanes in the last 50 years or so thanks to the system.
    • He complained that the community flooded every time a typhoon or tropical storm swept through Taoyuan.
    • The archives show names for typhoons in the western Pacific all of the way back to 1945.
    • They include delays caused by storms, typhoons and snowfall.
    • In other parts of the world, the same types of storms are called typhoons or cyclones.
    • You have a lot of coastal dwellers particularly in the north, where cyclones and even typhoons, hurricanes are a problem, and we warmer waters are going to generate more intense cyclones.
    Synonyms
    cyclone, tropical storm, storm, tornado, hurricane, windstorm, whirlwind

Origin

Late 16th century: partly via Portuguese from Arabic ṭūfān (perhaps from Greek tuphōn ‘whirlwind’); reinforced by Chinese dialect tai fung ‘big wind’.

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