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1. (n.) tempest
a violent windstorm, esp. one with rain.
2. tempest
a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult.
3. (v.t.) tempest
to affect by a tempest; disturb violently.
Etymology: (1200–50; ME tempeste < OF < VL *tempesta, for L tempestās season, weather, storm =tempes- (var. s. of tempus time) +-tās -ty2)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) storm, tempest
a violent commotion or disturbance
"the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
2. (noun) tempest
(literary) a violent wind
"a tempest swept over the island"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) tempest
an extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm
2. (noun) tempest
fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions
3. (noun) tempest
a fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4
4. (verb) tempest
to disturb as by a tempest
5. (verb) tempest
to storm
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Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms |
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1. tempest
An unclassified term referring to technical investigations for compromising emanations from electrically operated information processing equipment; these
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Sense: a violent storm, with very strong winds
A tempest arose and they were drowned at sea.
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 Afrikaans: storm |
 Arabic: عاصِفَه |
 Bulgarian: силна буря |
 Brazilian: tempestade |
 Czech: bouře |
 German: der Sturm |
 Danish: storm |
 Greek: καταιγίδα |
 Spanish: tempestad, tormenta |
 Estonian: maru, raju |
 Farsi: توفان |
 Finnish: rajumyrsky |
 French: tempête |
 Hebrew: סְעָרָה |
 Hindi: आधी |
 Croatian: oluja |
 Hungarian: vihar |
 Indonesian: badai |
 Icelandic: óveður, ofviðri |
 Italian: tempesta |
 Japanese: 大嵐 |
 Korean: 사나운 비바람 |
 Lithuanian: audra |
 Latvian: vētra |
 Malay: ribut kencang |
 Dutch: storm |
 Norwegian: uvær, storm |
 Polish: burza |
 Portuguese: tempestade |
 Romanian: furtună |
 Russian: буря |
 Slovak: búrka |
 Slovenian: nevihta |
 Serbian: bura |
 Swedish: storm, oväder |
 Thai: พายุ (หิมะ, ลูกเห็บฯลฯ) |
 Turkish: şiddetli fırtına, bora |
 Taiwanese: 暴風雨 |
 Ukrainian: буря |
 Urdu: طوفان، آندھي |
 Vietnamese: cơn bão lớn |
 Chinese: 大风暴，暴风雨 |
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