Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word HURRICANE

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Definitions of HURRICANE

1. A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
2. (meteorology) A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm.
3. (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
4. (figurative) A great forceful onrush.
5. A locality in Shire of Mareeba, Australia.
6. A unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, USA.
7. A unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, USA.
8. A unincorporated community in Crooked Creek Township, Bollinger County, Missouri, USA.
9. A unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, USA.
10. A unincorporated community in Madison County, North Carolina, USA.
11. A city in Washington County, Utah, USA.
12. A city in Putnam County, West Virginia, USA.
13. A unincorporated community in Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA.
14. (historical) A British fighter aircraft used during World War II, especially during the Battle of Britain.

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Examples of Using HURRICANE in a Sentence

• Hurricane Milton, a tropical cyclone that affected the Yucatán Peninsula and Florida in October 2024.
• 1622 – A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the galleon Atocha.
• From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people throughout the southern United States; the funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris and its satellite Dysnomia are discovered by a Palomar Observatory-based team, becoming the tenth planet to be discovered and breaking ground for the discovery of new dwarf planets such as Haumea and Makemake; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (designed to explore Mars) is launched from Cape Canaveral; the Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.
• The Times was founded by publisher John Walter (1738–1812) on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company for which he worked went bankrupt due to losses from a Jamaican hurricane.
• The loss may be widespread due to a natural disaster like an ice storm or hurricane, or local by being cut underground in construction or damaged in a thunderstorm or car accident.
• From left, clockwise: the passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; people gather at a Mayan temple to commemorate the end of 13th bʼakʼtun in the Mayan calendar on December 21, when it was predicted a doomsday event would occur; NASA's Curiosity Rover lands on the surface of Mars; the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting caused turmoil across the United States; K-pop artist Psy performs his hit single "Gangnam Style", which became a cultural phenomenon in 2012; the elementary particle, the Higgs boson, dubbed "The God Particle", is discovered by CERN and revolutionizes quantum physics; the 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, United Kingdom.
• After Hurricane Hattie in 1961 destroyed approximately 75% of the houses and business places in low-lying and coastal Belize City, the government proposed to encourage and promote the building of a new capital city.
• The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s which was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.
• Hurricane Lowell (disambiguation), the name given to three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
• It was intended to be a medium-high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane, but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
• On August 13, 2004, Charlotte County, Hurricane Charley came ashore near Port Charlotte as a Category 4 hurricane.
• In 2018, Category 5 Hurricane Michael made landfall just miles north of the county line in Mexico Beach, severely damaging large parts of the region and its timber and shellfish industries.
• Due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the team temporarily relocated to Oklahoma City, where they spent two seasons as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets before returning to New Orleans for the 2007–08 season.
• The county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic and again in October 1995 due to Hurricane Opal.
• Steeplechase Pier, a former Atlantic City, New Jersey, Boardwalk attraction destroyed in the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane.
• National Steel Car had produced Avro Anson trainers, Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricane fighters and Westland Lysander army cooperation aircraft.
• The highway functions as one of the few freeway hurricane evacuation routes for the southern Texas coast.
• On the night of August 19–20, 1969, Nelson County was struck by disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Camille.
• The county is divided into seven supervisor districts: Garden, Hurricane, Knox, North Grundy, Prater, Rock Lick, and South Grundy.
• A contemporary of the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, it was the first single-seat, twin-engined, cannon-armed fighter of the Royal Air Force.

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