Tempest vs. Storm

Tempestnoun

A storm, especially one with severe winds.

Tempestnoun

Any violent tumult or commotion.

Tempestnoun

(obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

Tempestverb

To storm.

Tempestverb

To disturb, as by a tempest.

Tempestnoun

An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

Tempestnoun

Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

Tempestnoun

A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

Tempestverb

To disturb as by a tempest.

Tempestverb

To storm.

Tempestnoun

a violent commotion or disturbance;

Tempestnoun

(literary) a violent wind;

Stormnoun

Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.

Stormnoun

A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.

Stormnoun

(meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).

Stormnoun

(military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.

Stormverb

To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.

Stormverb

(intransitive) To rage or fume; to be in a violent temper.

Stormverb

(transitive) To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces.

Stormverb

(impersonal) To have the weather be violent, with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.

Stormnoun

A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.

Stormnoun

A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.

Stormnoun

A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.

Stormnoun

A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.

Stormverb

To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.

Stormverb

To raise a tempest.

Stormverb

To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; - used impersonally; as, it storms.

Stormverb

To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

Stormnoun

a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening

Stormnoun

a violent commotion or disturbance;

Stormnoun

a direct and violent assault on a stronghold

Stormverb

behave violently, as if in state of a great anger

Stormverb

take by force;

Stormverb

rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning;

Stormverb

blow hard;

Stormverb

attack by storm; attack suddenly

Storm

A storm is any disturbed state of an environment or in an astronomical body's atmosphere especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation (snowstorm, rainstorm), heavy freezing rain (ice storm), strong winds (tropical cyclone, windstorm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere as in a dust storm, blizzard, sandstorm, etc.