Tornado vs. Twister

Tornadonoun

(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

Tornadonoun

A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.

Tornadonoun

a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground

Tornadonoun

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted

Tornado

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. The windstorm is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which, from an observer looking down toward the surface of the earth, winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern.

Twisternoun

One who twists.

Twisternoun

One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

Twisternoun

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.

Twisternoun

A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.

Twisternoun

(colloquial) A tornado.

Twisternoun

(carpentry) A girder

Twisternoun

(dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

Twisternoun

A crook, a villain.

Twisternoun

The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

Twisternoun

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

Twisternoun

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.

Twisternoun

A girder.

Twisternoun

The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

Twisternoun

a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground

Twisternoun

small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts