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# storm

«storm» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a storm, storms); verb (storm, storms, stormed, storming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#m1)

2) A sudden show of strong feeling: a storm of clapping, a storm of anger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#m2)

3) Verb: to go somewhere quickly and angrily: «She stormed out of the room». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#m3)

4) Verb: to attack a place suddenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: types of storms — thunderstorms, hurricanes (Atlantic), cyclones (Australia, Indian Ocean), typhoons (Pacific), tornadoes, blizzards (snowstorms), dust storms. In safety: during a storm stay indoors, away from windows and water; follow weather warnings; don't shelter under trees. In stories a storm often brings danger or matches a character's anger. Phrases: thunderstorm, snowstorm, the eye of the storm, storm clouds, brainstorm, take by storm, a storm in a teacup.

### examples

- A big storm is coming tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x1)
- The storm knocked down a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x2)
- Stay indoors during a thunderstorm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x3)
- We heard thunder and saw lightning in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x4)
- He stormed off in a temper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x5)
- The ship was lost in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x6)
- Let's brainstorm ideas for our story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x7)
- It was a storm in a teacup — a big fuss about nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x8)
- There arose a very terrible storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/#x9)

### note

Countable: storms. «Stormy» = with storms. «Brainstorm» = to think of many ideas quickly. The calm centre of a hurricane is called the eye of the storm.

### In the corpora

- [An old Scandinavian folk story said lemmings fell from the sky in storms, because they appeared so suddenly in boom years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/13/)
- [People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/7/)
- [Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/4/)
- [The safest place in a tornado is a basement or storm shelter, or an inside room on the lowest floor with no windows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/8/)
- [A mobile home or a car is not safe in a tornado; you go to a strong building or storm shelter nearby.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «storm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.