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# typhoon

«typhoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very strong storm with heavy rain and very fast winds…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (typhoon, typhoons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A typhoon is a very strong storm with heavy rain and very fast winds that starts over the warm western Pacific Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#m1)

2) The same kind of storm is called a hurricane in the Atlantic and a cyclone near Australia and India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a word of the story; things lost or damaged in a storm are usually taken away from the total; wind speeds. Science and geography: typhoons form over warm seas; they hit countries like the Philippines, Japan and China. Safety: listen to warnings, stay indoors, keep away from windows and the sea.

### examples

- The typhoon knocked down 12 trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x1)
- 3 typhoons hit the island this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x2)
- After the typhoon, only 40 of 60 houses had power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x3)
- The typhoon winds blew at 150 km an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x4)
- Schools closed because a typhoon was coming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x5)
- During a typhoon, stay inside and away from windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x6)
- A typhoon is the same kind of storm as a hurricane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/typhoon/#x7)

### note

Countable: a typhoon, typhoons. A story word; what the typhoon destroyed is usually taken away from the total. Trap: typhoon, hurricane and cyclone are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans; a tornado is a different, smaller whirlwind over land.

### Trees and pragmatics

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