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# whirlwind

«whirlwind» in Mova's school dictionary: **a column of air that spins very fast, like a small tornado** — 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 whirlwind, whirlwinds); adjective-like before a noun (a whirlwind tour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A whirlwind is a column of air that spins very fast, like a small tornado. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#m1)

2) A whirlwind of activity is a lot of things happening very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#m2)

3) A whirlwind trip or romance is one that is very quick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science it is a weather word; in stories and everyday life it describes busy, rushed or exciting times. Phrases: a whirlwind of, whirlwind tour, like a whirlwind.

### examples

- A whirlwind picked up the leaves and spun them round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x1)
- The day was a whirlwind of parties and presents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x2)
- She came into the room like a whirlwind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x3)
- We had a whirlwind tour of London in one day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x4)
- Dust whirlwinds called dust devils form on hot days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x5)
- The last week of term is always a whirlwind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x6)
- Again there arose a stormcloud with whirlwind and lightning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whirlwind/#x7)

### note

Countable. Made from whirl (spin) + wind. Similar weather words: tornado, cyclone, dust devil (smaller whirlwind).

### In the corpora

- [As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.417/)
- [but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they have not known.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.99/)
- [Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.955/)
- [The voice of Thy thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1324/)
- [When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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