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PRONUNCIATION OF WIND SURGE

wind surge  [wɪnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIND SURGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wind surge is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WIND SURGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wind surge in the English dictionary

The definition of wind surge in the dictionary is a wind-induced rise in the water level at the coast or the shore of an inland expanse of water. It has a definite frequency and if this is close to the tidal frequency serious flooding can result.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WIND SURGE


behind
bɪˈhaɪnd
blind
blaɪnd
combined
kəmˈbaɪnd
contained
kənˈteɪnd
determined
dɪˈtɜːmɪnd
find
faɪnd
Ind
ɪnd
kind
kaɪnd
lined
ˈlaɪnd
mind
maɪnd
one-of-a-kind
ˌwʌnəvəˈkaɪnd
pinned
pɪnd
remind
rɪˈmaɪnd
Sind
sɪnd
stained
steɪnd
sustained
səˈsteɪnd
tinned
tɪnd
trained
treɪnd
undefined
ˌʌndɪˈfaɪnd
wind
wɪnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIND SURGE

wind deflector
wind down
wind farm
wind gap
wind gauge
wind generator
wind harp
wind instrument
wind machine
wind power
Wind River Range
wind rose
wind scale
wind shake
wind shear
wind sleeve
wind tee
wind tunnel
wind up
wind vane

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIND SURGE

demiurge
dramaturge
expurge
glurge
gurge
overurge
power surge
Pride´s Purge
purge
resurge
reurge
scourge
sex urge
splurge
spurge
surge
thaumaturge
upsurge
urge

Synonyms and antonyms of wind surge in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wind surge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIND SURGE

Find out the translation of wind surge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wind surge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wind surge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

风激增
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oleada de viento
570 millions of speakers

English

wind surge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हवा उछाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ارتفاع الرياح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ветер всплеск
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aumento vento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বায়ু ঢল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vent poussée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lonjakan angin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Windstoß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

風のサージ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바람 서지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angin surge
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tăng gió
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காற்று எழுச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वारा लाट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Rüzgar dalgalanma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ondata di vento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wiatr wzrost
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вітер сплеск
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

val de vânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κύμα άνεμος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wind oplewing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vind surge
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vinden surge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wind surge

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIND SURGE»

The term «wind surge» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.597 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WIND SURGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wind surge» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wind surge» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wind surge

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIND SURGE»

Discover the use of wind surge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wind surge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Coastal Processes II
The data show that the height of wind surge is less around high water, though. To determine the ratio between wind surge height around low water and around high water the relations between wind surge, the respective wind speed and tide  ...
G. Benassai, C. A. Brebbia, G. R. Rodríguez, 2011
2
Canal navigation: on the resistance of water to the passage ...
6 99 99 99 161 16 99 99 7 50 7.65 202.35 99 99 99 99 With the wind, surge the same. 7 99 9i 99 16 16 16 99 99 7 29 8.01 264.30 99 99 99 99 Against the wind, the surge a little increased. 8 99 99 99 99 jj 99 99 99 6 28 9.27 272.20 99 99 99 ...
Sir John Benjamin Macneill, 1833
3
Ground Anchors and Anchored Structures
East wind surge level U 75m 2<.0 5 2^ North wind surge! Levels 0f U 7j~East wind surge ~ applied jack L 3 Faiture loads \ Anchor head Load cells ~2. Jack -^x ~- 7/18 mm Dyform 0 Scate.m' 3 strand tendon tSechon AA) Fig. 10-8 Test section ; ...
‎1991
4
Remarks on Canal Navigation, Illustrative of the Advantages ...
With the wind, surge the «ame. Against the wind, the surge a little increased. With the wind, surge the same. No sensible difference in snrge. Wind nearly subsided — surge the same. Rather more surge at stern. In this experiment the surge ...
Sir William Fairbairn, 1831
5
Evaluation of the FEMA Model for Estimating Potential ...
These results indicate that: (l) the maximum wind surge potential for both FEMA and SLOSH exceeds that of NWS 23 for all combinations of R and Vf , (2) the maximum wind surge potential for FEMA is closest to that for NWS 23 for the slowest ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Coastal Flooding From Hurricanes, 1983
6
High Resolution Simulations of the Microphysics and ...
Unlike Frank and Roundy (2006), Gray (1995) argued that the TC genesis stage is not a gradual process, but rather an impulsive two-stage process: A first wind surge/shift in surface winds in the tropics, allows the formation of mesoscale ...
Alexandre Olivier Fierro, 2007
7
Predicting Storm Surges: Chaos, Computational Intelligence, ...
A recent development has been the ensemble prediction for wind surge, where the 50 scenarios of the ECMWF ensemble prediction are used as input for a wind surge model. The probabilistic outcome of this model has proved very useful for ...
Michael Siek, 2011
8
Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
Swell waves move outward from the storm centre, perhaps three to four times faster than the storm itself, and can act Table 9.2 The Saffir/Simpson hurricane scale Scale Central Wind- Surge Damage pressure speed (m) (mb) (m s-1) 1 > 980 ...
Keith Smith, 2013
9
Four Years of ERA-40 Vorticity Maxima Tracks
trade or westerly wind surge events as a "catalyst" for western North Pacific ( WPAC) cyclogenesis. The cyclonic vorticity concentration occurs up to 8 degrees from the cloud cluster before genesis and within 5 degrees during genesis.
Brandon W. Kerns, 2008
10
Aeronomy of the Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere
The dynamo equations in Blanc and Richmond show that an equatorward wind in the magnetic frame drives an eastward directed zonal Pedersen current at midlati- tudes. In both cases, the electrodynamic response is to the wind surge, which ...
Mangalathayil Ali Abdu, Dora Pancheva, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIND SURGE»

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1
Wind Surge Saps Bondholder Hope for Energy Future Payout
Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- For the first time, Texas is connecting most of its wind farms to its largest cities. That's bringing cheap electricity into the service area of ... «Bloomberg, Aug 13»

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