What's the difference between seel and storm?

Seel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.
  • (v. i.) To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.
  • (n.) Alt. of Seeling
  • (n.) Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel".
  • (n.) Time; season; as, hay seel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freud observes rightly the ambivalence of seelings between father and son, mother and daughter and regards this as the essential factor for the character-formation of the developing child.

Storm


Definition:

  • (n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
  • (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
  • (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
  • (n.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
  • (v. i.) To raise a tempest.
  • (v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
  • (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (2) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
  • (5) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
  • (6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
  • (7) These are all steps we can take and we’re in a much better place to weather this storm because of the action we’ve taken over the last four years.
  • (8) We present a case of a natural death following thyroid storm in which marked thymic hyperplasia was present.
  • (9) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
  • (10) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
  • (11) If the extra heat stored in the oceans is released into the atmosphere, then the severity of storms will inevitably increase.
  • (12) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
  • (14) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (15) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
  • (16) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
  • (17) Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby.
  • (18) Eoin McLennan-Murray, a former president of the PGA, said in February 2014 that staff shortages and increasing numbers of incidents were creating a “perfect storm” that would destabilise prisons .
  • (19) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
  • (20) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.