What's the difference between storm and weather?

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.

Weather


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
  • (n.) Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
  • (n.) Storm; tempest.
  • (n.) A light rain; a shower.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.
  • (v. t.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
  • (v. t.) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
  • (v. i.) To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.
  • (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (2) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
  • (3) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
  • (4) The poor weather is coming at the worst possible time for retailers.
  • (5) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
  • (6) Dark Sky , for example, is a Kickstarter-funded iOS app that provides weather forecasting depending on your exact location.
  • (7) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
  • (8) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
  • (9) Weather data and breeding records for a Holstein herd of 1300 cows in Hawaii were evaluated to determine effects of climate on reproductive performance.
  • (10) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
  • (11) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
  • (12) The weather forecast in Warsaw is for some showers on Wednesday, though Roy Hodgson has expressed concern over the time it will take to repair the surface, which was relaid only last week at a cost of £115,000 and was criticised after last Friday's friendly against South Africa.
  • (13) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (14) Photograph: Kevin Rushby Moving on, I pull in at Muizenberg as the bad weather starts to clear and the wide beach fills with people.
  • (15) A Department for Transport spokesman said the money was available now, adding that it was to deliver 10 projects along the western route, including works at Cowley Bridge in Exeter, which would improve the railway's ability to withstand extreme weather.
  • (16) On the basis the statistical method of Friedman's test it is concluded that there is a significant correlation (p less than 0.05) between the weather types and the daily number of births.
  • (17) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
  • (18) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
  • (19) It is so sad, we don’t let her go out even if the weather is nice,” he says.
  • (20) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.