(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
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the front of an advancing mass of colder air
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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or g…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same eithe…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time o…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storm…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.Face to face, or front to front; facing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.To march back, or to march in reversed order.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade un…
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