meteorology Winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern.
Roget 265:
rest;
stillness
etc.
adj.;
quiescence;
stagnation,
stagnancy;
fixity,
immobility,
catalepsy;
indisturbance†;
quietism.
quiet,
tranquility,
calm;
repose
etc.
687;
peace;
dead calm,
anticyclone†;
statue-like repose;
silence
etc.
203;
not a breath of air,
not a mouse stirring;
sleep
etc.
(inactivity)
683.
pause,
lull
etc.
(cessation)
142;
stand still;
standing still
etc.
v.;
lock;
dead lock,
dead stop,
dead stand;
full stop;
fix;
embargo.
resting place;
gite [Fr.];
bivouac;
home
etc.
(abode)
189;
pillow
etc.
(support)
215;
haven
etc.
(refuge)
666;
goal
etc.
(arrival)
292.
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Roget 349:
wind,
draught,
flatus,
afflatus,
efflation†,
eluvium†;
air;
breath,
breath of air;
puff,
whiff,
zephyr;
blow,
breeze,
drift;
aura;
stream,
current,
jet stream;
undercurrent.
gust,
blast,
squall,
gale,
half a gale,
storm,
tempest,
hurricane,
whirlwind,
tornado,
samiel,
cyclone,
anticyclone,
typhoon;
simoon†,
simoom;
harmattan†,
monsoon,
trade wind,
sirocco,
mistral,
bise†,
tramontane,
levanter;
capful of wind;
fresh breeze,
stiff breeze;
keen blast;
blizzard,
barber [Can.],
candelia†,
chinook,
foehn,
khamsin†,
norther,
vendaval†,
wuther†.
windiness
etc.
adj.;
ventosity†;
rough weather,
dirty weather,
ugly weather,
stress of weather;
dirty sky,
mare's tail;
thick squall,
black squall,
white squall.
anemography†,
aerodynamics;
wind gauge,
weathercock,
vane,
weather-vane,
wind sock;
anemometer,
anemoscope†.
sufflation†,
insufflation†,
perflation†,
inflation,
afflation†;
blowing,
fanning
etc.
v.;
ventilation.
sneezing
etc.
v.;
errhine†;
sternutative†,
sternutatory†;
sternutation;
hiccup,
hiccough;
catching of the breath.
Eolus,
Boreas,
Zephyr,
cave of Eolus.
air pump,
air blower,
lungs,
bellows,
blowpipe,
fan,
ventilator,
punkah†;
branchiae†,
gills,
flabellum†,
vertilabrum†.
whiffle ball.
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